New! Doorways of Deerfield features 16 historic houses and buildings throught the village of Old Deerfield. Under each doorway is the name of the house or building. Photographer Dan Dougherty. Poster comes rolled ready for you to frame. 18” x 24”
WGBY Appraisal Fair 2010
September 26, 2010
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Deerfield Community Center (formerly White Church Community Center)
Do you like to watch Antiques Roadshow®? Then be sure to take part in this special fundraiser to support our local PBS station, WGBY, and gain access to experts from the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) as they provide verbal evaluations of your antiques. Pre-registration required. For tickets and information, please call WGBY at 800-781-9429, or log on to www.wgby.org.
Registration Contact: WGBY
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Historic Deerfield welcomes all interested in learning more about the stories of 1704 to participate in a one-day symposium on March 3, 2012, that will focus on what we know about the Deerfield Raid. Our program will bring together scholars with museum staff and interested public to investigate the context of the Raid itself and its outcomes.
In 2012, the Historic Deerfield Open Hearth Cooking Program will enter its 25th year of service! To celebrate this special occasion, scholars and experts will come together on three Sundays this winter to delve into the savory and seductive world of food and gardening in a winter lecture series titled “Gathering, Gardening, Preserving: Exploring Local Food in New England.”
Programs
The Flynt Center of Early New England Life is open Saturdays and Sundays, December 3, 2011–April 8, 2012, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (except December 24-25). Historic Deerfield’s museum houses are closed to the public during the winter months (December–mid-April), although pre-arranged tours-by-appointment, school tours and group tours can still be scheduled. For more information, please call (413) 775-7132 or e-mail lmiskinis [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org. The museum will reopen for the 2012 season on Saturday, April 14.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
The second lecture in the 2012 Winter lecture series will be delivered by John Forti on February 26. Forti is Curator of Historic Gardens and Landscapes at Strawbery Banke Museum, and co-author of American Household Botany: A History of Useful Plants, 1620-1900.
Historic Deerfield welcomes all interested in learning more about the stories of 1704 to participate in a one-day symposium on March 3, 2012, that will focus on what we know about the Deerfield Raid. Our program will bring together scholars with museum staff and interested public to investigate the context of the Raid itself and its outcomes. Click here to view the agenda.
ick up a free copy of this new walking tour aimed at interpreting village sites connected to the Deerfield Raid of 1704 at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life. At 4:30 p.m. the public is invited to attend a free scholarly talk by Kevin Sweeney, Professor of History at Amherst College, entitled “The 1704 Deerfield Raid and Its Aftermath.” Pre-registration for this talk is required.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
Sandra L. Oliver will present the third and final lecture, “Banbury, Succotash, and Bannocks: Transplants, Natives, and Universals in New England Cookery,” closing out the 2012 Winter Lecture Series. Oliver is an Independent Food Historian, and author of Food in Colonial and Federal America.
Historic Deerfield will offer instruction in open hearth cooking for those who are interested in historic foodways and hearth management. A series of seven one-day classes has been scheduled for Saturdays in February and March 2012. For program information, please contact Claire Carlson at ccarlson [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7217.
In Spring 2012, Amanda Lange, Curatorial Department Chair and Curator of Historic Interiors at Historic Deerfield, will offer a three-week course introducing the new collector, student, or the curious to the fascinating area of 18th-century English earthenwares and stonewares.
Exhibitions
Be one of the first to visit this new exhibition features objects drawn from Historic Deerfield’s collection, many with local histories. On view through February 17, 2013.
Examine one of the finest collections of early American textiles and costumes ever assembled!
Explore a dazzling array of masterworks by famous American cabinetmakers including Duncan Phyfe and Honoré Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend. Included with general admission.
View 75 powder horns that offer a wealth of documentary information about the original owners and carvers who created them.
Explore over 20 highlights from Historic Deerfield’s collection ranging from well-loved favorites and overlooked gems to recent acquisitions and objects with new stories to tell. Included with general admission.
Be one of the first to visit this new exhibition features objects drawn from Historic Deerfield’s collection, many with local histories. On view through February 17, 2013.
Museum Store
Support Historic Deerfield with this 100% cotton twill cap.
Hand hooked wool rug depicting 7 of our village buildings in Springtime. Taken from a painting by Anne Bell Robb, a MA artist. 2’ x 3’.
80 pages of full color photos by Richard Cheek celebrating the four seasons in the historic village.
