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Special & Planned Gifts
Join those making special purpose and planned gifts!
Special Purpose Gifts
In addition to making unrestricted gifts through the Friends of Historic Deerfield, the Asher Benjamin Society, or the Annual Fund, many contributors support designated projects or programs, such as the development of exhibitions or ongoing preservation of a particular historic property, while others establish named endowment funds to sustain a particular aspect of our work over the long term.
Tribute Gifts
Gifts to Historic Deerfield, whether unrestricted or designated, are often made to honor a family member, friend, or mentor, as well as to mark significant life events and achievements. Note that Deerfield Descendants often choose tribute gifts to honor the memory of ancestors.
Planned Gifts
Members of the Ebenezer and Abigail Wells Society have made “planned” or deferred gifts to Historic Deerfield as part of their financial and estate planning. Such contributions – whether made as a revocable provision in a will or through an irrevocable contract or trust instrument – often help donors make very substantial gifts from assets without sacrificing the income-producing potential of those assets during life.
By making a bequest as a provision of your will, or a beneficiary designation (for example, with a life insurance policy), you direct some portion of your estate to Historic Deerfield (note that such provisions or designations can be changed).
With a Charitable Gift Annuity or the several forms of Charitable Remainder Trust, you contribute cash or stock (and in some cases, real estate) for the benefit of Historic Deerfield in return for annual income for yourself or others you designate as annuitants or income beneficiaries.
Through a Charitable Lead Trust, you contribute the income from assets placed in trust to Historic Deerfield for a specified term of years, requiring that the assets remaining in the trust be returned to you, or passed on to heirs, at the end of the term specified.
Please contact David Barclay, Director of Development, at leadershipgift [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org or 413-775-7177 to discuss Special Purpose, Tribute, and/or Planned Gifts.
All gifts to Historic Deerfield are tax deductible to the extent allowed by the Internal Revenue Code.
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News
The 2012 summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North,” is jointly sponsored by Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA). All presentations are free and open to the public.
Historic Deerfield museum is proud to announce the recipients of its annual awards: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Henry “Hank” and Mary Flynt, Roger and Meredith Parsons, and Kevin Sweeney.
Join us for a three-day conference titled “The Irish in New England,” at Historic Deerfield June 22-24. Enjoy seventeen lectures exploring topics from the early eighteenth century to about the middle of the twentieth. Register online or download a registration form at http://www.historic-deerfield.org/Dublin-seminar
Programs
Join us to have fun practicing with a quill pen, learn (or re-learn) the art of cursive handwriting, and write a letter to someone special. Participants should bring the address of a special recipient so they can write and send a special hand-crafted letter. Included with general admission.
In recognition of National Preservation Month, Historic Deerfield will offer new architectural walking tours led by experienced Guides focused on building exteriors along our mile-long street that retains aspects of the built environment spanning the last 300 years.
In 2012, the Historic Deerfield Open Hearth Cooking Program enters its 25th year of service! To celebrate this special occasion, come and watch open hearth cooks prepare “celebratory” food and beverage. Included with general admission.
Learn about heirloom vegetables and have fun outdoors as you help us plant and tend the History Workshop Garden. Included with general admission.
Let us help you say “Thank You” to all the great fathers, grandfathers (even great grandfathers!) out there who deserve a special treat on Father’s Day.
This summer we will explore the ancient and versatile flax plant and its many uses. Try your hand at braking, scutching and hetcheling last summer’s crop and learn about all the steps and tools involved in dressing flax¾or turning it into cloth. Make paper from flax fibers, and handcraft a journal to take home. Included with general admission.
See demonstrations of flax dressing with Gina Gerhard. Included with general admission.
Join an open hearth cook to learn about herbs and seasonal vegetables that were used for both food and flavor in the past. Included with general admission.
Joanne Pope Melish, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky, will give the first of the three lectures in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North”on July 12.
The second lecture in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North” will feature Alexandra Chan, Site Archaeologist, co-presenting with Thomas Lincoln, Executive Director, both from the Royall House and Slave Quarters, Isaac Royall House Museum, Medford, Mass. on July 19.
Warren R. Perry, Professor of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University and Archaeological Director of The Archaeology Laboratory for African and African Diaspora Studies, will deliver the lecture in the summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North” on July 26.
See historic trades demonstrations of tailoring with Henry Cooke. Included with general admission.
See letterpress printing demonstrations with Carl Darrow at the John Wilson Printing Office. Included with general admission.
Join Historic Deerfield President Philip Zea on a trip through Pennsylvania and Delaware to view remarkable art, antiques, and exquisite gardens. Tour three premier museums and two amazing private antiques collections, both featured in Antiques and Fine Art Magazine. Click here for a full itinerary and details. For information and registration, please call 413-775-7176 or membership [at] historic-deerfield [dot] org.
Exhibitions
Examine one of the finest collections of early American textiles and costumes ever assembled!
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.
View 75 powder horns that offer a wealth of documentary information about the original owners and carvers who created them.
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.
Museum Store
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”
80 pages of full color photos by Richard Cheek celebrating the four seasons in the historic village.
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’.
