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Nov
12
TO Jan 4
Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real
November 12, 2025 - 9:30 AM - January 4, 2026 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
This exhibition will explore the enduring interest in clothing our bodies to achieve fashionable shapes. It will feature twenty-five ensembles from the 18th to 21st centuries drawn predominantly from Historic Deerfield’s renowned clothing collection. Displayed along with the historical garments will be the understructures – stays, corsets, hoops skirts, and bustles – that helped shape, exaggerate, or reduce bodies to fit fashionable ideals.
Nov
12
TO Jan 4
Envisioning America: Deerfield Academy’s Collection of Paintings and Drawings
November 12, 2025 - 9:30 AM - January 4, 2026 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school located in Old Deerfield, possesses a rich collection of American art, ranging from colonial American portraiture to early 20th-century modernism. This exhibition highlights significant works of art from the Academy’s collection, many of which have not been on public view for decades.
Dec
6
TO Jan 12
Wreath Walk
December 6, 2025 - 9:00 AM - January 12, 2026 - 5:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
Take a walk, enjoy the wreaths! If you are visiting Historic Deerfield in December, we invite you to take the Deerfield Wreath Walk! For 25 years, volunteers have gathered at Historic Deerfield to make beautiful, natural holiday wreaths for the doors of the historic houses of Deerfield. This year, more than 60 volunteers will create […]
Dec
13
Winter Frolic 2025
December 13, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Come learn English country dancing with local ensemble Merry Company. Make an apple pomander and a rolled beeswax candle to take home, have fun stringing popcorn and cranberry garlands, and help our hearth cook make a recipe. Sip hot apple cider, play board games, and have fun playing dress up in old fashioned costumes.
Dec
14
Meet Author Tinky Weisblat
December 14, 2025 - 1:00 PM - 3:00 PMHistoric Deerfield Store (+ Google Map)
Come to our store and meet Tinky Weisblat, author of wonderful cookbooks such as Love, Laughter, and Rhubarb and The Pudding Hollow Cookbook! Chat with Tinky, get your books autographed, and check out the holiday sales on December 14 from 1–3 p.m. at the Historic Deerfield Gift Shop and Bookstore! Visit historicdeerfieldstore.com for store hours […]
Jan
17
Candlelight Tavern Night
January 17, 2026 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
Step back in time for a candlelit evening of fun and frivolity in the historic 1786 Hall Tavern!
Jan
25
TO Mar 29
Free Winter Lecture Series: “Expansive Histories of the American Revolution”
January 25, 2026 - 2:00 PM - March 29, 2026 - 3:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
In observance of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, we invite you to tune in to our free, virtual Winter Lecture Series, featuring three distinguished scholars. This series will explore the American Revolution not just as a political conflict, but as a broad and complex global event that profoundly shaped the lives of everyone […]
Feb
16
TO Feb 20
Fun in February: School Vacation Week at Historic Deerfield
February 16, 2026 - 10:00 AM - February 20, 2026 - 3:00 PMHistory Workshop (+ Google Map)
February 19th -24th, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day.
Come have fun at the History Workshop during February Vacation Week! Play historical tavern and schoolyard games. Color and fold a puzzle purse and send a secret message. Pretend to cook a meal on a hearth in our play kitchen. Write in cursive or draw a picture with a quill pen and ink. Dress up, read a book, card wool, or weave on a loom. There will be lots of activities to explore!
Feb
21
Candlelight Tavern Night
February 21, 2026 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
Step back in time for a candlelit evening of fun and frivolity in the historic 1786 Hall Tavern!
Mar
7
Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Basics From Hearth to Table
March 7, 2026 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
For the beginner, try a range of hearth cooking techniques, recipes, and equipment. Learn how to roast chicken in a reflector oven, boil and mash root vegetables, and bake soft gingerbread and bird’s nest pudding in bake kettles.
Mar
14
Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Baking in the Beehive Oven
March 14, 2026 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Learn how to fire and heat the oven for baking. Pie is on the menu! Prepare sweet and savory pies to bake when the oven is ready.
Mar
21
Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Spring Cooking, Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
March 21, 2026 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
In the past, the end of winter meant using up what was left of stored food like pumpkins, potatoes, apples, and salted meat and fish. A Deerfield diarist called them “savers.” The menu includes dried apple pie, fish chowder, pickled beets, and crookneck squash pudding.
Mar
27
TO Mar 29
3-Day Wood Identification Workshop with Randy Wilkinson
March 27, 2026 - 9:00 AM - March 29, 2026 - 2:00 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
We are pleased to share this exciting, intensive educational program designed to appeal to participants with an interest in American decorative arts—including collectors, appraisers, curators, furniture enthusiasts, or anyone seeking in-depth knowledge. This focused, three-day program, running March 27–29, 2026 at the Deerfield Community Center is designed to familiarize participants with the physical properties of […]
Mar
28
Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Supper at Hall Tavern (Special Evening Workshop)
March 28, 2026 - 3:00 PM - 7:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Prepare hearty tavern fare including roast pork, winter vegetable soup, apple pie, and long rolls with butter. While the food is cooking, play some board games and nine pins in the tap room.
Apr
18
TO Feb 5
Picturing the Revolution
April 18, 2026 - 9:30 AM - February 5, 2027 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
Throughout the American War for Independence, prints and drawings in the form of portraits, maps, satires, newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, battle plans, ceramics, and powder horns allowed many Euro-Americans—both those engaged in the conflict and those far removed from it—to envisage, record, and comment on the momentous events unfolding in British North America. Using Historic Deerfield’s […]