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Jan
17
Candlelight Tavern Night
January 17, 2026 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
This event is sold out.
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)
Play historical tavern and schoolyard games. Pretend to cook a meal on a hearth in our play kitchen. Dress up, read a book, 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)
This event is sold out.
Mar
7
Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Basics From Hearth to Table
March 7, 2026 - 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
This event is sold out.
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 Jan 3
Picturing the Revolution
April 18, 2026 - 9:30 AM - January 3, 2027 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
Drawing from Historic Deerfield’s rich collection of Revolutionary-era materials, this exhibition explores the diverse ways that 18th-century individuals “pictured” or understood the Revolution as it unfolded.
Apr
18
TO Jan 2
A Town Divided: Deerfield in the Age of Revolution
April 18, 2026 - 9:30 AM - January 2, 2027 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
While many associate the Revolution with Boston or battlefield sites, A Town Divided brings the promises—and contradictions—of the Revolution to life through the lens of a deeply divided rural town in western Massachusetts.
Apr
18
TO Jan 3
Dressing the Revolution: Fashion and Politics 1760–1789
April 18, 2026 - 9:30 AM - January 3, 2027 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
By posing new questions about fashion’s relationship with class, race, and gender, Dressing the Revolution: Fashion and Politics 1760–1789 places clothing at the center of the political debates, shedding light on dress as a powerful tool that communicated not just status and identity, but political affinities during this volatile period.
Jun
26
TO Jun 27
Dublin Seminar 2026 – Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come
June 26, 2026 - 9:00 AM - June 27, 2026 - 5:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife – Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come In June 2026, the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will mark its 50th anniversary by looking both backwards and ahead. As this year’s seminar looks forward to its own future, we will contemplate ways residents of the region […]