Museums10
|  |
| Join Today! |
|
Membership Benefits include:
- Free Unlimited Admission
- Free newsletters and program calendars
- Free issues of Historic Deerfield magazine
- Discounts at the Museum Store, Deerfield Inn, and on trips, classes, and workshoprs
- Invitations to exhibition previews, Annual Meeting, and other special events.
- Peace of mind knowing that you have done your part to support Historic Deerfield.
Click here to join today! | | Historic Deerfield
Schedule | |
Open Daily
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
(except Thanksgiving, Nov. 25)
|
|
Join Our List
|  |
| Discover Deerfield |
 | A portion of Historic Deerfield's operating funds is provided through a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
|  |
|
Join us on Facebook |
| |
 Please help us build our network on Facebook!
From your Facebook homepage, just type "Historic Deerfield" in the search box at the upper right and click on the page with the "key" logo. Then be sure to "share" a link to Historic Deerfield with all your friends. Thanks!
|
|
|
|
Congratulations to Rob Doherty!
|
| |
|
| Sign-up Now for "The Full Splendor of Beauty and Grace: Design and Proportion in Early American Architecture and Furniture" | |  November 12-14, 2010
Historic Deerfield will offer a symposium that explores design and proportion in early American furniture and architecture through lectures by international experts and hands-on workshops by master cabinetmakers. Pre-registration is required. For more information or to register for this event, please contact Julie Marcinkiewicz at 413-775-7179 or events@historic-deerfield.org.
|
|
Honey Harvest Family Activities
|
| September 11-12, 18-19, 25-26
12-4:30 p.m., drop in
anytime
 Honey was an
important ingredient used to sweeten foods and beverages in colonial America,
and to brew a traditional drink called mead.
Join museum educators in this fun family program to learn about bees and
honey. Taste different kinds of honey, and make a beeswax candle to take home.
Included with general admission.
|
Art of the Table Homeschool Day
|
|  Wednesday, September 15
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Dinner is Served!: Dining and the Decorative Arts in Early America, Historic Deerfield
will offer a chance for homeschool families to discuss how changing history and
material culture influenced the dinner table. See hearth cooking demonstrations
focused on the courses of food that are displayed in the historic houses. Learn
about familiar and exotic ingredients used in favorite dishes of long ago,
participate in making art for the table, and have fun playing a "place-setting"
game. Visitors can try their hand at
using historic design concepts to paint a ceramic plate to take home for an
additional $5. Pre-registration required by September 8. Registration is $12 for adults, $5 for
youth age (6-17). Children under 6 are free. Please call 413-775-7217 or e-mail ccarlson@historic-deerfield.org for more information.
LEARN MORE >>>
|
Tea and a Tour Program
|
|  September 25 * 2-4 p.m.
Join Historic Deerfield and the
Deerfield Inn for a fun and educational opportunity to learn more about
tea drinking in colonial Deerfield.
Enjoy a
delicious and beautiful array of freshly baked scones with clotted
cream, finger sandwiches, cakes, sherry, cookies and more with your nice
cup of tea! Also meet Amanda Rivera Lopez, Director of Museum Education
& Interpretation at Historic Deerfield, to
learn about the many ways people have enjoyed tea over time. Following
the tea, visit some of Historic Deerfield's tea-related collections.
Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for Youth (12 and under) and must be
purchased in advance. Pre-registration is required by September 20. For more information or to register, click here or please call the Deerfield Inn at 413-774-5587.
This program will be repeated on Saturday, November 13.
|
|
Following in the Stitches of Marietta Stebbins: The White Dove Sampler Embroidery Kit
|
|  September 25 * Workshop
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Bartels
Seminar Room
Join Joanne Harvey, owner of
The Examplarery, as she guides you
through the stitches and techniques for reproducing Marietta Stebbins' 1801
sampler in the "White Dove School" style that flourished in Deerfield.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine other samplers and pieces of
18th- and 19th-century embroidery with dealers and
scholars Carol and Stephen Huber of Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A tour of the
Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery led by a Master Guide is also included in the
workshop. Limited to 25 participants. Pre-registration
is required by September 17. For
more information or to register, please call 413-775-7179 or e-mail events@historic-deerfield.org.
LEARN MORE >>>
DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM >>>
|
|
"What's Cooking?" Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations |
| 
September 25
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Hall
Tavern Kitchen, drop in anytime
Historic Deerfield's open
hearth cooks will prepare select dishes that are on display in the Sheldon
House, Hinsdale and Anna Williams House, and Stebbins House as part of the exhibition
Dinner is Served!: Dining and the
Decorative Arts. Come see "what's cooking" and learn how these dishes were
prepared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Also offered October 2, 9-10, 16, 23, 30-31. Included with general admission.
|
WGBY History Detectives Antiques Appraisal Fair
|
|  September 26
Appraisal Fair
12 -4 p.m., 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 Western Massachusetts PBS
station, WGBY, and gain access to experts from the Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) and Historic Deerfield curators as they provide
verbal evaluations of your antiques.
 New!
History Detectives Live Show
5-6 p.m., Deerfield Academy
Come meet Tukufu Zuberi from the PBS hit series History Detectives at a special live
show to benefit WGBY.
Pre-registration
required for both events. For tickets and more information,
please call WGBY at 800-781-9429, or log on to wgby.org.
LEARN MORE >>>
|
|
|
