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Historic DeerfieldCalendar Listing
Immediate Release
May 5, 2011
Attn: Calendar editor
Contact Marc Belanger 413-775-7127
Digital HI-RES photos available

June 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 * Family Activities

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

12-4:30 p.m., drop in anytime

 

Thrifty New Englanders kept their clothing in good repair and extended its longevity by patching and mending.  Women kept supplies of patches and sewing thread readily available.  Sailors on long sea voyages and soldiers on military campaigns learned to sew in order to repair clothing, sails and tents. Even though mending may have fallen out of favor in today's busy world, you can join us to learn about the satisfying feeling of using a needle and thread to repair something that might otherwise have been discarded. To help you with your mending, you can make a small personal sewing kit, called "A Housewife" to take with you.  Included with general admission.

 

About Historic Deerfield

Historic Deerfield (www.historic-deerfield.org) is a nationally recognized museum offering tours of period houses and the Flynt Center of Early New England Life. Now featuring exhibitions:

  • Educating the Mind's Eye: The Art of Young Adults,. 1790-1840 on view through September 4, 2011. 
  • Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture, a long-term furniture exhibition. 
  • Engraved Powder Horns from the French and Indian War and the American Revolution: The William H. Guthman Collection, permanent.
  • Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery, a permanent exhibition with changing elements.

Historic Deerfield also offers relaxed fine dining at Champney's Restaurant and Tavern at the Deerfield Inn, lodging in the Deerfield Inn (www.deerfieldinn.com), and shopping at the Museum Store (www.deerfieldstore.com). Please call 413-775-7214 for museum information and program schedule.

M10 logoMuseums10 is a dynamic collaboration that heightens awareness of the distinctive offerings of the individual institutions while highlighting the cultural diversity and outstanding educational resource that they collectively represent. Museums10 is facilitated by Five Colleges, Inc., which provides major administrative support for the partnership.  Museums10 includes: the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College; Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens; The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; Hampshire College Art Gallery; Historic Deerfield; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Yiddish Book Center; Smith College Museum of Art; and the University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst.  For more information, visit www.museums10.org.
MCC LogoA portion of Historic Deerfield's operating funds is provided through a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Historic Deerfield

www.historic-deerfield.org

80 Old Main Street, P.O. Box 321

Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342

T: 413-775-7127

F: 413-775-7220