Enjoy expanded hands-on and interactive activities throughout the Village, along with family-friendly performances and entertainment. Meet the new arrivals at the farm and on Monday, mark Patriots Day with special activities. Also, Earth Day falls this week, and the Village focuses on "Waste Not, Want Not; Recycling 19th-century style" on April 22.

Here's what to look forward to (or see a detailed listing of
each day's activities):

• Visit the Freeman Farm root cellar and learn how spring was the trickiest time of year in terms of feeding the family
• Tour the Woodland Walk as the forest "springs" back to life
• Learn about shoemaking and see the part of the process that was done at home (usually by women or girls), before the shoemaker got involved
• See demonstrations of basket making and soap making
• Help churn butter and learn why buttermaking was a seasonal activity
• Help harvest Jerusalem artichokes in the kitchen garden at the Freeman Farm
• See springtime plowing and take a turn behind the oxen
• Meet the lambs and piglets at the farm
• Make a seed bag or plant a seed (activities included with admission)
• Attend a 19th-century school lesson and compare then and now
• See a 19th-century magic show
• See demonstrations of blacksmithing, pottery, hearth cooking, tin making, printing
• Learn about everyday life in the springtime in an 1830s New England village
• Head to the Hands-On Crafts Center to make a take-home project (separate fee)
• Learn about family life at home in the Fitch House
• See the water-powered mills in operation