TODAY AT OSV
9:30-12:00 A Printer at Work
(in the Printing Office)
9:30-1:00 A Shoemaker at Work
(in the Shoe Shop)
10:00-11:30 Try Your Hand at Fishing
(behind the N.E Changing Landscape)
10:00-11:50 Ride the Stagecoach
($3 fee, 3 & under free)
(stops in front of the Bullard Tavern)
10:00-12:00 Visit with Itinerant Artist Stephen
Belyea (in the Bullard Tavern)
10:00-1:00 Horse-Drawn Ride around the
Mill Pond (weather permitting)
10:00-4:00 Quinebaug River Boat Ride
($3 fee, 3 & under free, 15 minute ride)
(at the dock by the Dummerston Bridge)
10:00 Children’s Garden Talk (at the Fitch House)
10:00 Sawmill Demonstration
10:00 Broom Making Demonstration
(outside the Craft Center)
10:00 Music on the Antique Pipe Organ
(in the Center Meetinghouse)
10:00 19th Century Theorem Painting
Demonstration (in the Parsonage)
10:30 Fife and Drum Music (on the Common)
10:30 Schoolyard Games
(meet by the District School)
11:00 Meet the Lamb (at the Freeman Barn)
11:00 Gristmill Demonstration
11:00 The Singing School Practices for the
Summer Concert (in the Center Meetinghouse)
11:00 Guided Photography Tour
(meets outside the Center Meetinghouse)
11:00-2:00 Try Your Hand at Marbling Paper
(under the tent on the Common)
11:30 Carding Mill Demonstration
11:30 19th Century Country Music
(in the Parsonage Barn)
11:30 Learn a Dance with the Old Sturbridge
Village Dancers (by the Meetinghouse)
12:00 Help the Farmers with Seasonal Work
(at the Freeman Barn)
12:00 19th Century African American Spirituals
with Alika Hope (in the Parsonage Barn)
12:30 Musket Demonstration
(by the Bullard Tavern)
12:30 The Singing School Summer Concert
(in the Center Meetinghouse)
12:30 Fife and Drum Music (on the Common)
1:00-4:00 Visit with Itinerant Artist Stephen
Belyea (in the Bullard Tavern)
1:00-4:30 A Printer at Work (in the Printing Office)
1:00 Meet the Lamb (at the Freeman Barn)
1:00 A Guided Walk through the Center Village
(meets outside the Center Meetinghouse)
1:00 Learn a Dance with the Old Sturbridge
Village Dancers (by the Meetinghouse)
1:00 Demonstration of 19th Century Schoolgirl
Art (in the Parsonage)
1:00 Carding Mill Demonstration
1:30-4:50 Ride the Stagecoach
($3 fee, 3 & under free)
(stops in front of the Bullard Tavern)
1:30 Tour of the Bixby Garden
1:30 French & English (Tug o’ War)
(on the common)
1:30 Water Power Tour
(meets at the Carding Mill)
1:30 The Singing School Summer Concert
(in the Center Meetinghouse)
1:30 Guided Photography Tour
(meets outside the Center Meetinghouse)
1:30 19th Century African American Spirituals
with Alika Hope (in the Parsonage Barn)
2:00-5:00 A Shoemaker at Work
(in the Shoe Shop)
2:00 19th Century Baseball
(meets by the Center Meetinghouse)
2:00 Antique Musical Instrument Demonstration
(in the Parsonage Barn)
2:00 Learn to Play the Tin Whistle
(on the Miner Grant Porch)
2:00 Sawmill Demonstration
2:30-4:50 Horse-Drawn Ride around the
Mill Pond (weather permitting)
2:30 Tour of the Children’s Garden
(at the Fitch House)
2:30 Fife and Drum Music (on the Common)
2:30 Old Sturbridge Village Recorder Consort
(in the Dennison Building)
3:00 Hoop Races (meet by the Graveyard)
3:00 19th Century African American Spirituals
with Alika Hope (in the Parsonage Barn)
3:00 Botanical Sketching
(in the Towne House Garden)
3:00 Gristmill Demonstration
3:30 Carding Mill Demonstration
3:30 Tasteful Tunes and Devil’s Ditties
(in the Parsonage Barn)
3:30 Learn to Play the Tin Whistle
(on the Miner Grant Porch)
4:00 Music on the Antique Pipe Organ
(in the Center Meetinghouse)
4:00 Sawmill Demonstration
4:15 Toy Fire Balloon Flight
(on the common)
4:30 Fife and Drum Music
(on the Common)
* Daily Events are Subject to Change
HANDS ON CRAFTS CENTER
Instruction by Village craftspeople; make an item to take home. Today’s offerings include:
10:00-12:00– Make a Theorem Painting ($5)
10:30-11:30– Forge an Iron Hook ($10)
10:00-4:30– Dip a Pair of Candles ($5)
2:00-4:30– Sew a Penny Rug ($5)
Some restrictions on age, safety, and number of participants may apply.
DINING & SHOPPING
9:30-5:00 Grant Store & Bake Shop
(on the Common) Famous for our chocolate chip cookies, beverages & village made crafts.
9:30-5:30 Village Café (in the Oliver Wight Tavern)
Serves New England Coffee and hot beverages, cold beverages, baked goods, soups and "grab & go" sandwiches and salads.
11:30-2:30 Lunch at the Oliver Wight Tavern
Tavern lunch available with table service
11:00-3:00 Bullard Tavern
(on the Ground Floor) We have a wide array of lunch options available.
12:00-4:00 Little Cakes Ice Cream Stand
10:00-5:30 Museum Gift Shop & Book Store
We stay open a bit later than the rest of the village to give you the opportunity to find that ultimate souvenir. Please come see what we have to offer!
