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Fall-Winter 2007 Activities at Old Sturbridge Village |
| Old Sturbridge Village celebrates New England life in the 1830s and is open 9:30 to 5:00, seven days a week through October 21; Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:30 to 4, October 22 through Dec. 31. Admission is: $20; seniors $18; children 3-17, $6; children under 3, free. (All prices include another visit free within 10 days!) For details on programs, go to www.osv.org or call 800-SEE-1830.
September September 29-30 An Early 19th-Century Agricultural Fair - 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Showcasing our Agricultural programs and displays. Experience an old-fashioned agricultural exhibition complete with displays of heirloom vegetables and agricultural accomplishments. See ox plowing demonstrations and try your hand at plowing. Visitors can work a shelling machine and a fanning mill, sew a seed bag, meet the “Fate Lady,” attend painting workshops with Michelle Temares, and try the new hands-on activities of yarn sewing and painting tin. Meet the village animals and take ox-cart rides on the Common. Enjoy the sounds of visiting folk musician Jeff Warner. This is a day of early American farm fun! October October 13-14 Apple Days - 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Experience the special history and tastes of apple harvest time in New England. Enjoy an apple harvest, learn about preservation and cooking, and take part in a special apple-tasting program with guest presenter Tom Burford (extra fee: $12). Demonstrations include grafting apple trees, Cider Mill demonstrations, and a press-your-own cider activity. An apple pie contest is offered for Museum Members. Also being offered is a hard cider tasting with specialist Ben Watson (for adults only; $10), making a sachet of mulling spices for cider, and making apple pomander balls and penny apple rug ornaments. October 20-21 Harvest Days – 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Celebrate harvest time in New England and experience first-hand traditional harvest practices of bringing in the year’s crops. Visitors can help Village farmers dig potatoes, shell corn, pull up root vegetables, shell beans, and plough with oxen using early 19th-century tools and techniques. Find out how gardeners generations ago saved seed, dried herbs, stored vegetables and fruits in root cellars, and otherwise preserved food for the winter. Enjoy the season's stunning fall foliage throughout the Village. Take a unique tour of the root cellar and smoke house at the Freeman Farm; make a nine-man Morris board or make your own blend of “Kitchen Pepper” to power the Cider Mill. October 20 Garden Thyme - 10:00 a.m. (member’s monthly garden topic program) For the Love of Herbs presented by Mike Stevens What’s your understanding of these hard-working horticultural mainstays? Take a garden tour of some of our favorite herbs and cultivate your own “herbal essence” in the process. October 27 Things that Go Bump in the Night - 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Trick-or-treat in our haunted Village and stroll among living scarecrows, vampires, trolls, ghosts, witches and wizards. Listen to visiting family-friendly storytellers and experience Lucky Bob and his comedic juggling. See the huge field of illuminated pumpkins and have your fortune told. A new adventure lurks around every corner. $12 per person, children under 3 free. Members can now register online; non-member registration begins October 1. October 27 Workshop: Gardening in Pots - 1:00 p.m. This month’s workshop is “Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Bloom.” You’ll learn to force bulbs and plant crocus or hyacinth bulbs in a reproduction glazed pot with saucer for indoor bloom in February. Registration required. $65.00/$50.00 members. Materials fee: $13.50 November November 3 Dinner in a Country Village - 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Enjoy a unique opportunity to prepare and eat a meal the way early New Englanders did. The Parsonage is the setting for this Saturday-night program, where costumed interpreters oversee the preparations, but the guests do the chopping, mixing, and stirring. Reservations required (online sign-up). $85.00/$75.00 members. November 10 An Evening of Illumination – 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. See Old Sturbridge Village the way it looked in the 1830s - illuminated only by the soft glow of authentic period lighting devices. Guided tours leave the Visitor Center being led through the dark village. No modern floodlights will be lit and minimal lighting in the households and building reflecting 1830’s practices will be the norm. At each stop the tour will encounter a leisure time vignette (examples: a person reading or storytelling by candlelight or fire-glow, a woman knitting or doing other domestic work, game playing, and even a quick barn dance in the Parsonage Barn). The culmination of the tour will be at Bullard Tavern for more Village-period food offerings and libations complete with music and merriment. Registration required; $25. Call 508-347-0205 to register. November 3-4 Discovery Camps at Old Sturbridge Village - 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Fall Adventures in History November is a time to celebrate the harvest and all that we are thankful for. Dress in costume, bake a traditional Thanksgiving treat on the open hearth, help take care of the animals on the farm, go to an old-fashioned barn dance, and more! Registration required (online sign-up). $135/$125 members of OSV November 11 Veterans Day – 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. On Veterans Day, the Village offers unique programs and demonstrations honoring America's military history, including drilling and blank firing on the Village Common, a tour of the Firearms Exhibit, a musket demonstration featuring the Village's costumed staff members, fife and drum music, and “Grandma Remembers the Revolution,” a unique storytelling performance. November 17 Dinner in a Country Village - 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Enjoy a unique opportunity to prepare and eat a meal the way early New Englanders did. The Parsonage is the setting for this Saturday-night program, where costumed interpreters oversee the preparations, but the guests do the chopping, mixing, and stirring. Reservations required (online sign-up). $85.00/$75.00 members. November 17 Garden Thyme 10:00 a.m. (member’s monthly garden topic program) Homegrown Christmas Decorations presented by Roberta McQuaid Field and forest provide the materials; we provide the know-how. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the confidence to craft your own swags, wreaths, and garlands at home for the holiday season. Learn how to make a boxwood tree table decoration; and Della Robbia-inspired fruit-covered wall plaques. November 22 Thanksgiving Day at OSV - 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. To mark one of just a handful of holidays on the early New England calendar, Old Sturbridge Village re-creates various activities from an authentic early New England Thanksgiving Day, including cooking at the hearth, demonstrations of 19th-century table manners, a Thanksgiving sermon, and after-dinner entertainment. Cost included with admission: $20; seniors $18; children 3-17, $6; children under 3, free. December December 1 Dinner in a Country Village - 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Enjoy a unique opportunity to prepare and eat a meal the way early New Englanders did. The Parsonage is the setting for this Saturday-night program, where costumed interpreters oversee the preparations, but the guests do the chopping, mixing, and stirring. Reservations required (online registration). $85.00/$75.00 members. December 7 - 9 and 14 - 16 Christmas Traditions by Candlelight 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Find out the facts behind the Christmas traditions that we hold near and dear. Listen to visiting performers from area schools, church, and civic groups. Join in caroling around the illuminated 19th-century Christmas village. Get away from the modern Christmas bustle and join us for an enchanted evening of gingerbread, chestnuts, music, dance, and if the weather is right - a sleigh ride. $12.00/$10.00 members. December 15 Garden Thyme - 10:00 a.m. (member’s monthly garden topic program) Calling All Seed Catalogs presented by Tom Hopkins Think there’s nothing to do in December to prepare for next summer’s bounty? Wrong! Settle down with all those seedy catalogs and plan your garden now for the most beautiful and bountiful harvest later! December 28 - 29 Discovery Camps at Old Sturbridge Village - 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Winter Adventures in History What did kids do during the long winter in the olden days? Come and find out! Take part in an 1830s school lesson, cook over the open hearth, play games, attend a New Year’s Ball, and more! Registration required (online sign-up). $135/$125 members of OSV December 27 Families Cook 5:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. This unique evening event offers families an opportunity to prepare -- and sit down to eat together -- a complete dinner by the hearth with the help of historically costumed staff. After dinner, relax by the fire and enjoy 19th-century games and amusements. Reservations required. - $85.00/$75.00 members. # # #
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