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Agricultural Fair, Local Harvest Celebration at Old Sturbridge Village Sept. 26 -27

Local harvest dinner and lecture by Frances Moore Lappé, author of “Diet for a Small Planet,” Sept. 26

STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Sept. 11, 2009) — Old Sturbridge Village will host an old-fashioned Agricultural Exhibition celebrating heirloom vegetables, locally grown food and historical farming techniques Sat. and Sun. Sept. 26-27. Visitors can try their hands at plowing behind the Village oxen, winnowing and threshing grain the old-fashioned way. Submissions of Village-made butter and cheese will be on display, along with quilts, knitted goods, lace, bonnets, and more.

Internationally renowned democracy advocate and world food hunger expert Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope’s Edge, and most recently, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad will give a free lecture at 5:00 p.m. Sat. Sept. 26. Following the lecture, a three-course local harvest dinner will be offered in the Oliver Wight Tavern at 6:30 p.m. featuring fresh foods from local farms. Cost of the dinner is $29.95, and online reservations are available. For times and details of all events: www.osv.org; 508-347-0290.

Author Lappé’s first book, Diet for a Small Planet, sold three million copies and was termed “the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint…” by the Associated Press. Gourmet Magazine named her among 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. Lappé’s writings have been featured in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, O: the Oprah Magazine, and on NPR and the BBC. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé (www.smallplanet.org).

For the local harvest dinner at 6:30 p.m. Sat. Sept. 26, Old Sturbridge Village chefs have prepared a menu featuring a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with fruits and vegetables from local farms in Easthampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Warren, and Whately, Mass.

The Old Sturbridge Village local harvest festivities cap a year-long series of “Moveable Feasts” and events designed to encourage the use of locally grown foods sponsored by the Joshua Hyde Library in Sturbridge, Jacob Edwards Library of Southbridge, the Charlton Public Library, and OSV, funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Old Sturbridge Village celebrates New England life in the 1830s and is open daily 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $20; seniors, $18; children 3-17, $7; children under 3, free. For information: 1-800-SEE-1830; www.osv.org.
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