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Harvest Days at Old Sturbridge Village |
| Visitors can learn to plow, help with the harvest |
| Sturbridge, Mass. (Oct. 5, 2009): With no supermarkets, the fall harvest was a busy -- and crucial -- time for farm families in early New England since they had to store enough food in the fall to last all year until the next fall’s harvest.
Old Sturbridge Village preserves and celebrates this tradition during its annual Harvest Days celebration, set for Oct. 17-18. Visitors can learn to plow behind the Village oxen, and try their hands at digging potatoes, gathering pumpkins, threshing grain, husking corn, shelling beans, and harvesting apples. The Village cider mill will be operating, and visitors can also try their hands pressing cider in a smaller cider press. Old Sturbridge Village historians in costume will demonstrate cooking with and preserving heirloom fruits and vegetables, milking, and will offer tours of the smokehouse and root cellar. Storytelling, music, hands-on crafts and musket-firing demonstrations are scheduled throughout the week- end. Visitors can also ride the stagecoach, meet the oxen, chat with the schoolkeeper, enjoy hearthside cooking demonstrations and watch the Village potter, tinsmith and cooper at work. For details: 1-800-733-1830; www.osv.org Old Sturbridge Village, celebrating New England life from 1790-1840, is one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums, with more than 40 restored buildings -- farmhouses, working mills, meetinghouses, and craft shops -- on more than 200 acres of fields and woods. The museum is open year round, but hours of operation vary seasonally. For details: www.osv.org; 1-800-SEE-1830. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Details of Harvest Days Activities at Old Sturbridge Village, Oct. 17-18: Throughout the day: Storytelling, music, hands-on crafts and musket demonstrations Cooking with heirloom vegetables at the Freeman Farm (potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas, onions…) Drying and preserving fruits and vegetables at the Small House 10 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m. - Harvesting root vegetables in the Freeman Garden 10 a.m. to noon - Shelling beans in the Fenno barn 3 p.m. – Harvesting apples in the orchards (near Freeman Farm and Bixby House) 3:30 p.m. – Preserving food in the 1800s: A tour of the smokehouse, root cellar and barns at the Freeman Farm 3:45 p.m. – Milking demonstration at the Freeman Barn # # #
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