Sheep to Shawl Festival, Saturday, April 23, 2022, 1 – 4 pm. RAIN OR SHINE
Join us as we kick off the 50th Anniversary Celebrations for the Miller-Cory House Museum with our Sheep to Shawl Festival. Held on our historic grounds, the festival includes sheep shearing demonstrated by a master shearer using hand shears as was done in early America. Museum docents in period costume will also be demonstrating wool-related period crafts including spinning, weaving and knitting. 18th century farm tasks such as wash day and soap making will also be demonstrated and our cooks will showcase eighteenth-century colonial cuisine with authentic colonial-era open hearth cooking using period recipes and techniques. There will be a children’s craft and story
time with local author Laura Sassi who will be reading her sheep-themed picture book LITTLE EWE. Admission is $5 ages 13 and older; $4 ages 3-12 and free age 2 and younger. No reservations are necessary. The event is rain or shine and runs from 1:00 to 4:00.
From Garden to Table: Celebrating the Colonial Kitchen – May 15, 2022, 2 – 4pm
The Miller-Cory House Museum’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations continues with an exploration of the colonial kitchen from garden… to table! Visitors will learn about herbs from the garden, beekeeping, butter-making, colonial utensils and unusual kitchen gadgets and more. Cooks in period costume will showcase eighteenth-century colonial cuisine with authentic colonial-era open hearth cooking using period recipes and techniques. The grounds will be open for viewing and docents will be offering tours of the fully furnished c1740 farmhouse. Admission is $5 ages 13 and older; $4 ages 3-12 and free age 2 and younger. No reservations are necessary.
