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Jan
26
TO Apr 27
Free Virtual Lecture Series — Tempus Fugit/Time Flies: Measuring, Perceiving, and Living Time in Early America
January 26, 2025 - 2:00 PM - April 27, 2025 - 3:00 PM
This virtual lecture series features speakers who will address both the abstract and material nature of time found not only in clocks but also in other objects and processes central to life in early New England such as brewing, needlework, husbandry, farming, and cooking.
Apr
21
TO Apr 25
April Vacation Week 2025: Our Power, Our Planet
April 21, 2025 - 10:00 AM - April 25, 2025 - 3:00 PMHistory Workshop (+ Google Map)
Explore how wind and water power have been used in the past and continue to be important for our future. Make a wind-powered toy and have fun with people-powered tools as we get our garden beds ready for spring. Enjoy all our usual historic entertainments like old-fashioned games, dress up clothes, play kitchen, weaving looms, one-room schoolhouse activities, and more.
May
3
TO Jan 4
Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real
May 3, 2025 - 9:30 AM - January 4, 2026 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
This exhibition will explore the enduring interest in clothing our bodies to achieve fashionable shapes. It will feature twenty-five ensembles from the 18th to 21st centuries drawn predominantly from Historic Deerfield’s renowned clothing collection. Displayed along with the historical garments will be the understructures – stays, corsets, hoops skirts, and bustles – that helped shape, exaggerate, or reduce bodies to fit fashionable ideals.
May
3
TO Jan 4
Envisioning America: Deerfield Academy’s Collection of Paintings and Drawings
May 3, 2025 - 9:30 AM - January 4, 2026 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school located in Old Deerfield, possesses a rich collection of American art, ranging from colonial American portraiture to early 20th-century modernism. This exhibition highlights significant works of art from the Academy’s collection, many of which have not been on public view for decades.
May
3
TO Nov 30
Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection
May 3, 2025 - 9:30 AM - November 30, 2025 - 4:30 PMFlynt Center of Early New England Life (+ Google Map)
The exhibition highlights both published and unpublished material from the Alleys’ collection, showing how these objects reveal varied techniques and ornament as well as the characteristics of the environment in which they were made.
May
3
TO May 4
Wooly Wonders – Heritage Breed Sheep Weekend
May 3, 2025 - 10:00 AM - May 4, 2025 - 4:00 PM
Join us for a celebration of rare, historic and adorable heritage breed sheep, textiles, and wool-processing in New England. See heritage breeds of sheep as well as demonstrations, craft activities, and games.
May
10
Spice it Up! Cooking with Flavors of the Past
May 10, 2025 - 8:00 AM - May 10, 2025 - 5:00 PM
May 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Today we take for granted the availability of any herb, spice, salt, or vinegar we desire to flavor our favorite dishes. Our hearth cooks this month will be taking a deeper look at the ingredients used to flavor some period recipes from Amelia Simmons 1796 cookbook, American Cookery.
May
10
Historic Trade Demonstration: Stitch and Twist
May 10, 2025 - 10:00 AM - May 10, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Join us for dressmaking with Linda Oakley, shoemaking with Peter Oakley, and bobbin lace making with Lynne White.
May
10
TO Jun 29
Family Program: Fake It While You Make It
May 10, 2025 - 12:00 PM - June 29, 2025 - 4:30 PMHistory Workshop (+ Google Map)
Starting May 10th, open Saturday and Sundays through June at the History Workshop.
May
15
TO Nov 20
Natural History Walking Tour Around Old Deerfield
May 15, 2025 - 3:00 PM - November 20, 2025 - 3:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Join us on select Thursdays for a guided walk around Old Deerfield.
May
17
Spice it Up! Cooking with Flavors of the Past
May 17, 2025 - 8:00 AM - May 17, 2025 - 5:00 PM
May 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Today we take for granted the availability of any herb, spice, salt, or vinegar we desire to flavor our favorite dishes. Our hearth cooks this month will be taking a deeper look at the ingredients used to flavor some period recipes from Amelia Simmons 1796 cookbook, American Cookery.
May
17
Historic Trade Demonstration: Buttons and Brooms
May 17, 2025 - 6:00 AM - May 17, 2025 - 12:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Join us for round brooms and cobwebbers with Jennifer Roy and leather buttons and household items with Greg Morin.
May
17
Soapstone Bead Workshop with Elizabeth James-Perry
May 17, 2025 - 1:00 PM - May 17, 2025 - 5:00 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
Join 2023 NEA Heritage award recipient Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag) for a workshop on making soapstone beads.
May
24
Spice it Up! Cooking with Flavors of the Past
May 24, 2025 - 8:00 AM - May 24, 2025 - 5:00 PM
May 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Today we take for granted the availability of any herb, spice, salt, or vinegar we desire to flavor our favorite dishes. Our hearth cooks this month will be taking a deeper look at the ingredients used to flavor some period recipes from Amelia Simmons 1796 cookbook, American Cookery.
May
24
Historic Trade Demonstration: Smithy Saturday
May 24, 2025 - 10:00 AM - May 24, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
Join us for blacksmithing with Rick Martin & friends and gunsmithing with Richard Colton.
May
31
Spice it Up! Cooking with Flavors of the Past
May 31, 2025 - 8:00 AM - May 31, 2025 - 5:00 PM
May 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Today we take for granted the availability of any herb, spice, salt, or vinegar we desire to flavor our favorite dishes. Our hearth cooks this month will be taking a deeper look at the ingredients used to flavor some period recipes from Amelia Simmons 1796 cookbook, American Cookery.
May
31
Historic Trade Demonstration: Pots and Chairs
May 31, 2025 - 10:00 AM - May 31, 2025 - 4:00 PMApprentice’s Workshop (+ Google Map)
Join us for stoneware pottery with Mark Shapiro and chair making with Charles Thompson.
Jun
7
Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Cooking with Herbs
June 7, 2025 - 9:30 AM - June 7, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
June 7, 14, 21, 28
During the month of June, the herb garden will be bursting with color, fresh herbs, and edible flowers. Come and learn about the use of herbs in cooking that were used to add flavor and freshness to seasonal dishes. Visit the Cooks’ Garden dedicated to the memory of Margaret Quinn Orloske and see what’s growing.
Jun
7
Historic Trade Demonstration: Furniture and Woodworking with Sharon Mehrman
June 7, 2025 - 10:00 AM - June 7, 2025 - 4:00 PMApprentice’s Workshop (+ Google Map)
Sharon Mehrman is an artisan woodworker and historian of material culture, historic woodworking trades, tools, and technology.
Jun
8
Bark Basket Workshop with Jennifer Lee
June 8, 2025 - 1:00 PM - June 8, 2025 - 5:00 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
Join Jennifer Lee for a workshop on making bark baskets. She will teach you how to make a basket that you can take home.
Jun
13
Juneteenth Celebration Concert with Jake Blount
June 13, 2025 - 7:00 PM - June 13, 2025 - 8:30 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
Jake Blount is an award-winning interpreter of Black folk music based in Providence, RI. Initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Blount has charted an unprecedented Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections. In his hands, the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar, and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears.
Jun
14
Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Cooking with Herbs
June 14, 2025 - 9:30 AM - June 14, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
June 7, 14, 21, 28
During the month of June, the herb garden will be bursting with color, fresh herbs, and edible flowers. Come and learn about the use of herbs in cooking that were used to add flavor and freshness to seasonal dishes. Visit the Cooks’ Garden dedicated to the memory of Margaret Quinn Orloske and see what’s growing.
Jun
14
Historic Trade Demonstration: Sparkling Silver with Silversmith Steve Smithers
June 14, 2025 - 10:00 AM - June 14, 2025 - 4:00 PMHistoric Deerfield (+ Google Map)
Join us for silversmithing with Steve Smithers.
Jun
15
Father’s Day Fun: Make a Colorful Clay Tile Workshop with Rick Hamelin
June 15, 2025 - 2:00 PM - June 15, 2025 - 3:30 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
Family-friendly hands-on workshop! Join us in exploring creativity and pottery techniques with this exciting tile project. Master Potter, Rick of Pied Potter Hamelin, will guide you through the process of creating a colorful masterpiece inspired by some tiles here at Historic Deerfield!
Jun
21
Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Cooking with Herbs
June 21, 2025 - 9:30 AM - June 21, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
June 7, 14, 21, 28
During the month of June, the herb garden will be bursting with color, fresh herbs, and edible flowers. Come and learn about the use of herbs in cooking that were used to add flavor and freshness to seasonal dishes. Visit the Cooks’ Garden dedicated to the memory of Margaret Quinn Orloske and see what’s growing.
Jun
21
Historic Trade Demonstration: Redware Pottery with Rick Hamelin
June 21, 2025 - 10:00 AM - June 21, 2025 - 4:00 PMApprentice’s Workshop (+ Google Map)
Join us for redware pottery with Rick Hamelin.
Jun
26
TO Jul 17
Hybrid Summer Lecture Series: Indigenous Histories and Material Culture
June 26, 2025 - 7:00 PM - July 17, 2025 - 8:00 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
The 2025 Summer Lecture Series will take place both in person at the Deerfield Community Center and via Zoom from 7–8 p.m. (ET) on the following Thursdays: June 26, July 10, and July 17.
Jun
27
TO Jun 28
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Recalling the Revolution in New England
June 27, 2025 - 12:00 AM - June 28, 2025 - 11:59 PMDeerfield Community Center (+ Google Map)
Learn about the broad range of ways the people of New England have looked back on the nation’s founding —and what they forgot, or chose to forget, in the process. We will explore how the peoples of the region have commemorated, memorialized, documented, invoked, fictionalized, and even forgotten the American Revolution through the Bicentennial period.
Jun
28
Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Cooking with Herbs
June 28, 2025 - 9:30 AM - June 28, 2025 - 4:00 PMHall Tavern (+ Google Map)
June 7, 14, 21, 28
During the month of June, the herb garden will be bursting with color, fresh herbs, and edible flowers. Come and learn about the use of herbs in cooking that were used to add flavor and freshness to seasonal dishes. Visit the Cooks’ Garden dedicated to the memory of Margaret Quinn Orloske and see what’s growing.