NEWS August 1st, 2010 The eighth month has begun and we've got a lot planned here at the farm. Join us every Saturday morning this month for Breakfast in the Barnyard, a new program featuring our unique heritage livestock! The animals at Coggeshall Farm Museum are one of the most popular parts of our exhibit, but did you know that these aren't your ordinary barnyard critters? Learn about “barndoor fowl”, phenotype breeding, and the different ways that New Englanders have thought about and used animals over the past 200 years. This program runs from 8:00am-9:30am and gives you, our visitors, the chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at the morning chores at the museum. Meet, feed, and brush your favorite animals and our best furred, feathered, and bristled interpreters. For more information, please visit our Special Events Calendar here on the website. Also new this month is the first of our Foodways Workshops. Here at the farm we're all about asking food questions- Where does it comes from? Who produces it? How is it prepared? Food, or “foodways” as we call it in the museum field, is the core thread that unites every aspect of the farm museum. These workshops will give you the opportunity to ask those questions while discovering the answers and tasting the results! Focusing on local food, the workshops begin in our Kitchen Garden where participants will harvest our heirloom produce. Returning to the farmhouse, we'll turn that produce into dinner at the hearth using Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, the first cookbook written by an American author for an American audience. Ms. Simmons published her cookbook in 1796, making it a staple for our foodways program. The evening will finish off by enjoying our farm raised dinner by candlelight in the farmhouse. More information about our Historic Foodways Workshops can be found on the website under the Workshop Calendar. We hope to see you there! Coggeshall Farm Museum is also starting to develop a regular presence off the museum grounds. Visit us on Friday afternoons from 2:00pm-6:00pm at the Colt State Park Farmer's Market. Our offerings tend to be small, just enough to fill a basket that we carry by foot from the farm, so come early! This is a great market with lots of variety and wonderful farmers, bakers, and fishermen. I will personally attest to having purchased some of the best peaches I've ever eaten at this market, and sorry Georgia, they were grown in Rhode Island! One stop shopping while supporting your neighbors, what's better than that? As always there are plenty of volunteer opportunities at the museum, especially as we gear up for our annual Harvest Fair fundraiser in September. Please visit the Volunteer page under Join and Support on the website and fill out a volunteer application so we can help you get the most out of your experience at the farm. We hope that as the summer winds to an end that you'll make a trip to Coggeshall Farm Museum. Looking forward to another month of sun! Justin L. Squizzero, Director of Historic Interpretation
JUNE, 2010 Welcome to Coggeshall Farm Museum's new web site! Knowing that so many people access our museum through the internet, we've redesigned our web presence to be user friendly and to hopefully capture a little of the museum's flavor. We hope that you find the new site easy to navigate and enjoy. Please visit our Calendar page for an updated schedule of special events and workshops, and check back as we expand and update our web exclusive features. We hope to see you at the museum soon, Justin L. Squizzero, Director of Historic Interpretation |
