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Music and Arts on the Farm: Part 2

A woman wearing a large straw bonnet and a plaid shawl playing a fife in a rural landscape with stone walls and trees.

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Times: Coggeshall Farm Museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m

Cost: Included with general daytime admission ($10 for adults, $5 for youth ages 4-17) or with Coggeshall Farm Museum membership or Old Sturbridge Village membership.

Coggeshall Farm Museum in Bristol, RI

Celebrate the beauty of our 1790s salt marsh farm through musical and artistic interpretation! Hear the Old Sturbridge Village musicians play some tunes, learn about historic instruments, and meet Deborah O’Connor, a local silhouette artist. Don’t forget to stop by the kid’s craft table to work on a masterpiece of your own!

The Silhouette Lady

Before photography became popular, silhouette artists captured your likeness to share with friends and family. Rhode Island-based silhouette artist Deborah O’Connor, known as The Silhouette Lady, keeps a classic tradition alive by hand-cutting silhouettes using only paper and scissors. She will be onsite to create silhouette keepsakes for an additional fee of $30. Pre-registration is required.

The silhouette keepsake is custom-made; frames are available for an additional fee. 

Please sign up for a time block below. You can expect to spend about 10 minutes with the artist to have your silhouette keepsake made.

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

 

A black silhouette of a young child with a hair bow is framed in an oval-shaped black and gold frame. The framed portrait is surrounded by an artistic wreath of watercolor-style leaves and pale pink roses against a soft beige background.

A woman in period clothing playing the violin and a man in a top hat playing a wooden flute perform together outdoors.
A group of visitors and reenactors in historic period clothing gather outside a rustic, dark-wood building at Old Sturbridge Village, with some individuals seated at a table covered with various items.
A choir of women wearing historic bonnets and dresses singing from songbooks while arranged in a line outdoors in front of a wooden barn at Coggeshall Farm.
A man in period attire, including a straw hat, playing a guitar while standing in front of a large boulder, with a younger person in similar clothing leaning against a stone wall in the background at Coggeshall Farm.