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Summer Evening Stroll Sunday, July 3, 5pm-7pm Historic Deerfield $10 per person Tickets at: www.historic-deerfield.org/events/2022/7/3/summer-stroll-deerfield-revolution Event Details: Enjoy a special guided evening walking tour along Old Main Street that explores life in a small town during the American Revolution. Incorporating music and stories from the period, this special tour looks at the experience of Revolution …
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Clark Chapman Festival Saturday, June 4, 1-5pm Southampton Historical Society & Clark Chapman House, 234 College Highway, Southampton, MA Free and open to the public Event Details: Come tour the Clark Chapman House to see all the new updates and displays. Enjoy music from Ravenwood and light refreshments will be served. https://www.facebook.com/southamptonmahistoricalsociety
Back in business: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum in Hadley to reopen The museum opens again on June 1. “And when it does, museum officials say they’ll be offering new tours of the historic 18th-century house that will tell a more complete story of the people who lived and worked on the property, from Native Americans who predated …
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Styling: Historic Hair and Beauty Practices Friday, April 29, 9:30am-5:00pm Hosted by Historic Deerfield In person and online: https://www.historic-deerfield.org/styling-historic-hair Event Details: A one-day in-person and virtual forum that explores the visual and material culture of hairdressing in the 18th – and 19th – century Atlantic World. Four illustrated talks and one live demonstration will collectively inform …
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Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum Opens for 2013 Season The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, an historic house museum dating to 1752 in Hadley, MA opens today (Wednesday, May 15) for its 64th season, and will continue their summer music engagement series, Wednesday Folk Traditions and A Perfect Spot of Tea this summer. Known as Forty Acres, the museum is an […]
Early New England farm equipment in a restored 1782 barn: blacksmith tools, ox cart, stage coach, plows, early domestic appliances from the colonial period through the civil…
Historic museums provide insight into the Pioneer Valley’s past, from the colonial era through the industrial age. Some museums also provide support for genealogy research, offer living exhibits, or special events. Area museums cover the range from before the first European settlers and conflict with the French and Indians, to the spread of industrialism, use of water power and development of the mills, through the advent of the machine age…