2024 Season Calendar

Visit our website: curranhomestead.org & our Facebook page for more information about regular open days and the following events in 2023.

Our calendar may change due to lack of staffing. Sorry, we cannot open to the general public with only one or two people on hand. Unless designated admission is $10 per person.

Saturday, March 16, 10AM-3PM, Maple Syrup & Irish Celebration: Sugaring off, Egg Hunt with prizes, Belgian draft horses wagon rides, antique equipment demos, Bluegrass music with Riverside Jammers, 11AM-1PM, antique gas engines, museum village tours, letterpress printing, blacksmithing, and more… All included admission: Adult: $12, Ages 13-18: $6, 12 & Under: Free.

Saturday, April 20, 10AM-3PM, Earth Day Event. Carousel Rides. ( Our 1894 Armitage- Hershell Riding Gallery used throughout Maine and other destinations from 1896-1922), Lots of food choices, including Vegetarian baked beans, Pork & Beans, Chili, Hot Dogs, with Coney Island Sauce, if you like, Kraut Kuchen ( Volga German bacon & cabbage pastry), Strudels, Ice Cream with our own maple syrup, Newly donated wood splitters, Live steam wooden burning traction engine, hit and miss gas engines (a 1919 Fairbank-Morse 5 HP), A Cord Saw with a circa 1905 Economy gas engine performs, Blacksmithing ongoing ( we have frequent classes and this demo is with former students ), our 1917 Ford Model T Depot Hack will be running, a team of Belgian draft horses will be giving wagon rides, try one of our proof presses at the Whig & Courier Letterpress Office ( Meet Jeff Buxton whose family ran the Bucksport [Maine] Free Press for several generations; we were given both type, cuts, etc., and a Chandler & Price Letterpress from the establishment), Crank a vintage Ice Cream Maker, Learn to graft apple tree scions with Nate Coe ( last year we grafted 60 apple trees with heritage varieties [ Oxford Black, Gray Pearlmain, Gravenstein, Spitzenburg, and more,..). This year we will transplant 6 apple trees that have been nurtured at Director Bob Schmick’s house in Bangor for a number of years out of of fear of deer. There are another 30 trees to be dug up in Bangor if there are volunteers next year. In sum, we have 95 trees started for Curran’s own orchard to complement its 1870s cider mill. Fencing is key to survival. Please volunteer to build more deer-proof fencing for the apple orchard). There will be wax paper stained glass-esque book marker and window hangers making going on with dried flowers from the Curran Farm, a scavenger hunt for kids, There’s a lot more going on… Admission is an all-included price; $12 Adults, Ages 12-18: $6, and 11 and Under: Free.

Saturday, March 16, 10-3, is our Maple Syrup & Irish Celebration. Past Photos:

Old maple tree tapping spiles.
The Egg Hunt is on this Saturday, March 16. It’s ongoing. Prizes awarded for your efforts. No snow though, but wear boots.
Bluegrass in the Curran farmhouse with Riverside Jammers from 11AM-1PM.
The Sugar Shack is in need of a rebuild after several big windstorms this winter. Maybe you could pledge to help us rebuild it. We will set up a stove outdoors for the sugaring off this event.
Volunteer Zachary Platt is very skilled at hiding eggs for our Egg Hunt.
Our late board member Bob Croce was always up for making syrup at the Village.
Our own syrup
Blacksmithing
Irish soda bread
Although we cancelled the ice harvest two weekends in a row last year our staff was able to get out on the ice and use our 1919 Novo Ice Saw. This gas powered rotary saw on skis was used for commercial ice harvesting on Sebago Lake.