Month: January 2022

Our Ice Harvest Event on Saturday, February 5, 2022, 10AM-3PM is CANCELLED due to the Winter Storm.

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After already postponing the Ice Harvest event originally scheduled for January 29; we are cancelling our free public Ice Harvest Event scheduled for Saturday, February 5. We will harvest ice during the coming week so that we can fill our Ice House for programming this coming spring and summer, but this will not be the public event. If you want to volunteer to help with that, we could use some help. We will need people to saw ice once we have made the initial cuts wityh our Novo Ice Saw achieving the depth of 10 inches. The ice on Fields Pond may be as thick as 20 inches.

Those who were looking forward to sled rides with our visiting draft horses, we will have them back for our Maple Syrup and Irish Celebration on Saturday, March 19, 10AM-3PM. If we don’t have snow, we will offer wagon rides.

Register for our Blacksmith For A Day Workshop

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Saturday, January 29, 2022, 9-4, Blacksmith For a Day Workshop. Learn the basics of metal forging in this beginner’s or refresher for the initiated’s workshop. Safety, materials, coal fired forging or propane forging, methods and technique are addressed in our museum blacksmith shop under instruction from our longtime blacksmith Dwight King. Make “J” hooks and mount them to a shaped metal plate with hand forged rivets to complete a coat rack. Cost: $75. Bring a 2.5 lb. hammer (pein type or drilling/machinist’s), natural fiber clothing and outerwear, leather footwear, safety glasses/goggles, a mask, and work gloves (optional). Students must be 15 years of age or older. Get $25 off on the next blacksmithing class you take with us like our Feb. 12 & 13, 9-4 Make a Knife Workshop. Call now to register: (207) 205-4849.