Bangor Greendrinks Monthly Tuesday Gathering @ Curran Village, August 8, 5-8PM. Don’t miss an opportunity to party like it’s 1899!

The public is invited to a Bangor Greendrinks networking gathering at the Museum. Bangor Greendrinks is a nonprofit promoting networking of greater Bangor area businesses and green inspired sustainability. The Museum was a recipient of a $750 grant towards the relocation of a wood burning kiln for its developing ceramics program which was initiated with 7-12 year olds during our two recent weeks of summer camps. The admission is $5 to the Tuesday gathering; this will assist with future grants offered to area entities. This affords you two beers from the Homebrewers of Maine who will be serving in our new Country Store. The Museum will provide plates of snacks to enjoy. There will be limited ticketed carousel rides and some of the museum village will be open to perusal. Get information about the Museum that is completing a major infrastructure development project. Opportunities for you to volunteer or contribute can be discussed. Sign up for our in-print newsletter. Parking on Fields Pond Rd.

We are not open to the public during Old Home Week due to lack of staffing. We have a summer camp for kids but are not open to the general pubic during the week. We are open the weekend of July 22 & 23, 10AM – 3PM. Old Home Week, Sat., July 22 & Sun., July 23, 10AM-3PM Open Days. Free to Orrington Residents. Others: $10 each. Includes Carousel Rides at 10, 11, 1 & 2. During Old Home Week Weekdays our limited staff is engaged with programming for our Summer S.T.E.A.M. History Camp for Kids.

July 1-4, 8AM-3PM. Big Tag Sale Under the Tent

This museum fundraiser is a tag sale, cash and carry. There will be: antique tractors and attachments, antique auto parts, tools, a horse drawn manure spreader, a horse drawn apple orchard sprayer with hit and miss engine, seeders, wagon stuff, cultivators, sleighs, pumps, antique furniture, lighting, building supplies, old power tools, glass and china, desks, architectural, trunks, antique baby crib, and more. Worth a visit. More stuff coming out each day. We do not want donations for this sale; we have plenty. We are refining our collection, reaffirming our 19th century to the 1920s mission theme, and placing greater emphasis on hands-on education rather than static exhibit and quantities of artifacts in storage. All proceeds benefit this nonprofit museum. The sale will be limited to specific areas of the Village. The museum is not open these days due to staffing. Purchases over $20 will receive a carousel ride voucher to redeem at a later date.

Costumed Interpreters/ Docents

We are looking for retired teachers, teachers on summer vacation, history buffs, and the interested to work in a volunteer or part-time, seasonal capacity as costumed interpreters and/or docents at our museum village between May and August. We are a comprehensive presentation of rural New England life between the 1850s to the 1920s. Our emphasis is hands-on experiences with historical artifacts. There is something of interest for everyone. There will be year round opportunities for those available. The first step is calling us at 2307-205-4849 to express your interest.

Earth Day Celebration. April 22, 2023, 10AM-3PM

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world” John Muir

This is our first Earth Day recognition, and we will use this as an opportunity to plant trees that are important to our living history and hands-on programming related to traditional seasonal harvest. These will include maple trees an d apple trees. This is a family event, and the day will include carousel rides, food and demonstrations as well as the following activities:

1, Yes, we’ll have Belgian Draft Horses on Saturday, April 22, 10-3, for rides at our Earth Day.

2. Make wooden birdhouses

3. Goats from Loud Dog Farm

4. Cyanotype photography with plants

5. organic & inorganic scavenger hunt

6. stained glass bookmarkers ( wax paper, crayons, plants melted together )

7. coloring and painting of Earth Day themes

8. trek to the biggest glacial hieratic in the area (Ice Age Holden)—bring your boots,

9. carousel ride ( yes, it’s fixed)

10. apple tree grafting

11. apple tree planting participation

12.sugar maple tree plant participation,

13. blacksmithing and letterpress workshops in progress

14. FOOD : Secret Recipe, circa 1920s, Coney Island Hot Dogs (chilidogs), Wee Bit Farms of Orland grass fed beef, homemade focaccia bread, Grandpa’s Spaghetti Bolognese, Chili, Corn Chowder, Carrot Cake, Banana Bread, & waffles with this year’s Curran maple syrup and ice cream.

All inclusive admissions price: $12 Adults, $6 12 and Under, Toddlers & Infants Free, Don’t Miss It.

Our Ice Harvest is Cancelled on Sat., Jan. 28, 2023

We will not have our annual ice harvest this year due to thin ice and lack of frost in the ground.

We need very thick ice (usually 20 inches or more thick) to drive our tractor with half tracks pulling a sled to retrieve

ice harvested and transport it to the ice house at the Village above Fields Pond. Concern for the safety of our guest draft

horses is also a factor. We have had lots of snow but it is mud under that in the field where we give rides on a bobsled. The

horses could get injured pulled a heavy sled on soft ground as well as lose a shoe(s).

We will likely do an impromptu ice harvest for the sake of getting some ice for our Ice house so we can keep ice in our refrigerators in the farmhouse and Letterpress Office. We will cut that with our 1919 NOVO ice saw. We will post swhen and what time on our website and Facebook page if you are interest and want to help.

We will have our Maple Syrup & Irish Celebration Event on Saturday & Sunday, March 18 & 19, 10-3. We hope to offer draft horse and sled rides then as we have had snow at this time. We will have food, drink and demonstrations. We’re looking for blacksmiths for a roundup on these dates; let us know if you want to show up and use our blacksmith shops. There will an egg hunt in the snow for the kids and adults too if they like. Prizes awarded for eggs retrieved. And of course, we will be making maple syrup, you can try some, and we will have a choice of foods to taste the syrup with like homemade jonny cakes ( corn meal pancakes) and ice cream. Come see the progress of the museum. Food, drink and horse sled rides covered with our admissions price of $12 per person, under 15: $6.

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