Blacksmithing: Make a Knife Workshop

Our popular blacksmithing workshop is back. Saturday & Sunday, February 10 & 11, 9AM-4PM, Knife Making Workshop.

Start to finish class. Begin with hand forging a blade and a handle tang from high carbon steel. Grind, file and sand your blade to perfection. You will temper the knife with an oil quench and an oven heat. You will prepare your tang to receive brass rivets and hard wood handle scales, You can sand these and oil finish them. We use a fast-drying epoxy in addition to the brass rivets to hold your handle together. Bring a bag lunch, safety glasses with side shields, ear plugs, leather gloves, natural fiber clothing, leather footwear, and a 2.5-3 lb. metal working hammer ( pein type or drill hammer ). Cost: $325 In case we have to cancel due to snow we will negotiate with you a makeup weekend. Gift certificates available. Call: 207-205-4849

Saturday & Sunday, September 30 & October 1, 8AM-3PM. Big Tag Sale Fundraiser Under the Tent

Due to Hurricane Lee we have changed the dates of our Big Tag Sale to Sat. & Sun., Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2023. We will still have a sizeable of antiques, household, machinery, hardware, tools, clothing, dolls, horse drawn implements, antique autos and parts, a Saw Mill, a manure spreader, horse drawn plows, signage, Victoriana, furniture, cast iron stoves, winnowers, a Fraser rototiller, a Buffalo Forge Co. drill press, a 19th century wood planer, corn shellers, 1940s vintage power tools, lots of nails and screws, lawn mowers, antique lumber, and more surprises and prizes…

Sat., Sept. 9, 10-3, FORD MODEL T SHOW & JITTERBUG/DOODLEBUG COMPETITION PULL

FORD MODEL T SHOW & JITTERBUG/DOODLEBUG COMPETITION PULL

Saturday, September 9, 2023, 10AM-3PM

ADMISSION: $10 Adults, 18 and Under: Free

LUNCH: $6 a plate: a hotdog or hamburger or sausage, potato salad, macaroni salad,

chili, and baked beans, Bottle water. Sodas and fruit juice for sale at the Country Store

along with other merchandise.

Collection, Carousel Rides, Car Show, Performance, and Spectacle

Curran Village will be hosting 27 Model Ts from Pine Tree Model T Club this Saturday. In

addition, Maine Antique Tractor Club (MATC) will have a jitterbug pulling competition. Ribbon prizes

awarded for wins in different categories.A jitterbug, also known as a doodlebug, is a homemade tractor.

These were fitted with dual transmissions for additional pulling power. They are created from vintage and

obsolete autos. This was a phenomenon that began in the 1920s and 1930s out of necessity in rural areas

in order to mechanize your farm or lumber operation at a low cost. Ford, Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery & Ward,

and others produced kits and parts for the purpose of adapting passenger cars. Farmers made their own utility

vehicles when they could not afford to buy a tractor. Model Ts especially were re-purposed into tractors,

cord saws, log skidders, pulp lumber trucks, and farm trucks. The Museum has a collection of these.

MATC keeps the tradition of mechanical prowess and Yankee ingenuity by providing venues for hobbyists

who either build new jitterbugs or preserve vintage ones.

Other activities include a timber framing project underway, mechanized wood splitting, work done in the

Carpenter’s Shop, lessons in the one room schoolhouse, a ride on the 1894 carousel, letterpress printing,

and the Country Store is open

for the first time.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

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.

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