Month: November 2018

Your Donation For Giving Tuesday, November 27, 2018

 

We have the ambitious goal of expanding and enriching our school field trip offerings at Fields Pond (Orrington/Holden) and Newfield. Your support can move us closer to that goal. We saw more than 1800 school visitors this year, and that means that teachers from more than two dozen schools regularly chose our hands-on experiential programming for their students.

 

Whether it be hand cranking a wooden washing machine and wringing out the water with a hand crank wringer, turning cream into butter, turning the handle of a burr mill and producing cracked corn that you get to feed to chickens, sending a message in Morse code using a telegraph key, using your manners in the little red schoolhouse,  turning a electromagnet to produce a shock or making a diagnosis using X-rays, lifting a 100 pound anvil with a pulley system, using a lever to draw water from a well, pulling the handle of a letterpress to print, simulating the power of a horse on a treadmill, or…. You get the idea. These are some of the many formal and informal experiences that don’t happen in classrooms but  continue to happen for school children at these living history villages with your donation. Helps us to expand and enrich the experiences for our future.

We are setting the bar high with a goal of raising $10,000 on Giving Tuesday, November 27. If we can achieve that in one day imagine what we can do to make memorable learning experiences this and future generation. 

Using Lessons from the Past for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Challenges

Call us: (207) 205-4849, (207) 745-4426 with your pledge!

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Mail us your donation! Curran Homestead Village, P.O. Box 107, Orrington, Maine 04474 

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Email us with your contact information, and we’ll get back to you pronto.

NEWFIELD—Sat., February 2, 10-3. Ice Harvest at the Mill Pond: This year we utilize our new ice house storing the ice harvested at this public participation event. Horse drawn bobsled rides: $5. Goodies available at our warming center. Bring the family and help bring in harvested ice. Blacksmithing demonstrations ongoing.On Thurs., Jan. 3, 9-4, & Fri., Feb. 1, 9-4, we will be preparing for the harvest; we can use volunteers. Call: 207-205-4849. Admission free with charges for food and sled rides.

FIELDS POND—Sat., February 9, 10-3. Ice Harvest at Fields Pond.This year we hope to unveil a 1920s Novo Ice saw. This is a gas powered, chain drive gas engine with 42 inch radial saw blade on a sled that was used to cut the grid into the ice that was subsequently sawed through by hand saws. We hope to demonstrate this with public participation and vintage hand tools. Day includes Belgian draft horses pulling 17 foot bobsled for rides, $5. A warm farmhouse kitchen with soup and bread. A family event worth the trip. Admission free with charges for food and sled rides.