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In conjunction with the new Orrington Farmers’ Market located at the Museum each Sunday, 2-6PM, some of the museum will be open (Free Admission). This will include the Letterpress Office and the Blacksmith Shop. Demonstrations will be ongoing at both. Learn about future letterpress printing workshops and blacksmithing workshops ( there is a Weekend Knifemaking…

There will be Museum activity in conjunction with the Orrington Farmers’ Market (2-6PM). The Letterpress Office and weather permitting some wood splitting with our recently donated Clark Foundry, Maine made splitter powered with a Fairbanks Morse “one lunger” engine. The Carousel will run at 2:30, 3:30, & 4:30.Ticket cost ( Purchase at the Carousel Building…

On Sunday, May 19, 2024, the Museum is offering a Coal Fired Forging: Blacksmithing Workshop with Instructor Dwight King, This will be from 2-5pm. The cost is $65. Bring a 2.5-3lb. hammer, safety eyewear, wear natural fiber clothes and footwear, gloves (optional), and earplugs (optional). Pay to register by calling: 207-205-4849. You should call by…

Recently, we started offering a $65 Beginning Blacksmithing Class on Friday Nights, but we plan to start offering this same 3-Hour Class on Sundays during the Orrington Farmers’ Market ( an independent entity). This Sunday, May 12, 2-6PM the Museum will have several of its building open and hopefully active with volunteers sharing the past….

Saturday, April 20, 10AM-3PM, Earth Day Event. 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,…

If you haven’t been in the blacksmithing shop at 19th Century Curran Village you might be surprised to see this newly installed coal forge seen here. This forge came up from the former Willowbrook Museum (in Newfield, ME) in recent years and has been sitting unused in the relocated Tom Flagg Smithy, the small 1935…

was the greatest attendance in a single day event in the history of the museum. More than 450 visitors experienced our sugaring off activities in the old Sugar Shack. There was lots of food choices in the Curran farmhouse including homemade waffles with our own maple syrup drizzled over them. At the Country Store visitors…

On Friday Night, March 15, 6-9PM we will revisit coal fired forging after a long hiatus. Our instructor Dwight King will develop beginners skills in you as you create a series of projects including J & S hooks. You will learn safety, fire starting and strategies for shaping steel once you’ve heated it. You should…

This free public event is always weather dependent. We have not had this event for two years due to warm weather spells and consequently no ice on Fields Pond. Our goal this year is to harvest enough ice to fill the small, newly constructed ice house at the Village. This will allow us to use…

Forge a steel metal knife using traditional blacksmithing techniques. You will begin with 1095 steel and hammer out a blade and handle tang. Once you have completed the rough shape you will grind, file and sand your blade to perfection. You will drill holes for your brass handle rivets. You will heat treat your blade…