The Curran Homestead Village Museum is currently open by appointment and scheduled programs only. Please contact us to plan your visit.
Annual Membership Recognition Dinner At Curran Homestead Village at Newfield Saturday, June 23, 2018, 4:30-7PM GUEST SPEAKER: Earl Shettleworth, Jr., Maine State Historian This dinner is free to 2018 members and special donors It is $20 per person for non-members (Under 12:$10). Consult our 2018 membership benefits. RESERVATIONS NECESSARY FOR ALL: Call 207-745-4426, 207-205-4426. PLEASE…
Starting Tuesday, June 26, 6-9PM, Six Weeks of Beginning Blacksmithing Classes, Tuesdays and Thursday Evenings, at 19th Century Curran Homestead Village, 372 Fields Pond Rd., Orrington, ME 04474. The class covers all the basics of coal fired forging including safety first, tools and materials, heating, bending, piercing, and forming steel objects. Students will start off…
Sat., March 24, 10-3, 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at Newfield’s Maple Syrup Event & Irish Celebration at Newfield Saturday, March 24, 10am – 3pm, 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at Newfield will have a Maple Syrup Event and Irish Celebration, 70 Elm Street, Newfield, ME 04056. The event offers samplings of food flavored with…
We’ll have some wonderful lamb stew, for traditionalists, and beef stew at our upcoming Maple Syrup Event & Irish Celebration. This is grass-fed lamb and beef that was donated by Dan Hughes of Wee Bit Farm. Some might remember Dan in kilt with a joke or two to share and usually accompanied by one of…
Sat., March 17, 10-3, 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at Fields Pond Maple Syrup Event & Irish Celebration Saturday, March 17, 10am – 3pm, 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at Fields Pond will have a Maple Syrup Event and Irish Celebration, 372 Fields Pond Rd., Orrington, ME 04474. The event offers samplings of fold flavored…
Sat., March 24, 9-3. Make a Crystal Radio Set. This class is open to Ages 11 and above.You will build a working radio using a crystal diode and other components on a wooden base. Ear phones and all materials are included. You will learn to solder wire. You will also be introduced to a razor…
Saturday, March 17, 10AM-3PM, Maple Syrup Event and Irish Celebration at Fields Pond (Orrington) Maple Syrup Making Demonstration Blacksmithing Demonstration Horse Drawn Bob Sleigh or Wagon ( Weather Dependent) Maple Syrup Flavored Food and Refreshments Childrens’ Egg Hunt
Sat. & Sun., February 24 & 25, 9AM-3PM Letterpress Printing Class. 12 hours total. Under the tutelage of professional letterpress printer Mark Matteau of the Dunstan Press of Scarborough, students will learn to set type in a chase, ink a platen on either a foot treadle or hand letterpress, and feed the press for a…
Our event and classes scheduled for February 3 & 4 will proceed as planned whether rain, snow or shine.
Curran Homestead Village at NEWFIELD (Formerly Willowbrook Museum): Saturday and Sunday, February 24 & 25, 9AM-4PM. BLACKSMITHING: MAKE A KNIFE. This popular class is back with instructor Frank Vivier. You will heat and forge a billet of spring steel into a blade and handle tang. Grind and hand file your blade to perfection. Heat treat your blade…