The Curran Homestead Village Museum is currently open by appointment and scheduled programs only. Please contact us to plan your visit.
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…
~ For Immediate Release ~ Monday, January 22, 2018 Contact: Robert Schmick, PhD, Museum Director Tel: 205-4849, Email: rpschmick1@aol.com Irv Marsters. President, Board of Directors Tel: (207) 745-4426, Email: irv@bangorlettershop.com Learning to Create with Red Hot Steel and Iron in the Greater Bangor Area 19th Century Curran Homestead Village’s Six Week…
2018 Membership Offer. Act on our Early Bird Special with a 2018 membership level at a 2017 price (Discount offer expires January 31, 2018). Membership comes with added benefits in 2018. See membership benefits on our website: curranhomestead.org ( also included in our in-print and mailed December 2017 newsletter that can be seen on our…
Think about this as a present for a loved one for the holiday. We can give you a gift certificate or register you for this January 23 class in time to present that as a present! Starting Tuesday, January 23, 6-9PM, Six Weeks of Beginning Blacksmithing Classes, Tuesdays and Thursday Evenings, at 19th Century Curran…
On Saturday, December 2, board members Dick Hanson, Dick Stockford, Ron Sucy and volunteer Nate Coe disassembled the North Castine Post Office in Penobscot, Maine and brought it by trailer back to Curran Homestead Village at Fields Pond. The building was located on the property of Jean Devereux who generously donated it to the museum….
Much thanks goes to Herb Crosby for videotaping this footage!
Beginning Blacksmith Course at Curran Homestead Beginning Blacksmith Course Begins Tuesday, November 7, 2017 19th Century Curran Homestead Village 19th Century Curran Homestead Village at 372 Field’s Pond Road, Orrington will offer a basic 6-week introductory blacksmithing course Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 9pm limited to six participants beginning Tuesday evening November 7,…
Sat., Oct. 21, 2017, 10AM-3PM. Free Members Day at Newfield! This is the last open day of the season. We will have a team of Percheron draft horses on site pulling a wagon for rides, carousel rides at 11, 12, & 2PM, costumed interpreters at our schoolhouse, letterpress printing shop, Victorian kitchen, and blacksmith shop….
This is a family must! There will be draft horses, Paul and Luna, pulling a hay wagon for rides. Other farm animals too.There is a jitterbug/doodlebug showdown with the Maine Antique Tractor Association, Maine Poultry Connection will be there sharing information about its scholarship program and sharing chickens and chicken coops. We will have old…
SCHEDULE OF OPENINGS, EVENTS, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER, 2017 Sat., Sept. 16, 10-3. Make a Propane Burning Blacksmithing Forge at FIELDS POND. Pay to register to make a clean burning, relatively efficient, and inexpensive version of commercial forges that cost four times or more the amount to make this. This is…