Historic Deerfield

Spend a day in old New England! Visit Historic Deerfield, an open-air museum of early American life in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.

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Have you been to the History Workshop at Historic Deerfield? The History Workshop is a hands-on play and activity space located in a renovated 1870s barn. It offers a drop-in space where children and adults alike can have fun in a variety of history-themed activity areas.

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Our Collections Care Technician, Sam Frost, recently returned from the “Handling and Maintenance of Historic House Collections” workshop in Baltimore, Maryland! The workshop will help guide Sam and the Curatorial department care for our 12 historic houses and 32,000 objects!

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The Deerfield Collectors Guild helps Historic Deerfield acquire and preserve rare objects that tell our region’s rich story. Right now, two Guild-funded acquisitions are on view at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life—but only until February 23!

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This March, take a musical journey through the history of New England in our new museum course, "One Hundred Years of Song: Singing Early New England Music for Science, Memory, and Abolitionism, 1770-1870" with Dr. Tim Eriksen.

https://t.co/RKI6yiZDkg

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The History Workshop at Historic Deerfield will be open from February 17 to 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with special activities like playing with clay marbles, writing with quill pens, carding wool, and taking part in a fun "ice fishing" activity.

Tickets: https://t.co/ur65itnnOx

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As we look ahead towards the rest of 2025, we're excited to share a free, valuable resource: FreeWill’s online estate planning tool. It’s a quick and easy way to plan for the future, ensuring your loved ones and belongings are protected.

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“‘Regard not time, but this sign’: Recipes and Embodied Knowledge in Early America,” by Alexandra M. Macdonald will be on Feb 23 from 2–3 p.m. (on Zoom), as part of our free virtual winter lecture series. Register for freee at https://t.co/MqrWqzSroj

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The Flynt Center will be closed tomorrow (Sunday, Feb. 9) due to the weather. Stay safe and warm, everyone!

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Happy #FurnitureFriday! We hope you enjoy this spectacular arts and crafts “bridal chest” by Madeline Yale Wynne, currently on display in the Flynt Center exhibition “Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions at Historic Deerfield.”

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Greetings from snowy Deerfield!

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Just three weekends left to visit the Flynt Center this winter! We're open Saturdays & Sundays, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. through February 23, and admission is free! After that, the building will close for 2 months as we mount new exhibitions for the spring! https://t.co/TCBpGjpBYx

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Happy #FurnitureFriday! We hope you enjoy this fancifully painted blanket chest on display in the Flynt Center exhibition, “Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection,” open with free admission every Sat & Sun until Feb 23.

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Deadline alert! Applications for this year's Summer Fellowship Program are due by February 3!

The fellowship welcomes applications from college juniors and seniors to its nine-week, tuition-free Summer Fellowship Program in History & Material Culture.

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Our new museum course, "One Hundred Years of Song: Singing Early New England Music for Science, Memory, and Abolitionism, 1770-1870," will reveal how music intertwines with the social and political currents of the time. The instructor is Dr. Tim Eriksen.

https://t.co/RKI6yiZDkg.

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Reminder: our 4-part winter lecture series starts tomorrow (Sunday) at 2pm and there's still time to sign up! It's free, virtual, and recordings will be sent to all registrants after the fact, so you can still watch, even if you're not free on Sunday.

https://t.co/MqrWqzSroj

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Join us at the History Workshop for February school vacation week, February 17-21 (10 a.m. - 3 p.m.) Explore history through games, crafts, & activities. https://t.co/Lowz8cEUUF

Free for ages 17 & under! $7 for adults. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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It’s hard to believe it’s already #FurnitureFriday! The dial of this clock clearly identifies the maker of the works and the year made: "N[athan]. Hale Windsor Verm't No. 380 1793,” but the maker is presently unknown.

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Our free winter lecture series begins soon! The first lecture, "Edward Duffield and Colonial American Clockmaking" by horology scholar Bob Frishman, will start on January 26 from 2 – 3 p.m.

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Historic Deerfield welcomes a new Memorial Libraries Research Fellow, Katie Lincoln, a MA student in Historical Archaeology at UMass Boston, working on her thesis “Life on Old Crag: A Spatial Examination of Community and Economic Relations in Rural 19th Century Massachusetts.”

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Happy #FurnitureFriday! This Shaker three-drawer table was made by cabinetmaker Abner Allen of the Enfield, CT, Shaker community. The table’s form and construction embraces the Shaker tenants of simplicity and honesty.