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Title:: Old Home Day
When:: October 17, 2010 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Category:: Special Events

Experience traditional crafts within NYC's only Historic Village.

WE ARE OPEN RAIN OR SHINE!

Watch the blacksmith and tinsmiths at work, meet the chair-caner, “colonial” cooks making bread and soup, expert quilters, beekeepers, spinners and more.

What does Old Home Day mean anyway?

Short and simple, it's a New England tradition started over 100
years ago as a day-long celebration that welcomed back
former residents to the old home ground. Towns prepared an
Old Home Day festival to stay connected to
old friends and introduce new friends.

Today, we honor that tradition as we invite old and new friends
to a day that celebrates the traditional lifestyle. We recreate and
demonstrate the numerous hand crafts that defined American
life in previous centuries. These skills helped build thousands
of small villages and towns into a prosperous nation. Experience a
warm down-home feeling on a cool fall Old Home Day at Historic
Richmond Town.

You can also enjoy double the fun on Old Home Day. Take on the
village and Decker Farm in one big town and country visit. Savor
fresh hot bread baked in our 200 year old village oven and then
head to the farm for pumpkin picking and a hay ride. It's all part
of the delicious fun strolling through America's past and present.

Here's what you'll see at this year's Old Home Day!

Beekeeping	Chaircaning
Rope making	Basketmaking
Tinsmithing	Cooking (soup)
Spinning	Dyeing
Chair making	Weaving
Children’s old-time games	Coopering
Baking bread	Making butter
Apple cider pressing	Candle making
Blacksmithing	Old-time photography

Saturday - February 11, 2012 1:00PM
FOCUS TOUR - African American Focus Tour

Saturday - February 11, 2012 7:30PM
Tavern Concert - Linda Russell & Companie

Saturday - February 11, 2012 9:00PM
Tavern Concert - Linda Russell & Companie (2)

Sunday - February 12, 2012 1:00PM
FOCUS TOUR - African American Focus Tour

Friday - February 17, 2012 12:00AM
Martini Master Class & Tapas Tasting

Saturday - February 18, 2012 7:30PM
Tavern Concert - Wahoo Skiffle Crazies

Saturday - February 18, 2012 9:00PM
Tavern Concert- Wahoo Skiffle Crazies (2)

Thursday - February 23, 2012 12:00AM
Martini Master Class & Tapas Tasting

Friday - February 24, 2012 12:00AM
Martini Master Class & Tapas Tasting

Saturday - February 25, 2012 7:30PM
Tavern Concert - The Johnson Girls

Saturday - February 25, 2012 9:00PM
Tavern Concert - The Johnson Girls (2)

Saturday - March 3, 2012 7:30PM
Tavern Concert - Bob Conroy & Norm Pederson

Saturday - March 3, 2012 9:00PM
Tavern Concert - Bob Conroy & Norm Pederson (2)

Saturday - March 10, 2012 7:30PM
Tavern Concert- Mara Levine & Caroline Cutroneo

Wed., February 8, 2012
After School Book Club

Thu., February 9, 2012
Story Museum

Wed., February 15, 2012
After School Book Club

Thu., February 16, 2012
Story Museum

Wed., February 22, 2012
After School Book Club

Historic Richmond Town is a joint project of the independent Staten Island Historical Society and the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs, and is a member of the Historic House Trust .

Historic Richmond Town
441 Clarke Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10306
(718) 351-1611

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