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Title:: Old Home Day
When:: October 21, 2012 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 - June 1, 2013 12:00PM
Uncorked! 2013

Sunday - June 9, 2013 12:00PM
The Billiou-Stillwell-Perine-House Roof Fundaiser

Sunday - June 16, 2013 1:00PM
Father's Day Focus Tour

Thursday - July 4, 2013 11:00AM
Independence Day Celebration

Saturday - August 31, 2013 11:00AM
Richmond County Fair 2013 8/31

Sunday - September 1, 2013 11:00AM
Richmond County Fair 2013 9/1

Monday - September 2, 2013 11:00AM
Richmond County Fair 2013 9/2

Monday - September 23, 2013 10:00AM
Village Flea Market

Saturday - September 28, 2013 1:00PM
9th Annual Smithsonian Museum Day

Sunday - October 20, 2013 11:00AM
Old Home Day

Friday - October 25, 2013 3:30PM
Halloween in Richmond Town

Friday - November 29, 2013 1:00PM
Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour

Saturday - December 14, 2013 5:00PM
Candlelight Tours

Saturday - December 21, 2013 5:00PM
Candlelight Tours

Wed., May 29, 2013
After School Book Club

Wed., May 29, 2013
English Country Dancing

Wed., May 29, 2013
Book Club for Adults

Thu., May 30, 2013
Story Museum

Thu., May 30, 2013
Quilt Making

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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