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THURSDAY mornings from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Step inside a world filled with the magic of stories, crafts, music, dancing
and singing.
Preschool children up to age 5.
Please call (718) 351-1611 x 280 to make a reservation
Admission $3/Child, Adult/FREE
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for Grades 4-5 and Junior High Students
at Historic Richmond Town
4th and 5th Graders: Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 PM
Grades 6-8: Thursday afternoons at 3:30 PM
In a new program beginning in October, literature will be used as a means
to develop an appreciation of the people we have become. Using Historic
Richmond Town as the backdrop students will have the opportunity to read,
imagine, and in many cases, to actually engage in the experiences they
have been reading about.
The Book Club will begin by reading the Scholastic series, “If You Lived in …..” covering the major periods of our history. The collections and historic buildings of Richmond Town will enhance the readers experience of the various time periods the books are set in.
The after school book club is for boys and girls in grades 4 and 5 and for Junior High School Students (Grades 6-8).
The 5th grade group will meet every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., while
Junior High students will meet on Thursday afternoons at 3:30 p.m., and
will gather in the museum building at Richmond Town beginning October 12th
and 14th.
Program Free (Cost of book additional)
Please call (718) 351-1611 x 280 to register.
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Special Events
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8 weeks, starts Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM
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Quilt making class teaches hand quilting for beginners and experienced quilters, taught by Carlotta and Carli DeFillo.
$55/person, $50/SIHS Members. Prepaid reservations.
Call (718) 351-1611,
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ANTIQUES, CRAFTS AND COLLECTIBLES MARKET
Sunday, May 4, 2008 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
(Raindate May 18, 2008)
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150 vendors will gather for a
flea market, antiques crafts and collectible sale.
The Women’s Auxiliary will display theme baskets for all occasions,
Mothers' Day gifts, fresh baked goods, candies etc
Food and refreshments will be available.
Adults: $2/Adult, $1/Senior, Children under 12 FREE
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Bringing Up Baby Focus Tour
Sunday,
May 11, 2008
Regular
Village Admission
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COMMUNITY DAY AND QUILT SHOW
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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Travel back in time, through three centuries of Staten Island's history, and
experience the smells, sounds and pastoral sights of New York City's only living
history museum. Costumed interpreters will help you jump in the hay, play skittles
and nine-pins, feel wool as it is washed and spun, learn old-time games.
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The blacksmith will be forging a trammel to be used during open hearth cooking. As
the tinsmith uses a swedge to fashion patty pans of tin, miniature jelly tarts are
made in patty pans at the colonial farmhouse. Baskets for gathering seasonal
berries are woven at the Basketmaker's House. See how chair seats are made from
native plants.
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Don't forget to taste delicious morsels of historical cooking along
the way and go on a museum hunt in the 1890s Grocery Store.
Stephens-Black House will host Victorian parlor games; outdoor children's games will
be played in the yard from 1 to 3:00 p.m. Look for the game of "Graces, a toss and
catch game as challenging as "pepper", the baseball warm-up of today.
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Period gardens are blooming, especially the early American "Three Sisters" corn
patch, named after the American Indian custom of planting corn, pumpkins and beans
together in a companion system. Quilts made by members of the Moonlight Quilters of Staten Island will be on display.
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Bringing Up Baby - A Fathers' Day Focus Tour
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Regular
Village Admission
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OPEN VILLAGE
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
through
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Wednesday, July 4, 2008
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Celebrate
Independence Day the old fashioned way!
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Wednesday, July 8, 2008 to Sunday, July 26, 2008
(Tuesday - Saturday)
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Get your hands on history!
Enjoy an experience unlike any other found in New York City by joining
the Summer Apprentice Program at Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island.
Students, between the ages of 11- and 14-years-old, will grab mallets,
split logs, and learn skills in restored historic houses as if
time-traveling back a few hundred years ago.
Apprenticeships offered in Cooking & Housewifery, Tinsmithing and
Basketmaking
Open House on April 5, 2008 from 2:00 - 4:00.
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Register by calling
718-351-1611, Ext. 281.
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Sunday, July 12, 2008 5:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
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Enjoy colonial
style food cooked in the historic village, including brick-oven baked bread,
flame-roasted beef and turkey and salad with Thomas Jefferson's favorite salad
dressing. A Dutch colonial recipe for cabbage salad rounds out the assortment of
vegetables. Dessert includes seasonal fruit pies, cooked in the brick oven.
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Sample the lively entertainment offered by live music, celebratory toasts, early
American tavern games and authentically costumed cooks and servers.
Live music and home-cooked food. |
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The festivities also include a Victorian parlor game related to charades. Players
pose to create "living pictures," or tableaux vivant, that represent a famous scene,
person, myth, or painting. The other players guess what the tableaux represent.
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Pre-paid reservations required, call 718-351-1611, Ext. 280
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Sunday,
July 26, 2008 5:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
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Enjoy colonial
style food cooked in the historic village, including brick-oven baked
bread,
flame-roasted beef and turkey and salad with Thomas Jefferson's
favorite salad
dressing. A Dutch colonial recipe for cabbage salad rounds out the
assortment of
vegetables. Dessert includes seasonal fruit pies, cooked in the brick
oven.
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Sample the lively entertainment
offered by live music, celebratory toasts, early
American tavern games and authentically costumed cooks and servers.
Live music and home-cooked food. |
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The festivities also include a
Victorian parlor game related to charades. Players
pose to create "living pictures," or tableaux vivant, that represent a
famous scene,
person, myth, or painting. The other players guess what the tableaux
represent.
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Pre-paid reservations required, call 718-351-1611, Ext. 280
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Saturday,
August 10, 2008 (TENTATIVE)
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Wonderful Day of
FREE, Family-style Musical Entertainment
and Children’s Activities
Located on the
Grounds of Historic Richmond Town
Bring
Lawn
Chairs and Blankets
RAIN
OR SHINE
AUDIENCE TENT PROVIDED
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Saturday,
September 6, 2008 and
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Come join the fun, make family memories at the 28th annual
Richmond
County Fair at Historic Richmond Town
Includes: Amusement Rides; Entertainment; Games; Contests;
Demonstrations; Exhibits; Special Attractions & MORE !
(Does not include live animal rides.)
Visit our web site:
www.RichmondCountyFair.org
Sign-up Early for Sponsorships
&
Contests !
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Annual Meeting of the Members of the SIHS
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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Richmond Town Flea Market
Sunday, September 28,
2008 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
(Rain Date: October 5, 2008)
Admission: $2/person; Children under 16 free./Child
Interested Vendors call 718-351-1611 Ext. 236 for Registration Info
Vendor Space Available - contact S. Lundegard 718/351-1611
X-236.
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October Weekends in 2008
(Starting Saturday, October 4)
See NYC’s oldest continually farmed site, self-guided
tour, hay-ride, refreshments, children’s crafts and pumpkins
available for purchase.
Please call (718) 351-1611 x281 for more information.
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8 weeks, starts Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM
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Quilt making class teaches hand quilting for beginners and experienced quilters, taught by Carlotta and Carli DeFillo.
$55/person, $50/SIHS Members. Prepaid reservations.
Call (718) 351-1611,
Ext. 281. |
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The 4th Annual
Open House New York
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
and
Saturday, October 5, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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The Jacob Crocheron House, circa 1819, is an outstanding example of
Lower Hudson Valley Federal style architecture. It's form is
prototypical "Dutch Colonial". The symmetry is Georgian, and the style
of both the interior and exterior woodwork precisely dates the house.
Moved to Historic Richmond Town in 1987, the Crocheron House awaits
completed restoration and interpretation.
FREE admission to see the house.
The guided tour of Historic Richmond Town is available at regular admission.
openhouseny:
ONHY.org
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GOLF-A-PALOOZA
 
Monday, October 6, 2008
For more information call (718)
351-1611, Ext. 236
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Hear the blacksmith and tinsmiths at work, meet the chair-caner, lace-maker,
“colonial” cooks making bread and soup, see expert quilters and spinners
and more; try spinning wool yourself. Sample apple cider pressed before
your eyes.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Trick-or-treating in the historic village, crafts, apple bobbing, games and more!
Prepaid reservations are required, please call 718-351-1611
Ext. 281.
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Scary Stories at Decker Farm
Saturday, October 25, 2008
To celebrate Halloween, the Staten
Island Historical Society has looked in the darkest and dustiest corners of
its archives.
“Scary Stories at Decker Farm,” true or almost true, stories
based on the Staten Island Historical Society’s archival material.
Stories will be told around a blazing campfire. You will find your way
through the dark of night to a deserted basement in a house that's nearly
200 years old for additional tales from the vault, and some haunted verse.
If your nerves allow, you'll go on to two more buildings for horrifying,
unverifiable stories. Light refreshments will be enjoyed at the conclusion
of the program.
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Cooking Workshop
Sunday,
November 1, 2008
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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Imagine traveling back in
time to early America
and visiting in farmhouse kitchens, talking with folks about their
work.
The
recipes used have been gathered from materials in the library and
archives of the Staten Island Historical Society.
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In addition, some
recipes come from the collection of reproduction cookbooks of the
instructor, Carlotta DeFillo.
Participants will have a chance to cook together.
Some of the cooking methods
used in the workshop are only available in a colonial kitchen. The
recipes, including crumpets on a griddle and wafers in a wafer iron,
will be adapted for the modern kitchen so that participants can make
some of the dishes in their home kitchens.
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Prepaid reservations
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5 DUTCH DAYS IN 5 BOROUGHS:
DUTCH ARCHITECTURE
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COOKING ON STATEN ISLAND
Sunday, November 12, 2008 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sample Dutch-influenced architecture and recipes.
Tour farmhouses built circa 1690-1740 and learn to identify features of
Dutch architecture, sample and bring home copies of
“colonial” Dutch recipes.
Included with regular village admission.
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Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour
Saturday
and Sunday,
November 22
and November 23, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
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Tour the oldest kitchens on the site to discover the recipes and sources of Thanksgiving traditions.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
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Join Santa for hot buffet breakfast in the Third County Courthouse
SPONSORED BY THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
Prepaid reservations
required. Call 718-351-6308.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
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Get into the holiday spirit and
meet Santa for supper in the Third County Courthouse. A Christmas Tree
lighting follows the supper.
SPONSORED BY THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY of SIHS
Prepaid reservations
required. Call 718-351-6308.
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Saturday, November 29 2008
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Join your neighbors for our Community Tree lighting, caroling and the Jolly Old Fellow!
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Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Sponsored by the Society’s Women’s Auxiliary, come see the village bustling
with holiday cheer, ornament making and caroling. Holiday-themed gift baskets,
baked goods, hand-made crafts and refreshments are available for purchase.
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Admission to Christmas in Richmond Town: Free
Regular Village Admission
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Gingerbread Display and Contest
December 10, 2008
through
December 24, 2008
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Saturday. December 13, 2006
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Saturday. December 20, 2006
See 300 years of holiday traditions come alive: experience the music,
tastes and sounds of Historic Richmond Town at night, illuminated by
candles, oil lamps and the hearth.
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Prepaid reservations required, call 718-351-1611, Ext. 280 for tour times and reservations. |
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Friday, December 26, 2008
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Bring your favorite doll or teddy bear to meet other special friends at
our Victorian Christmas Tree. Refreshments and activities add to the fun.
Prepaid reservations required
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