Come meet our newly shorn sheep and talk with shepherd Schuyler Beeman about the joys and challenges of raising sheep. We’ll also let you try your hand at making yarn from the fleece though washing, picking, carding and spinning. (No fee or registration)
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONCome spend a weekend engaged in the daily activities of women living on small farms in New England in the late nineteenth century. Activities include sewing, washing, ironing, writing a letter, reading magazines, tending to sheep and chickens, making bread, butter, and shrub. If you would like to sew a period appropriate outfit to wear, we […]
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONCome help make butter from cream using a traditional churn as well as one made of glass so you can see the process. Then tour our new milkhouse exhibit to explore the role that dairy and buttermaking played on the Dudley Farm. (No fee or registration)
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONEach week we’ll focus on one object from the Dudley Farm museum collections and explore what stories can be generated from different perspectives. Objects will include: Amy Dudley’s book of cloth scraps, a stone tool from 7000 years ago, and a 19 th -century mushball. Discussion will be limited to 15 people to allow for […]
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONThe Dudley Farm’s Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum invites you to a special event with Deborah Spears Moorehead, as she brings to life in a dramatic and captivating manner the traditional stories of the Wampanoag people, stories that have been passed down for generations that preserve and perpetuate the history and culture of not just the Wampanoag, […]
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONOur world is highly chaotic and there is a lot of stress. In overwhelming times, people over the millennia have returned to their creation stories to become recentered. This workshop will revisit a variety of creation myths from around the world, including Egyptian, Celtic, and Native American. After lunch (fee), we will discuss how mandalas have served as a universal […]
READ FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONFor many thousands of years, before the introduction of the bow and arrow 2,000 years ago, the primary weapon of the Indigenous people of Southern New England was the atlatl; a short thin five to six foot spear tipped with a stone projectile point and thrown using a throwing stick. Come see a demonstration using […]
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2351 Durham Road
Guilford, CT 06437
Museum (203) 457-0770
Munger Barn (203) 457-9768
