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October Events at Museums of Old York |
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Museums of Old York are closed for the season on October 7, but don’t let that trick you out of some treats. Special events continue all through the month of October and we have the complete schedule here. Events include scarecrow making, gallery shows, Marketfest, troubadour singing, Colonial hearth dinner, ghost stories, and a haunted house. (See details below)
October 3 “The Country Heer is Plentiful”: Trade, Religion and Warfare in York and Southern Maine. Enjoy a tour guided by Curator Cindi Young-Gomes for one of the final days of the Museum’s exhibition on York’s settlement period (1600s and early 1700s). The exhibition will end on October 6, which is the closing day of the museum’s 2012 season. At the Parsons Center, 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Run through York Adult and Community Education.
October 6 "Connections" Exhibit Opening at George Marshall Store Gallery. Works by Lissa Hunter and Carol Stein, with Tom Hall’s Maine Landscapes in the Dock Level Gallery. Exhibit opening, 5-7 p.m. Exhibit runs through Nov. 11. Sponsored by Ellis Insurance Agency. At the George Marshall Store Gallery, 140 Lindsay Road, York Maine.
October 9 Scarecrow Making. Make an old fashioned scarecrow to take home for your yard or to enter in the Marketfest scarecrow contest. Run in collaboration with York Parks & Rec. For more information, fees and registration, visit http://parksandrec.yorkmaine.org/. At the museum’s Parsons Center at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine from 3-4 p.m.
October 13 Marketfest at Old York! Watch the tavern mistress cook a full meal over the open fire in Jefferds Tavern and catch the final day of our 17th Century Exhibit in the Remick Gallery. Compete in traditional family games at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Help press apples into apple cider outside the Parsons Center. Check out the used and new book sale and visit the farm animals at the Emerson Wilcox House. Watch prisoner performances in the Old Gaol at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., and enjoy traditional craft demonstrations on Gaol Hill. Join us in York Village for an hour or come for the whole day!
October 14 Seacoast Guitar Society Presents....Trina Hamlin in concert. This modern troubadour is an unusually talented guitar, harmonica and piano player, a wonderful singer, a compelling and powerful performer as well as a prolific songwriter. Originally from Minnesota, Trina lives in New York, and has released 5 solo albums of her original songs and imaginative covers of folk, rock, blues and jazz classics. She has performed on the Conan O'Brien show and her music has been featured in a number of films and TV shows. Tickets are $15/ $8 students, available at the door, by phone (207-262-1886), online at www.seacoastguitar.org and at the Museums of Old York. Doors open at 6 p.m. at the Parsons Center at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine.
October 15 Hearth Cooking. Cook a full meal on the hearth and then sit down to eat it! Zoe Keefer-Norris, Education Director at the Museums of Old York, will instruct in the preparation of a meal using Dutch ovens, the beehive oven, and the arm over the fire. At the Parsons Center, at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine, from 6 to 8 p.m. Program offered through York Adult and Community Education.
October 25 Colonial Hearth Cooking. Travel back in time for four weeks of Colonial hearth cooking. Join a Colonial mistress at the Museums of Old York to make pie, soup, bread, pudding and more on the open fire. Learn how to cook in a Dutch oven, boil soup in a pot on the fireplace crane and bake in the bee hive oven. When the cooking is done enjoy the delicious recipes you have prepared. Grades 5th – 8th. At the Parsons Center, at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine from 2-4pm. This program is limited to ten students. A second class will be added if demand requires. For more information, fees and registration, visit http://parksandrec.yorkmaine.org/.
October 26 ‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Tavern Dinner, just a few nights before All Hallows’ Eve. Join us by the hearth in Jefferds Tavern for a dinner made from autumn’s bounty. Menu will be announced in early October. Guests are encouraged to wear black. At the Parsons Center, at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine beginning at 6:30 p.m. Reservations required. $30 members/$35 non-members.
October 27 Ghosts of Smuttynose. Join the York Parks and Recreation Department in collaboration with the Museums of Old York as they present this Halloween event that is both scary and sweet. Actors will be performing in the historic Jefferds Tavern the tale of Louis Wagner, the famed villain of the Smuttynose murders. Guests will be lead through the tavern in a haunted house tour filled with anticipation and chills. This one-of-a-kind event blends theater with a traditional haunted house. George Hosker-Bouley, theater teacher for the York Parks and Recreation Department, will write and direct this event. George is the founder and performer of The Portsmouth Underbelly Tour, former executive and artistic director of the Prescott Park Arts Festival and winner of more than 17 Spotlight on the Arts awards. At the Parsons Center, at 3 Lindsay Road, York Maine from 6- 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, all ages, include ghost tour and dessert bar. For more information, fees and registration, visithttp://parksandrec.yorkmaine.org/.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Museums of Old York’s historic buildings will close for the season for general public admission and tours from October 7, 2012 until May 27, 2013. The library and archives will continue to open on Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30 – 4, and public programs and events will continue to be run throughout the fall, winter and spring, on some parts of the museum campus. Tours of some of the museum’s historic buildings may be arranged by appointment by email or by calling(207) 363-4974.