[IHHAAC Update] Accokeek Foundation Announces Colonial Themed Classes, Workshops, and Events

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Press Release

Contact: Kathy Talbot

Phone: 301.283.2113, ext 32

Email: ktalbot at accokeek.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 


Accokeek Foundation Announces Colonial Themed Classes, Workshops, and Events


 

The Accokeek Foundation is pleased to announce new and returning colonial
themed classes, workshops, and events. "We've created programs and events
for adults and children which will allow them to see and feel what life was
like 'way back when'," says Kathy Talbot, Manager of Special Events and
Training. Through classes, visitors can experience what it took to make a
meal, or make candles, hands-on. Monthly demonstrations at the National
Colonial Farm will allow visitors to see what foods were generally prepared
on a seasonal basis. 

 

Colonial Cooking Class

Saturday, June 7, 2008, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  OR Saturday, September 13,
2008

Rain or Shine, $20 Non-Members, $15 Members, Class Size is Limited to 10,
Registration Required

This hands-on, open-hearth cooking workshop focuses on "receipts" from the
18th century. With the help of our historic interpreter, Ellyn Mary Farrar,
learn fire-keeping, the use of 18th century culinary equipment, and creation
of a complete meal using ingredients appropriate to the season.

 

Colonial Foodways

Saturday, June 21, 2008
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
3rd Saturdays Monthly from March through December
National Colonial Farm, Rain or Shine
Admission Fee Required, Members Free

Love food? Ever wonder how people cooked before microwaves or what people
ate before fast food? Join us the 3rd Saturday monthly as costumed
interpreters demonstrate preparation of foods, representative of "middling"
sort tobacco growing families in the late 1700s in Prince George's County,
Maryland. Demonstrations vary monthly, and involve seasonally available
foods, colonial implements and methods. Foodways events will also run on
these dates:

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Colonial Ways and Days for Children

Monday-Friday, July 7-11, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Rain or Shine,
Registration Required, Admission Fee

Ever wonder what life was really like for young people living on a Colonial
farm? Find out in this time-traveling adventure workshop! Through art,
drama, and hands-on experiences, step back in time to explore what you would
eat, wear, and do "back then." With colonial games, crafts and stories, you
will feel like you are really there! This five-day workshop is a
collaboration with the National Children's Museum. For questions, or to
register, please contact Lisa Hayes at 301.283.2113, ext. 18 or by email at
lhayes at accokeek.org.

 

Colonial Day

Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Rain or Shine, Admission Fee Required Members Free

1st 25 Families Visitors Free Membership to the Accokeek Foundation* 

Join the Bolton Family on the National Colonial Farm in celebrating the
annual harvest. Experience scenes of life from the late 1770s. Observe
colonial demonstrators. Kids, check out the progress of the corn you planted
at Children's Day!

 

Colonial Candle-Making Class

Saturday, October 18, 2008, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Rain or Shine, $20 Non-Members, $15 Members, Class Size is Limited to 10,
Registration Required

Learn the art of candle-making in this hands-on workshop. We'll discuss
wicks, waxes, uses of candles in the 1700s, safety, recipes and ideas for
making your own candles at home. 

 

For more information about this and other events or classes, please visit
the Accokeek Foundation's web site at www.accokeek.org
<http://www.accokeek.org/> .

 

The Accokeek Foundation

3400 Bryan Point Road

Accokeek, Maryland 20607

301.283.2113

 

Founded fifty years ago to protect the view across the Potomac River from
Mount Vernon, the Accokeek Foundation, an educational non-profit, became one
of the nation's first land trusts. Today, the Foundation stewards 200 acres
of Piscataway National Park in Accokeek, Maryland, where visitors can hike a
network of trails winding through wetlands, visit a native tree arboretum,
and observe an award-winning forest restoration project. To emphasize the
connection between nature and history, part of the site includes the
National Colonial Farm, a living history museum that depicts a Maryland
middle-class family farm on the eve of the American Revolution. Nearly
extinct historic crops and animals are preserved here for future
generations. The Foundation's organic Ecosystem Farm emphasizes the future
of agriculture as organic farmers learn the tools of a new trade, practice
sustainable use of natural resources, and shares of the farms produce are
sold to households in the community.  The park's beautiful grounds, trails
and programs are open to the public year round.

 

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