Two days of family-friendly, interactive, and educational fun are planned for Historic Cold Spring Village’s “Hands-on History” Weekend!
Saturday, Aug. 10th and Sunday, Aug. 11th from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Children will be given a Village “Pastport” at the start of their Village trip, which can be stamped at the buildings they visit after completing a task or activity. Completed Pastports can be presented in the Country Store for a prize! Other family-friendly activities include games and live entertainment from traditional musicians Mary Roth and John & Jan Haiges, wool dying and beehive oven cooking demonstrations by Erin Peeks, and electrifying demonstrations by Benjamin Franklin.
Scheduled for 1pm in the Visitor Welcome Center you can join local historian and Historic Cold Spring Village interpreter Margaret Strolle (BA, College of William and Mary; MA, Villanova University) to learn about the wide role fashion and dress played in Early America from getting the clothes on backs to how they reflected domestic and international politics.
Program Title: Handcrafting an American Style, 1700-1865
Description: In Early America, fashion and dress played an important role in everyday life and society. In early America Cape May County, many women made their own and their family’s clothes from scratch with help from family and neighbors. However, as the Industrial Revolution went on, innovations allowed more American women to both participate in the fashionable world and potentially lessen their labor spent on clothing. Discussions sprouted on what role fashion should play in the young United States and how it should shape its citizens.
This weekend is generously Sponsored by: PNC Bank
