Join in a celebration of historic and traditional cooking techniques of America’s past at Historic Cold Spring Village’s annual Foodways and Folklife weekend event, Saturday and Sunday, July 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to learn and experience the methods, styles and heritage of American food preparation and recipes in the 1800s. This event is sponsored by Chris Cleman and Co. Inc. Realtors.
Observe open-hearth cooking, bake oven demonstrations, pit cooking, and a variety of unique and fascinating historic cooking techniques demonstrated by the Historic Foodways Society of Delaware Valley. Learn about herbs and their many uses, collect recipes from Villagers, and interact with various trades and crafts from the “age of homespun”. Experience authentic wool production with a program demonstrating traditional washing, dyeing, and spinning with sheep shearing in the afternoons. Enjoy dulcimer music and interactive music programs with folk singer Bonnie Leigh, whose “historical programs take you back to a time of our ancestors and our American folk music’s history” (visit www.bonnieleigh.com for more artist information). Papermaking by the Philadelphia Handmade Paper Company will be featured all weekend, as well as special candlemaking programs. Children can try their hand at special craft activities and participate in 19th century games and dress-up.
Fun and educational activities for children are featured Tuesday through Sunday from June 17, to August 31. Historic Cold Spring Village is a non-profit, open air living history museum that portrays the daily life of a rural South Jersey community of the Early American period. It features 26 restored historic structures on a wooded 22-acre site. From late June to early September, interpreters and artisans in period clothing preserve the trades, crafts and heritage of “The Age of Homespun.”
Historic Cold Spring Village is located on Route 9 between Cape May and Rio
Grande. HCSV is open 10:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, (closed Mondays)
from June 17, to August 31, as well as the weekends of September 6, and 7, 13 and 14 and October 18. Admission during the season is $8.00 for adults, $7.00 for seniors (62 and over) and $6.00 for children ages 3 to 12. Children under 3 are admitted free. Unlimited free admission is available with membership in the Friends of Historic Cold Spring Village. For more information on employment, events, memberships or volunteering, call (609) 898-2300, ext. 10 or visit the Village website at www.hcsv.org.
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