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Last
Year's Events
Coming this autumn "The Big Read" ...an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Chet Yazwinski, Jr., Chief of the Deerfield Fire Department and "Big Read" member.
March 31 & April 1 Old Deerfield Spring Sampler Show
July 4
----- May 20
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for
Democracy
---- June 23 & 24 The Old Deerfield Summer Craft Fair and Art Fest, held in the center of one New England’s most beautiful and celebrated villages, returns Saturday and Sunday, June 23 & 24.
----- July- August Deerfield Sunday Afternoon Concert Series. Chamber music in the lovely Victorian setting of the museum's music room at 3 p.m. on Sundays through July and August. Admission $5.00.
The Pioneer Consort - Chris Devine: Violin; Michael Nix: Banjar; Greg Snedeker: Cello 2007 Old Deerfield Sunday Afternoon
Concert Series July 15- Amicus Trio July 22- Carla Chrisfield, Soprano August 5- Jeanne Farewell, Piano August 12- Laura Siersema, Keyboard and Vocal August 19- Gregory Valtchev,
Violin August 26- The Pioneer Consort
This program
is sponsored in part by the Deerfield Cultural Council,
----- September 13th
Lecture:
"Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: Native American Beaded Bags"
Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, MA, will present a lecture by Gerry Biron titled “Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beaded Bags of the Northeast” on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 at 7 pm. Based on the exhibition currently on view, collector, artist and independent researcher Gerry Biron will share his passion for American Indian beaded bags. The presentation will survey tourist or “souvenir” purses made by Wabanaki (Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq) from Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada; and the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (Tuscarora, Seneca, and Mohawk), from New York and Canada in the 19th century and the influences that led to its development. Mr. Biron has spent over two decades researching and putting this collection together, and he has written extensively about his beadwork collection. As well, Mr. Biron’s portraits of the people who created the beadwork will combine to merge history and art in a discussion that promises to give greater meaning to this extraordinary art form. The exhibition Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast includes over 100 exquisitely beaded bags and hats created between 1800 and 1915, the work of artistic Native American women living in New England, New York, and the Maritime Provinces. Twelve contemporary paintings of Natives with the beadwork by Gerry Biron, a Vermont artist of Mi’kmaq descent, accompany the beadwork. Consistent in all of Gerry Biron’s portraits are the exquisite beaded bags held or worn by the sitters which are included in the exhibition. Memorial Hall Museum is located at 8 Memorial Street, Deerfield, MA, and it is open daily from 11 to 5:00. For information on the museum, call 413-774-3768 x10 or visit the museum’s website at www.deerfield-ma.org. -----
September 22 & 23 Old Deerfield Fall Craft Fair and Quilt & Fiber Fest The Art & the Craft of the Book! To kick off the museum’s Fahrenheit 451 BIG READ project and the Pioneer Valley region-wide BOOKMARKS! celebration this fall, many book-related arts and crafts have been added to the festival’s vast variety of arts and crafts. The Old Deerfield Fall Craft Fair and Quilt Fest, held at Memorial Hall Museum in the center of one of New England’s most beautiful and celebrated villages, returns Sat. and Sun., September 22nd & 23rd. On the lush, museum grounds under trees edged with autumn gold: • Meet 200 friendly, creative artisans from near
and far—with everything from traditional to contemporary crafts
and fine arts—pottery, photography, painting, pen & ink drawings,
wood block prints, fine glass—and jewelry!!!; What a bargain at just $7 for admission to the fair! Go to our website and print out discount coupons at www.deerfield-craft.org, plus have a chance to win one of many $50 gas cards! • And be sure to explore the world’s largest candle store at Yankee Candle Village—the Old Deerfield Craft Fair’s corporate sponsor—pick up a discount coupon at their craft fair booth! The Old Deerfield Fall Festival weekend is the time to rediscover the world-famous sights, sounds, scents, and tastes of Deerfield. Come see us September 22nd and 23rd! Check the event schedule and get discount coupons
for admission at www.deerfield-craft.org.
----- September 30 15th Annual Eastern European Festival
In the spirit of a “Dozynki” or Polish harvest festival, visitors will enjoy music, dance, demonstrations, shopping, and of course, food. The Memorial Hall Museum grounds and the entire “Old Deerfield Acropolis” (the group of historic buildings surrounding the museum) will be filled with the sights and sounds of Eastern Europe. Admission is $5 for adults; children are free. The Czarniecki Division, “the proudest and most distinguished cavalry unit in the service of King Jan Kazimierz,” will invade the village of Old Deerfield, Sunday, September 30th for the annual Eastern European Festival hosted by Memorial Hall Museum. This band of Polish knights in period costume, weaponry and armor will make camp in the center of the festival with a Turkish tent. Throughout the festival they will demonstrate how a military unit in the 17th century Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth lived and fought. Another feature of this year’s festival will be a Pysanki egg show in Memorial Hall Museum from 12 until 4 pm sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island Council for theArts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council featuring Carol Kostecki, a Pysanki artist for more than fifteen years under the advanced tutelage of Father Paul Luniw, Master Pysanky Artist. Mrs. Kostecki and Father Luniw will give demonstrations throughout the afternoon. ----- August (Daily) and Weekends Sept. 2-Oct 9 Old Deerfield Children’s Museum & Family Program at the Indian House Memorial Admission is included on the ALL OF DEERFIELD ticket and is a choice on the MEMORIAL HALL SINGLE BUILDING ticket. All others: Adults $6.00, Student: $3.00 (age 13-18), Child: Free (through age 12) Hours: 11:00A.M. - 5:00 P.M. daily the month of August, 2007. Weekends Sept. 2 through Oct. 9, 2007. The first floor is open for viewing and hands-on activities. The door is kept locked. Please ring the bell for admission. Ongoing hands-on activities: Dress in 18th century clothing, try out a straw mattress, play with old-time toys, card and spin wool, read from a hornbook and write with a quill pen, make a tavern game, carry buckets with a yoke on your shoulders, find out what's for dinner in a 1700 kitchen, and mind your 18th century manners. This program is sponsored in part by the Amherst, Conway, Deerfield, Greenfield, and Whately Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
----- May 1 - Nov. 4 Memorial
Hall Museum
opens for the season. Special Exhibits: See our Exhibitions page. Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast
Sponsored in part by the International Music and Art Foundation Old Deerfield Fifth Biennial Quilt Challenge Quilts will be exhibited at Memorial
Hall Museum May 1 to November 4, 2007.
Marsha Molloy, /A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words,/ 2007. ---
October 27 Franklin County Fiber Twist Saturday Oct 27, 10:00AM to 5:00 PM “Memorial Hall Museum at 10 Memorial Street in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, is pleased to be a special feature of the Fiber Twist this year. The museum recognizes fiber in its many embodiments as both the past and the future for western New England. The production of "fiber" is central to the history of New England—sheep shears, spinning wheels, niddy-noddies, dye pots and looms fill our local historical societies and museums--including Memorial Hall which will be open during the Fiber Twist for your inspection (see the 3rd floor Tool Room for a massive display.)” “Fiber also played a very important
role in Old Deerfield's late 19th Century world-renown crafts revival--especially
the work of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Attendees of the Fiber Twist weekend can
pick up a coupon for free admission to Memorial Hall Museum, adjacent
to the Fiber Twist Marketplace being held in Old Deerfield at 10 Memorial
Street. The coupon is good also for the Old Deerfield Children’s
Museum at Indian House on the Main Street of Old Deerfield, four houses
north of the Deerfield Inn. Special hands-on fiber activities will be
available at the Children’s Museum—and hopefully, if they
are out grazing along the Mohawk-Mohegan Trail (Channing Blake Meadow
Walk), sightings of the Yazwinski Farm’s sheep who live next door
to the Children’s Museum. www.fibertwist.com ----- November 16,17 & 18 Old Deerfield Christmas Sampler
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Band
Concert (Free)
3 P.M. in front of the Old Town Hall
Jane
Addams was one of the most famous women in the United States during the
first third of the twentieth century. In 1889, she founded Hull House,
the best known of all the settlement house experiments, and in the years
following became a leading figure in the Progressive Era campaigns for
uncorrupt city government and female suffrage, and a founder of the NAACP
and the ACLU. Come find out about her and a connection she had
to Deerfield as well as the author’s ties to the Wilby family of
Deerfield. Cloth and paperback editions of Citizen
will be available for purchase ($35.00 Cloth; $22.50 Paper). PVMA members
receive a 10% discount.
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Polish
Knights Invade Old Deerfield
20th
annual craft fair held at the Eastern States Exposition Grounds in West
Springfield, MA. Combines the traditions of Christmas and Old Deerfield.
300 exhibitors. Friday 2-8, Sat. 9-5, and Sun. 10-5. Admission is $8 for
adults and $1 for children 6 - 12. (
