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2009
Events Previous Years Events 2007 and 2008
May 1 – November 1 Memorial Hall Museum open for the season Museum Hours: 11 am – 5 pm, 7 days a week. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for youth and students aged 6 – 21.
Memorial Hall Museums special exhibit “Old Deerfield’s Pageants & Performances” and summer concert series are part of the Pioneer Valley History Network's 2009 summer theme, Vacationing in the Valley: A Look at Leisure in the Pioneer Valley
July 4 Band Concert
Old Deerfield Sunday Afternoon Concert Series *** July 12 - Deerfield Piano Trio - Anthony Berner, Violin; Mark Fraser, Cello; Sooka Wang, Piano ***
July 19 - Lisa Woods, Mezzo-Soprano *** July 26 - Deborah Wyndham, Piano http://deborahwyndham.com/home.html ***
August 2 - Diana Fanning, Piano http://community.middlebury.edu/~fanning/
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August 9 - Ken Forfia, Piano *** August 16 - Carla Chrisfield, Soprano ***
August 23 - Gregory Valtchev, Violin ***
August 30 - The Pioneer Consort
This program is
sponsored in part by the Deerfield Cultural Council,
August – October Indian House Memorial Children’s Museum
September* Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Annual Dinner Meeting
September 19 & 20 Old Deerfield Fall Craft Fair
October 4 Seventeenth Annual Eastern European Festival
November 7th & 8th Annual Franklin County CiderDay
November 27, 28, & 29 Old Deerfield Christmas Sampler
Previous 2009 Events April 4 & 5 Old Deerfield Spring Sampler Craft Fair
Old Deerfield Spring Sampler Craft Fair at the Eastern States Exposition’s Young Building in West Springfield, MA. Open Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm, & Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is $6 for adults; $1 for children under 12. Discount coupons are available on our website. There will be free demonstrations by crafters and a chance to win $50 gas cards and other prizes – multiple winners each day!
April 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, & 26 Staged Production of My Ántonia at the Deerfield Teachers’ Center
As part of this year’s Big Read Project, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association and Lady of the Lake Productions will present My Ántonia, a play for the stage by Charles Jones, adapted from Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia. The performances will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, April 17, 18, 24, & 25 at 8 pm, with Sunday matinees on April 19 & 26 at 2 pm in the Blue & White Room of the Deerfield Teachers’ Center at 10 Memorial Street, Deerfield. Tickets are $12 for general admission, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students 18 and under. June 20 & 21 Old Deerfield Summer Craft Fair
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Museum
Special Exhibits – HELD OVER BY REQUEST FOR 2009!
There
will be a band concert to celebrate the Fourth of July on Saturday at
3 pm, in front of the Old Town Hall. Free.
Open
11 am – 5 pm daily in August, and on weekends only from September
5th through October 11th. The first floor only is open for viewing and
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. Admission is a choice on the MEMORIAL
HALL SINGLE BUILDING ticket. All others: $6 for adults, $3 for students
(age 13-18), and children 12 and under are free. The door is kept locked,
so please ring the bell for admission..jpg)
Join
us for a Celebration of Polish, Ukrainian, and other Eastern European
cultures with ethnic food, dancing, music, books, and crafts, plus the
4th
CiderDay
is a community event celebrating all things apple in Franklin County,
Massachusetts. 2009 marks the 15th year of this event which traditionally
includes orchard tours, cider making and tastings, a dinner, workshops
and much more. This event is for all who love apples, fresh or hard cider,
apple cuisine, apple orchards or just being in New England in the fall.
There is a small charge for some of the activities but there is no admission
for the self-guided tour of the orchards. For more information, go to
http://www.ciderday.com. 
