Hearth & Harvest Weekend

DISCOVER THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING RECIPES AND TRADITIONS

Saturday, 11/20 & Sunday 11/21 — 12pm-5pm

Included with Museum Admission, advance ticket sales available.

Costumed interpreters prepare dishes using 18th & 19th century recipes, tools and techniques in historic kitchens throughout the village.

Harvest celebrations have been a part a part of Native culture for thousands of years. After a long growing season, crops would be gathered in abundance, and shared with family and the wider community, signaling the beginning of winter. Native peoples shared food, land, and knowledge with English settlers which informed their agricultural practice. The ‘First Thanksgiving’ was celebrated in 1621, and today, Thanksgiving meals are a blend of Native American and European ingredients and traditions.

WHAT’S IN STORE:

• Museum: Participate in a self-guided Museum scavenger hunt themed for the harvest season! Take a historic recipe home with you. Share your harvest festival stories, practices and menus with us!
• Stephens House: Tour a Victorian-era kitchen and learn about the 19th-century roots of the Thanksgiving holiday we celebrate today.
• Christopher House: Discover foods native to the Americas. Sample cornbread with apple butter.
• Basketmakers House: Taste sweet potato and apples cooked in a Dutch oven.
• Guyon-Lake Tysen House: Watch a reflector oven cook meat by an open hearth fire.
• Special presentation by indigenous people.

COVID-19

• Proof of vaccination is required for visitors age 12 and up.

Ticketing

• Tickets are $10, and may be purchased online in advance or at the 3rd County Courthouse visitor center.