Harvest Festival reaches 28 years at Farmers’ Museum
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COOPERSTOWN – The Farmers’ Museum’s historic village and farm will come alive with a wide array of entertainment, seasonal foods, and crafts during its annual celebration of the harvest season, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17. The 28th Annual Harvest Festival, held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, will target visitors of all ages to take in the museum’s lively and festive atmosphere, complete with musical performers, artisans, exhibitors, agricultural demonstrations, and food and craft vendors. Traditional harvest foods and the wares of craftspeople will be for sale, along with a host of activities for children and families to enjoy. Throughout the weekend, visitors can participate in games and races, horse-drawn wagon and tractor rides, the Wildlife Learning Company’s one-hour program, Raptors: Hunters of the Sky, and farm activities and domestic demonstrations, such as flax processing, rope making, cider pressing, medicine making, and food preparation over the open hearth. In addition, there will be an Antiques Appraisal Day as part of the scheduled activities, Sunday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Louis C. Jones Center at the Farmers’ Museum. This year, three well-known appraisers from the Hesse Galleries in Otego, professional Conservator C.R. Jones, and the curator and associate curator of collections from the New York State Historical Association and the Fenimore Art Museum, Doug Kendall and Andy Stupperich, will be present. For $25, the public is invited to bring two items for appraisal. Pre-registration is required and each participant will be given an informal 15 minute time slot to meet with the appraisers, who will provide information on dates, materials, condition, origin, and possible value of objects presented. The session is limited to 20 participants, so call soon to reserve a spot. To register, please call Bev Olmsted at 607-547-1416. Across the road from the Farmers’ Museum, visitors can see the exhibition At Home and On the Road: The Photographs of Milo Stewart, Sr. at the museum’s sister institution, the Fenimore Art Museum. This retrospective exhibition explores the Cooperstown resident and photographer’s works over the course of 40 years, including photography of Cooperstown, historical landmarks and Main streets throughout New York State, Octagon and Greek Revival buildings, and rural cemeteries, among other topics. The exhibit also incorporates photographs from Stewart’s travels abroad. In addition, the museum’s principal season exhibition Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation, an innovative retrospective on the life and work of the popular American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), will also be on view.
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