This Saturday 11/16 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. is the final day of our Historic Trade Events in 2024! See gravestone carving with Allison Steel, powder horn carving with Laurie McCarthy, and redware pottery with Stephen Earp! Included with general admission.

Our next annual conference, in June 2025, will be on the topic of “Recalling the Revolution in New England”. How has the region commemorated, historicized, promulgated, and forgotten the American Revolution? Here is the call for papers: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

For winter, join us at the Flynt Center for free weekends from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until February 23! Over the winter we also offer kid-friendly programs, open hearth cooking workshops, virtual lectures, meals at Champney’s!

Rev250 resource of the day — The DublinSeminar for New England Folklife invites proposals for papers about “Recalling the Revolution in New England” for a conference at Historic Deerfield Historic Deerfield on June 27–28, 2025. Proposal deadline January 13: buff.ly/4ijFOW4

A picturesque example of “Recalling the Revolution in New England,” which happens to be the topic of our next conference co-sponsored with Historic New England and taking place at Historic Deerfield in June 2025.

Rev250 resource of the day — The DublinSeminar for New England Folklife welcomes proposals for papers about “Recalling the Revolution in New England” for a conference at Historic Deerfield Historic Deerfield on June 27–28, 2025. Proposal deadline January 13: buff.ly/4ijFOW4

Call for papers! DublinSeminar welcomes proposals for papers and presentations that address the ways the people of New England have looked at the nation’s founding—and what they forgot, or chose to forget, in the process. Deadline: January 13, 2025. historic-deerfield.org/call-for-paper…

An article from our colleagues at Historic Deerfield at how America’s Revolutionary conflict reached down to the culinary level. Just the sort of folk experience we’re remembering in our June 2025 at Deerfield. See the call for papers here: dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

Ready to cook up some fun? On February 19, 2025 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., join us at Hall Tavern for a hands-on cooking adventure at our Kids Can Cook Workshop! Cost: $25 /person (Members: $20/person) Sign up early to reserve your spot! historic-deerfield.org/events/cooking…

May the enduring traditions of the holiday season warm your heart and fill your home with joy. Best wishes from Historic Deerfield during this holiday season!

The Flynt Center of New England Life is open this winter with free admission! We have 3 exhibitions on view—In Pursuit of the Picturesque, Building a Collection, and Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection. Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays through Feb. 23.

We're thrilled for what 2025 has in store here at Historic Deerfield, including a free Winter Lecture Series, a new exhibition exploring the evolution of clothing, workshops & demonstrations, and special events! We look forward to seeing you this year! historic-deerfield.org/events/

New year, new book! The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution 07/01/2025 release (available for pre-order now!) Harvard University Press I hope you’ll agree the cover is LIT

We’re already receiving proposals for papers at our June 2025 conference on “Recalling the Revolution in New England” with the deadline still a a week away! So now’s the time to submit your great work on how the memory of the Revolution has evolved – dublin-seminar.org/our-2025-confe…

We’re already receiving proposals for papers at our June 2025 conference on “Recalling the Revolution in New England,” and the deadline is still a a week away! So now’s the time to submit your great work on how the memory of the Revolution has changed – buff.ly/4ijFOW4

Do you have research to share on how New Englanders have remembered the American Revolution? Or misremembered, or forgotten, or rethought it? Propose a presentation at our June 27–28 conference in Deerfield. Proposal deadline is Monday, January 13 – buff.ly/4ijFOW4

(In the spirit of the pre-Revolutionary New England merchant community, we won’t look askance if you smuggle your fine proposal in a little past the deadline.)

Historic Deerfield welcomes a new Memorial Libraries Research Fellow, Katie Lincoln, a MA student in Historical Archaeology at UMass Boston, working on her thesis “Life on Old Crag: A Spatial Examination of Community and Economic Relations in Rural 19th Century Massachusetts.”

In the next episode of our podcast, The Object of History, airing on 15 Jan 2025, we visit Old North and learn about how a playwright recently used their papers Massachusetts Historical Society to develop a captivating performance. Download wherever you listen to podcasts.

Rev250 quote of the day — #OTD January 14, 1775, Ipswich’s minute company formed, the men pledging “we will immediately, each of us, provide for & equip himself, with an effective arm, Bayonet, Pouch, Knapsack, & Thirty rounds of Cartridges ready made.”