Dan Raymond House Museum / Mark Dewey Research Center / Old Stone Store 137-161 Main Street | P.O. Box 747 | Sheffield, MA 01257
Visit us at the Old Stone Store Weekends 11am-4pm
Heritage Festival & Family Feast
Join us on Saturday August 24, from 5-8 for a feast for the ages. Included with your ticket will be a smorgasbord of historic food, smokehouse bbq, drinks and dessert.
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Social Hour 5:00-6:00
Smoked sausage & cheese
Beer tasting courtesy of Big Elm Brewing
Dinner 6:00-8:00
Assortment of smokehouse meats including chicken, brisket,
ribs, pork loin and pork & beans
Vegetarian Baked Beans
Cornbread Pudding
Green Bean Casserole
Tomato & Onion Salad
Coleslaw
German Potato Salad
Sweet Potato & Apple Casserole
Brown Bread
Dessert
Assorted cobblers & crisps with ice cream
Drinks
Unsweetened Ice Tea
Lemonade
Social Hour 5:00-6:00
Smoked sausage & cheese
Beer tasting courtesy of Big Elm Brewing
Dinner 6:00-8:00
Assortment of smokehouse meats including chicken, brisket,
ribs, pork loin and pork & beans
Vegetarian Baked Beans
Cornbread Pudding
Green Bean Casserole
Tomato & Onion Salad
Coleslaw
German Potato Salad
Sweet Potato & Apple Casserole
Brown Bread
Dessert
Assorted cobblers & crisps with ice cream
Drinks
Unsweetened Ice Tea
Lemonade
We welcome Business & Individual Sponsorships (each level named for a historic Sheffield locale). Sponsors will be acknowledged in printed event materials, on our website, in email campaigns and in social media. (please indicate in the message section of the checkout if you prefer to remain anonymous in promotional & event materials)
We'd Like to thank the our Sponsors for the 2019 Heritage Festival and Family Feast
K.C. Clow
Great Barrington Big Y
Wheeler & Taylor Insurance
Big Elm Brewing
Cole Engineering & Construction
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Be part of the 10th annual “Mumbet Walk to Freedom” pledge walk commemorating Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, the enslaved African woman who successfully sued for her freedom in 1781 and set the stage for the emancipation of all slaves in Massachusetts by 1783.
Join the walkers at 9:30 am in front of the Ashley House (117 Cooper Hill Road, Ashley Falls) and walk the 4 miles to the Theodore Sedgwick House on Main Street in Sheffield. Theodore Sedgwick was the lawyer who successfully took on her case.This is a pledge walk so the Elizabeth Freeman Committee hopes you would consider donating to the charity the walk supports, RAICES. If you can’t join the walk you can be part of the commemoration in town. At 11:00 am in front of the Sedgwick House, Rep. Smitty Pignatelli will read the proclamation and a Senate citation honoring Mumbet. Follwing that, at the Sheffield Historical Society Grounds (next to Town Hall parking lot), Tammy Denease will perform her one-woman show about Mumbet and Barbara Dean will perform songs written about Mumbet. There will be a book signing by Ann-Elizabeth Barnes and Jana Laiz for their book on Mumbet. 100% of the book sale proceeds will go to charity. |
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Current Exhibit
As many of you know, Sheffield is a hub for craftsmen who build pieces that are simultaneously functional and beautiful works of art. Our summer exhibit, “The Handcrafted Boat” displays the skin-on-frame boats of the Berkshire Boat Building School. Hilary Russell and his students create these exquisite boats using traditional methods, such as hand-steaming frame pieces and using lashing instead of screws. The end result is a boat whose strength and beauty reflects designs that were perfected over centuries by cultures around the world.
The exhibit runs from July 6 through September 1 at the Old Stone Store, weekends 11 am to 4 pm and is free and open to the public. It includes scale models of traditional skin-on-frame boats and information on the historical use of the boats as well as those who carry on the traditional craft of building them today.
As many of you know, Sheffield is a hub for craftsmen who build pieces that are simultaneously functional and beautiful works of art. Our summer exhibit, “The Handcrafted Boat” displays the skin-on-frame boats of the Berkshire Boat Building School. Hilary Russell and his students create these exquisite boats using traditional methods, such as hand-steaming frame pieces and using lashing instead of screws. The end result is a boat whose strength and beauty reflects designs that were perfected over centuries by cultures around the world.
The exhibit runs from July 6 through September 1 at the Old Stone Store, weekends 11 am to 4 pm and is free and open to the public. It includes scale models of traditional skin-on-frame boats and information on the historical use of the boats as well as those who carry on the traditional craft of building them today.
Canoe Raffle
Earlier this spring Hilary led a small group of Historical Society members in building a canoe that we are now raffling off. Money raised will go to building storage for our larger museum pieces, including an Iroquois dugout canoe and a 19th-century carriage. Raffle tickets are $5 a piece or 3 for $10 and can be purchased below or at the Old Stone Store. The winner will be announced in October. For more details about any of the things the Society does contact us at sheffieldhistoricalsociety@gmail.com or 413-229-2694.
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WATCH the TV Segment about the Sheffield Historical Society
Click below to watch "Main Streets and Back Roads" segment on the Sheffield Historical Society. Make sure to check out the other segments on Sheffield, including Tony Carlotto's Rolling Rock Farm, Magic Fluke, Bartholomew's Cobble, Mill River Farm & Sheffield antiques stores.
http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle
Click below to watch "Main Streets and Back Roads" segment on the Sheffield Historical Society. Make sure to check out the other segments on Sheffield, including Tony Carlotto's Rolling Rock Farm, Magic Fluke, Bartholomew's Cobble, Mill River Farm & Sheffield antiques stores.
http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle
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Sheffield Historical Society
Dan Raymond House
Jennifer Owens, Administrator
sheffieldhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
413-229-2694
Office Hours
Tuesday & Friday 10:00 am- 3:00 pm
Mark Dewey Research Center
James Miller, Archivist
K.C. Clow, Volunteer
mdrc@sheffieldhistory.org
413-229-3682
Office Hours
Monday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Friday 1:30pm-4:00pm
or by appointment
Sheffield Historical Society
P.O. Box 747
159-161 Main St.
Sheffield, MA 01257
Visit us at Facebook
Dan Raymond House
Jennifer Owens, Administrator
sheffieldhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
413-229-2694
Office Hours
Tuesday & Friday 10:00 am- 3:00 pm
Mark Dewey Research Center
James Miller, Archivist
K.C. Clow, Volunteer
mdrc@sheffieldhistory.org
413-229-3682
Office Hours
Monday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Friday 1:30pm-4:00pm
or by appointment
Sheffield Historical Society
P.O. Box 747
159-161 Main St.
Sheffield, MA 01257
Visit us at Facebook