Harvest at the Homestead

Fall harvesting marks the beginning of the big push to get ready for winter here in Maine and the Camden-Rockport Historical Society invites you to celebrate the season with us on Saturday, October 7 from 10-4.

Multiple historical harvest activities, demonstrations and treats will take place alongside the demonstrations. The historical interpreters of Early Camden Living History : Maine Historical Interpreters 1770-1790 will be here at the homestead in period clothing, discussing and demonstrating various 18th-century skills such as medicine, candle dipping, apple drying, shingle making and fire starting with flint and steel.
In addition, members of the “militia” will have talks on Penobscot Bay during the American Revolution, including displays of the arms and equipment a local soldier was expected to carry. Periodically, there may be some military drumming.

Children’s activities including face painting will occur alongside demonstrations of early crafts such as rug hooking, spinning and weaving, quilting and blacksmithing and making bait bags. The current Textile Exhibit in the museum will be open as will the Homestead.
Vendors exhibiting and selling historical and harvest-relevant crafts, and a sale of apple and pumpkin baked goods will top off the day.

The Camden Rockport Historical Society’s Museum and Homestead campus is located on Rt 1 near the Camden-Rockport line, just behind Hannaford supermarket.