Celebrate a 19th Century Thanksgiving at Billings Farm & Museum
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT... The Billings Farm & Museum, gateway to Vermont's rural heritage, will open for Thanksgiving Weekend on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 25 - 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m, featuring traditional cooking demonstrations in the farmhouse, horse-drawn wagon rides, farm tours, and hands-on harvest and food preservation activities and programs for every age. It's also the final weekend to visit the farm life exhibits this season.
You'll be welcomed to Frederick Billings's farmhouse, where farm manager George Aitken and his wife and four daughters lived and worked in 1890. Visit with costumed interpreters as they demonstrate cooking traditional Thanksgiving fare in the farmhouse kitchen. Relax in the Victorian parlor and learn how our American Thanksgiving tradition evolved. Enjoy a freshly baked treat before touring the farm and boarding the wagon pulled by the Percheron team for a ride around the farm.
The operating dairy farm and the restored and furnished farmhouse plus programs and activities are included in the entrance fee. For more information: 802-457-2355.
Admission: adults: $12.00; 62 & over: $11.00; children 5-15: $6.00; 3-4: $3.00; under 3: free.
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