Sheep to Shawl Festival
Join us as we kick off the 50th Anniversary Celebrations for the Miller-Cory House Museum with our Sheep to Shawl Festival. Held on our historic grounds, the festival includes sheep shearing demonstrated by a master shearer using hand shears as was done in early America. Museum docents in period costume will also be demonstrating wool-related period crafts including spinning, weaving, and knitting. 18th century farm tasks such as wash day and soap making will also be demonstrated and our cooks will showcase eighteenth-century colonial cuisine with authentic colonial-era open hearth cooking using period recipes and techniques. There will be a children’s craft and story time with local author Laura Sassi who will be reading her sheep-themed picture book Little Ewe.
Admission is $5 ages 13 and older; $4 ages 3-12 and free age 2 and younger. No reservations are necessary. The event is rain or shine and runs from 1to 4 p.m.
The Miller Cory House Museum is located at 614 Mountain Avenue in Westfield, NJ. Call the museum at 908-232-1776 or email millercorymuseum@gmail.com for more information.
Since 1968, the 501(c)(3) non-profit Miller CoryHouse Museum/Westfield Historical Society has worked to preserve, interpret and encourage interest in history, Westfield, and its residents through educational efforts and community outreach programs. For more information on the Miller Cory House Museum/Westfield Historical Society and their events, millercoryhouse.com orwestfieldhistoricalsociety.org and , like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram.
