Page Farm and Home Museum Offers ‘History Fun Day’ April 19
Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — Learning about history can be fun and also long-lasting, particularly if the process is an immersive, hands-on experience. That’s exactly what the Page Farm and Home Museum hopes its annual “History Fun Day” will be on April 19, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The annual public event is geared for children, from kindergarten through grade 5, and is timed over April vacation to provide some educational activities of a different nature in a venue that replicates the environment of the period preserved through the university’s farm and home museum’s exhibits and educational programs.
Children can roll up their sleeves and participate in some of the historically significant activities in vogue from 1865 through 1940, the time period kept alive throughout the year by museum Director Patricia Henner, her staff and volunteers.
‘History Fun Day” activities include food preservation, ice cream making, fiber arts and weaving, paper making, maple sugaring and raising poultry. Other activities offered through the museum’s various programs have included stenciling, making clothes pin dolls, spinning and weaving, seed-starting in a terrarium, butter-making and holiday wreath construction.
A $4 per-child fee covers the cost of History Fun Day materials.
The non-profit Page Farm and Home Museum is located in the last original agricultural building on the University of Maine campus. The museum houses a large collection of farm implements and household items from the period 1865 to 1940. Some of the many exhibits include ice harvesting, a blacksmith shop, a Victorian parlor, a one-room schoolhouse and a haying exhibit, complete with a hayrick and restored John Deere tractor.
Advance registration is requested and can be done by calling the Page Farm and Home Museum at 581-4100. The museum is accessible to people with disabilities.