The Curran Homestead Village at Fields Pond, 372 Fields Pond Rd. , will host a number of events during Old Home Week from July 14 –July 23.

 

Appointments are now being taken for 10-minute sittings on July 14, 15, & 16 for old fashioned Silhouette Portraits at the Curran farmhouse. On-the-spot framing of your portrait is available. See more details at: curranhomestead.org/silhouetteportraits. To make your appointment, call: (207) 205-4849, or 745-4426.

Also on July 14, 12 noon – 3 p.m., and July 14, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, there will be a metal casting class in progress at the Village. A group of high school students, from Bangor’s Carleton Project, an alternative, experiential high school directed by Christopher Betts, will be participating in the class but the public is welcome to watch at a distance the class taught by Orrington resident Peter Grant. On Tuesday, July 18, these teenagers will make pickles and do some baking and cooking on a wood stove in the Curran farmhouse kitchen with Carol Dandura of Addison.  On Friday, July 21, they will learn letterpress printing in a workshop led by Mark Matteau, owner of the Dunstan Press in Scarborough.  Students will be making electronic telegraph sounders for sending Morse code. A day will be spent learning some of the basics of blacksmithing.

The Giant Yard Sale on July 21-23, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., will include just about everything , including a kitchen sink, plus books, furniture, tools, restoration projects, sleighs, household items, children’s items, and more!

On Saturday, July 15 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. and Sunday, July 16 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. . Curran Homestead Village hosts its first Silent Movie Festival. This will include features and shorts shown in either the Curran barn or on the back lawn. These include on Saturday The Haunted Castle (1896), Frankenstein (1910), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1912), Charlie Chaplin’s One AM  (REEL film), Buster Keaton’s The General and The Paleface, Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Baghdad, The Enchanted Drawing (1900), Little Nemo (1911), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), A Boy and His Elephant (1913), and Nosferatu. On Sunday, there will be Stan Laurel in West of Hot Dog (1924), Dr. Pykle and Mr. Pride, Mud and Sand (1922), Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera (1925). Buster Keaton in The Blacksmith, The Boat (1921), Love Nest, The Balloonatic. Also, Douglas Fairbanks in The Prisoner of Zenda.   Recorded music will accompany the showings. Popcorn and candy will be available.  $5 Admission.   

On Saturday, July 22, from 3-7 p.m. visitors can enjoy Bluegrass Music with a variety of local musicians including our own banjo picking board member Jim, Leighton. Enjoy our Bean supper also on the July 22^nd  from 4:30-6:30 p.m. $10 Adults, $9 Seniors, $8 for children under 12, and under 6 is free. All proceeds to benefit Curran Homestead Village.

Curran Homestead Village participates in Open Farm Day on Sunday, July 23, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.  The public is invited to come and see our new developments, including a new timber frame workshop and major renovation to early Orrington resident Peter Field’s house that was recently lifted and placed on a new foundation; it will house restrooms and serve as a visitor’s center for the developing museum village. There will be hands-on activities, farm animals to see, and an old fashioned barbeque. The Old Home Week Citizen of the Year will be announced at 12 noon. Come and enjoy a week at the farm.