Ice Harvest Festival The Region’s Coolest Tradition Held each year on the first Saturday in February February 4, 2017, 10 am – 4 pm at Hanford Mills Museum, 51 County Hwy 12, East Meredith, NY 13757 (From http://www.hanfordmills.org/) Ice harvests were once an essential part of winter in rural communities. Before there was refrigeration, ice was […]
The Woodsmen’s Festival showcases logging, sawing and woodworking history and celebrates the many ways people use and work with wood. This event features demonstrations of lumberjack skills, woodworking exhibitors, kids’ activities, food and more. Watch the sawdust fly as logs are sawn in the Museum’s sawmill, and see staff use the vintage woodworking machines to turn Mill-sawn lumber into crates and tub covers.
Practice cooking with wood on the Hanford House kitchen’s Royal Bride cookstove in this hands-on workshop. Participants will prepare a variety of chutneys, relishes, and conserves using fall’s bounty and recipes from cookbooks in use in the 1920s, and will go home with jars of comestibles, including potted cheese, to enjoy over the winter.
