DISCOVER THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING RECIPES AND TRADITIONS
Saturday, nov. 20 & Sunday nov. 21 | 12pm-5pm | $10
Proof of vaccination is required for visitors age 12 and up.
Harvest celebrations have been a part a part of Native culture for thousands of years. After a long growing season, crops would be gathered in abundance, and shared with family and the wider community, signaling the beginning of winter. Native peoples shared food, land, and knowledge with English settlers which informed their agricultural practice. The ‘First Thanksgiving’ was celebrated in 1621, and today, Thanksgiving meals are a blend of Native American and European ingredients and traditions.
WHAT’S IN STORE:
Watch as costumed interpreters prepare dishes using 18th & 19th century recipes, tools and techniques in historic kitchens throughout the village.
Patrick Little Wolf Brooks, of the Tuscarora tribe, will present Northern Traditional Dance.
John Scott-Richardson, member of the Haliwa-Saponi Nation, will present demonstrations of indigenous culture, including dance, storytelling, and crafts.
Museum: Participate in a self-guided Museum scavenger hunt themed for the harvest season! Take a historic recipe home with you. Share your harvest festival stories, practices and menus with us!
Special presentation of indigenous cultural dance, education, storytelling and crafts by John Scott-Richardson and Patrick Little Wolf Brooks.
Stephens House: Tour a Victorian-era kitchen and learn about the 19th-century roots of the Thanksgiving holiday we celebrate today.
Christopher House: Discover foods native to the Americas. Sample cornbread with apple butter.
Basketmakers House: Taste sweet potato and apple pies baked in a Dutch oven.
Kruser-Finley House: Meet the broom-maker and learn about how this essential kitchen tool was made in the early American republic.
Guyon-Lake Tysen House: Watch a reflector oven cook meat by an open hearth fire.
Admission:
Tickets are $10, and may be purchased online in advance or at the 3rd County Courthouse visitor center.
Tickets for this program include admission to the following regularly scheduled daily offerings: The Historical Museum.