ADVISORY/Searsmont Maine Honors Its Hardworking Rural Past in Renovated Historic Clark Barn.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Saturday (July 27)
What: Heritage Day Celebration
Who: Searsmont Historical Society and Community
Where: Martin Farmstead, Diamond St. and Moody Mountain Rd.,
Searsmont, ME
When: July 27, 2002 (noon - midnight)
There will be a significant historical event in Searsmont, Maine Searsmont is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,174 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 101.5 km² (39.2 mi²). 97.9 km² (37.8 mi²) of it is land and 3.7 km² (1. , on Saturday, July 27, 2002. The Searsmont Heritage Day is dedicated to the celebration of Searsmont's historic past with daytime activities focusing on historical games, crafts, and demonstrations of old time skills. A potluck supper will culminate with barn dances, featuring contra/square dancing followed by the Frye Mountain Band, in the dramatic 1830's post and beam Clark Barn, which has been moved and re-erected. Heritage Day begins at 12 noon with demonstrations of hand hewing Hewing is a method of cutting wood. One can hew wood by standing a log across two other smaller logs, and stabilizing it somehow, by notching the support logs, or using a 'dog' (a long bar of iron with a hook tooth on either end that jams into the logs and prevents movement). , shingle-making, mortise & tenon joinery joinery, craft of assembling exposed woodwork in the interiors of buildings. Where carpentry refers to the rougher, simpler, and primarily structural elements of wood assembling, joinery has to do with difficult surfaces and curvatures, such as those of spiral , spinning, and needlework needlework, work done with a needle, either plain sewing, mending, or ornamental work such as embroidery, quilting, smocking, hemstitching, fagoting, some kinds of lace making (see lace), patchwork, and appliqué. . Games will range from cow-pie bingo and horseshoes to sack races to jump rope jump rope or skip rope Children's game in which players hold a rope (jump rope) at each end and twirl it in a circle, while one or more players jump over it each time it reaches its lowest point. and bobbing for apples. Other activities planned are square dancing, horse-drawn wagon rides, and an old-fashioned recipe and pie contest. Attendees can also try their hand at auger use and working with a hand-hewn timber, artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , beadwork beadwork Ornamental work in beads. In the Middle Ages beads were used to embellish embroidery work. In Renaissance and Elizabethan England, clothing, purses, fancy boxes, and small pictures were adorned with beads. and farm implements will be on display. An electronic presentation of local photographs from Searsmont Historical Society's archives, as well as a program on Searsmont's historic barns will be shown continuously. Central to Searsmont's Heritage Day Celebration will be the Clark Barn, now located at the Martin family farmstead. The barn came from the adjacent working rural Maine farmstead built in the early 1800's by Jotham Clark, Howard Clark's great-grandfather. This beautiful barn is a classic 40 by 65 foot, 5-bay, rural Maine dairy-barn built in post and beam construction. Two years ago, the Martins tackled its preservation and restoration. The timber-frame barn was well documented, carefully dismantled, and rebuilt on the Martin farmstead 3/4 of a mile from its original location. On July 27th, this monumental project will be celebrated by the entire community. Guests should bring a potluck dish, entries for the pie and old recipe contest, chairs and drinks. |
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