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    Family Harvest Festival

    Presented by Historic New England at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm

    September 26, 2009

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    Family Harvest Festival

    See tractors and other farm equipment spanning eighty years. Try corn husking or win a prize at the pie-eating contest. Learn how simple machines help farmers with pumping water, pressing cider, and preparing food. Find your way through a hay bale maze, harvest wild herbs, and see vegetables preserved in the traditional way. Enjoy a wagon ride through the fields, build scarecrows, go on a pumpkin treasure hunt, and make fall crafts. Listen to...

    See tractors and other farm equipment spanning eighty years. Try corn husking or win a prize at the pie-eating contest. Learn how simple machines help farmers with pumping water, pressing cider, and preparing food. Find your way through a hay bale maze, harvest wild herbs, and see vegetables preserved in the traditional way. Enjoy a wagon ride through the fields, build scarecrows, go on a pumpkin treasure hunt, and make fall crafts. Listen to folk music performed by Sweet Loretta's Snake Oil Jug Band or watch a puppet show by Martha Dana. The c. 1690 manor house is open.


    Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm

    5 Little's Lane
    Newbury, MA 01951

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    Admission Info:
    $6 adults, $4 children


    General Day and Time Info:
    11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.


    Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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