Everyone has a history worth recording. Family Ties provides students with the tools to tell their stories. During the program, students learn how Jacob and Dorothy Stekionis emigrated from Lithuania just after WWI and lived in the tenant farmhouse at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, working the land, raising a family, and adapting to a new life here […]
Could you speak out against the practice of enslavement if it meant risking your livelihood, your position in the community, or even your life? In 1850, pressured to support the Fugitive Slave Law or lose customers, Woodstock native and Roseland Cottage owner Henry C. Bowen, a wealthy merchant, newspaper publisher, and abolitionist, faced this challenge. […]
Using the wool from the flock of sheep at Historic New England’s Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, students learn each step in the process of creating cloth. While they pick, clean, card, and spin wool by hand, they learn how technology provides improved tools to make each step faster and more efficient. They then try their hand at […]
Although Historic New England doesn’t currently offer formal education programs in New Hampshire, we would be happy to provide a customized visit for your class to any of our properties. Follow the links below to contact the site you are interested in visiting.
What did people experience during Civil War? If you were a soldier, how did you spend your day? How did troops communicate? How did the war affect African Americans? Soldier’s families? Students use their inquisitiveness and historical thinking skills to explore the past and gain a deeper understanding of the Civil War and its impact. […]
Students learn about bird life cycles while helping to preserve the endangered Dominique chicken breed, which is raised at Casey Farm. A farm educator visits the classroom with everything needed to incubate a clutch of eggs, sets up the equipment, and engages students in a hands-on presentation about Dominique chickens and eggs. Twenty-one days later, […]
Why did colonists choose to be Loyalist, Patriot, or uncommitted? How did life change for the colonists before and during the Revolutionary War? What was the influence of propaganda? This hands-on program brings American Revolutionary War history to life at the museum or at your school.
Take your students on a trip back to the year 1800. This short program is designed to fit into a daylong class trip to Boston. Museum educators lead students on a dynamic, interactive tour of Otis House, the home of Harrison Gray Otis, Sally Foster Otis, and their young family living in Boston after the […]
What is a farm and what happens there? To find out about life on Casey Farm, students meet farm animals, explore fields and farm buildings, get to act like a draft horse, and learn what it’s like to milk a cow. Through these experiences, they see how every animal contributes to the success of the […]
Students will learn how wool is turned into yarn, try their hand at carding and spinning wool before weaving on a loom to make a bracelet or bookmark to take home.
Students explore primary source documents, diaries, and maps. They learn about artifacts recovered through archaeology here at the property, and hear stories based on these historical references. Students explore the life of Offin Boardman, a wealthy Newburyport merchant and Revolutionary war privateer, as well as his family and others including servants, sailors, farm hands and […]
Explore the pastimes of children from the Pilgrim era to the first years of the New Republic. Students make a toy, play games, solve riddles, and find out how changing attitudes towards childhood affected children’s toys and pastimes.
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