Annual Old Home Day on Canterbury Green

This annual event sponsored by the Canterbury Historical Society somehow just keeps getting better every year.

Rain or shine. Mark the date. Bring the kids and dogs; tour the 19th century one-room Green District School lovingly restored by the Canterbury Historical Society; enjoy animals, an all-Canterbury district schools reunion, live music, great food, and children's activities; meet local artisans and farmers; get to know representatives of Canterbury's nonprofit, religious, cultural, and heritage organizations; buy an antique; sample wonderful local products and get acquainted with their producers; chat with historical reenactors; catch up with neighbors and make new friends.

Come hungry! Food will include home-baked goods, hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, sodas, pie and ice cream, candy apples, popcorn, Finnish pulla bread, coffee, local fudge, goat cheese, seasonal produce, and more.

Exhibitors:

• Grant Bombria, broom maker
• Elaine Brooks, artist
• Campion and Holdridge, authentic restorations and post and beam reproduction buildings
• Canterbury Antiques 
• Canterbury Economic Development Commission
• Canterbury Lions, offering candy apples and popcorn
• Canterbury VFW
• Canterbury Volunteer Fire Dept., celebrating 60 years in 2009
• David Costanzo, artist
• Crafty Rabbit [Ric Nadeau], hand-operated skillsaw crafts
• James Easton, woodcarver
• Farmer Dan, vintage farm implements
• Finnish American Heritage Society, offering pulla (Finnish bread) & coffee
• First Congregational Church, offering pie & ice cream
• Friends of the Canterbury Public Library, book sale
• Friends of the Prudence Crandall Museum
• Gov. Samuel Huntington Trust
• Howard Valley Fudge
• Amy Kemp, alpaca products, spinning
• Bill Kivic, waffle making over open fire
• Alexander Kostuk, traditional blacksmith
• McV Farm, fresh local produce
• Meadow Stone Farm, goat products including lotions, soaps, and cheese
• Judy Moffitt, quilting
• Bob Noiseux, vintage car rides
• Doug O'Connor, Windsor furniture maker
• Alton Orlomoski, antiques display
• Plainfield Historical Society
• Quoketaug Rangers, Early American reenactors
• Steinhagen Pottery, pottery and textile making
• Karen Stevens, outhouse display
• Susan Swift, beekeeper
• Westminster Congregational Church
• Chili Bob Whatley, Early American reenactor; bowed psaltery music
• Claire Williams, basketmaker

Performers and schedule:

• 11:00 AM, Everett St. Louis and Jack Kerouack
• Noon, Brian Sear
• 12:30 PM, World's Smallest Quartet (http://www.wsqband.com/)
• 1:30 PM, Still Pickin'
• 2:30 PM, Bear Minimum (http://www.myspace.com/bearminimum1)

Please note there may be minor variations in musical performance times. If changes are known ahead of time, we will post them here. Check back.

Children's activities throughout the day.

See photos of last year's Old Home Day on this website at http://www.canterburyhistorical.org/gallery.php; select "Old Home Day on the Canterbury Green, September 20, 2008."

Admission is always free. Everyone is cordially invited. 

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But wait, there's more fun to be had in Canterbury this same day!

FREE ADMISSION to the Prudence Crandall Museum all day long!

After a day of taking in the sights & sounds of Old Home Day on the Green, the Canterbury Lions sponsor a supper at the Canterbury Town Hall Municipal Room (One Municipal Drive). Dinner begins at 4:30PM. Adults $12, kids $6. More info: 546-9245.

As if that's not enough, you can bring this lovely day to a close by dancing the evening away at Canterbury's Finnish American Heritage Society Hall, (76 North Canterbury Road), with music by the Central Massachusetts Accordion Club. Dancing lessons are part of the evening, if you need them. The dance begins at 7PM – admission is $5. More info: 564-7432. It's hard to imagine a more traditional or fun way to end the day.