Event
Harvest Festival
Saturday, September 28, 2024 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Step back in time to the late 18th century! This free family-friendly outdoor festival features costumed reenactors and hands-on activities. September was the time of year when tenant farmers on the Philipse Manor would harvest their wheat and start to bring it to the Philipse grist mills for assessment and grinding into flour. September was also apple harvest time in the Philipse orchards. Try your hand at grinding grain in a stone mill, grinding up apples for cider in a cider press, and other hands-on activities.Meet military
and civilian reenactors, including General George Washington and his horse
Nelson, members of Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment and the First Rhode Island
Regiment, Westchester Patriot Ann Miller, colonial era craftspeople, and more.
Enjoy live 18th century music from Carla & Keyes and try old-fashioned
country dancing. Visit a traveling exhibit from the Odell House/Rochambeau
Headquarters Museum. Play colonial-era games, try your hand at our
Revolutionary War spy activity, and learn more about the history of Westchester
County before and during the American Revolution.
Registration: Not required
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