812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7, 1992
WESTMINSTER, Md. The
Christmas Theme Tour at the Car
roll County Farm Museum begins
November 28 and runs through
December 6 from 10 a.m. until 4
p.m. daily; Wednesday and Satur
days, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Special
Christmas admission prices:
adults over 18, $1.50; 6 to 18,
$.75; group of 20 or more (reser
vation required), $l.OO per person;
Season pass is honored.
"Christmas Memories” arc
recalled and captured m the 1800 s
Farmhouse at the Carroll County
Farm Museum during the Christ
mas theme tour as Festive decora
tions throughout the Farmhouse
will encourage visitors to Remem
ber When .. The celebration of
Christmas is a tradition handed
from generation to generation.
While viewing the Farmhouse as
it is bedecked in holiday fashion
poignant memories of Christ
mases past emerge. Period dressed
guides are on hand to point, out
significant details of each room on
display.
The walking tour of the
Museum grounds is “highly sea
soned” with the sights, smells, and
sounds of Christmas. Freshly cut
Christmas Memories At Carroll Farm Museum
pine swags adorned with ribbons
hang from the doorways of the
shops where Museum artisans
demonstrate their skills of the late
1800 s. The aroma of fresh baked
goodies will lure you to the Bake
Oven room where sweet treats,
sandwiches, and hot and cold
drinks will be sold. The Bell Rin
gers of St. Mary’s United Church
of Christ will ring in the 1992
Christmas Memories Tour on the
evening of November 28, from 6
to 8 p.m. Led by Ms. Valerie
Brown, the 13-mcmber group will
delight visitors with sounds of die
season. Santa Claus will pay a dai
ly visit to the Museum, handing
out candy canes to those boys and
girls having a wish list, from 11
a.m. until 1 p.m. Potted poinsettias
m various sizes and colors will be
on sale m the Museum lobby. In
the Genral Store arc handcrafted
items for sale that may solve the
“what to get” for that “hard to buy
for” person. The wagon master
will be on hand each weekend
with his team of mules for those
who wish a Christmas Memory
riding tour of the Museum
grounds: join in singing Christmas
Carols along the way.
Preparation for
planting small
grains should
include applying
proper soil pH.
Soil tests
cam help you
If you have a special Christmas
memory or tradition you wish to
share, send it in letter form to:
Attention Christmas Memories,
Carroll County Farm Museum,
500 South Center Street, West
minster, MD 21157. These letters
will be posted around the grounds
so everyone who visits may share
a Christmas Memory.
The Curatorial Department of
the Farm Museum is sponsoring a
Christmas and Holiday Season
Quilt Square contest, “Holiday
Building Blocks.” This contest
and exhibit of holiday and Christ
mas motif quilling squares will be
on display in the Farmhouse
showcase. Unfinished squares or
finished squares arc to be no larger
than 16 inches x 16 inches in size.
Contest categories include patch
work, applique, embroidered,
mixed media, religious, most crea
tive, most intricate, and best quilt
ing square designed by children
under 16 years of age. The dead
line for all entries will be Novem
ber 23, 1992 (12 Noon). Sharing
the space in the Farmhouse show
case will be an exhibit of Christ
mas Teddy Bears.
On exhibit in the'Bowfront Chi-
Museum Wants Crafts
Pennsylvania crafts the museum is
seeking Pennsylvania crafts for
exhibition and sale this fall and
winter. Information, photographs
and samples should be sent to the
Museum Shop, P.O. Box 1026,
Third & North Streets, Harrisburg,
In recognition of the vitality of PA 17108-1026.
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The State Museum of Pennsyl
vania, managed by the Friends of
The State Museum, will begin a
salute to “The Year of American
Craft 1993” by featuring the work
of Pennsylvania craftpersons this
Christmas.
na Closet are “Playthings Past,”
collection of friction tin toys own
ed by Beau and Loni Cassidy of
Adelphia, Md. This exhibit will
feature post World War II clock
work, battery operated toys and
vehicles.