(Harvard, Mass.) The Craft Festival at Fruitlands will be back for its 6th anniversary on September 24th and 25th, featuring artisans selling jewelry, ceramics, glassware, wood items, fiber arts and more. Set on the picturesque grounds of Fruitlands Museum, the juried show’s quality of craft has made the Festival a popular September destination. The Harvard Lions Club will supply grilled goodies and The Summertime Trio will keep everyone tapping their toes with live music all weekend.

With stunning views of the Nashua River Valley’s glorious foliage­–and four buildings of New England history, Native culture & American art–fall is the perfect time for travelers and local residents to plan a trip to visit Fruitlands Museum.

Craft Festival at Fruitlands Hours are Saturday, September 24, 10am – 4pm and Sunday, September 25, 11am – 4pm

Admission, which includes entry to the museum buildings is $5/member, $10/nonmember (children under 12 are free).

UPCOMING EVENTS AT FRUITLANDS

Harvest Festival

Saturday, October 8, 10am – 4pm

Free with museum admission 

Enjoy the abundance of the New England landscape in this celebration of the autumn harvest! Learn about Native American gardening and how local Native peoples prepared for the winter long ago. See examples of livestock raised in local farms and find fresh food sources near you. Make seasonal crafts for your hearth or front door. Taste local fruits and vegetables and quench your thirst with switchel - a refreshing tonic used by farmers of old!

Fruitlands Halloween Treats

Saturday October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 10am-5pm

Free with admission

Calling all ghouls and goblins! Join us in the Family Learning Center where you can decorate a spooky mask. Don't forget your goodie bag - we're giving out treats at the museum buildings! Children who visit the museum in costume receive free admission this Halloween weekend!

Haunted Hillside

Sunday, October 30, 6-9pm

Members$10/adult $3/child, Nonmembers: $15/adult, $5/child

Follow the candle-lit paths across the Fruitlands hillside and listen to tales of ghosts, spirits, and a foolish medical student from Harvard during this spooky storytelling event. Set amid Fruitlands historic hovels and over-grown thickets, this evening of eerie stories is sure to get everyone in the Halloween spirit. Hot cider, popcorn, and goosebumps await!

Annual Bonfire

Saturday, November 5

Annual Bonfire: 5-7pm | Free

Meet us near the old elm tree at sunset when we close the 2016 season with a bonfire and roasted marshmallows. Arrive early to weave a special message of goodwill into the bonfire sculpture then watch as the wind carries our wishes to the stars. S'mores kits will be available for snacking, too!

Fruitlands Museum is open Monday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. — 4 p.m., weekends and holidays 10AM — 5PM, April 15 – November 6, 2016. Admission is $14 adults, $12 seniors and students, $6 for children 5 – 13, and free for members and children under 5. Fruitlands Museum is located at 102 Prospect Hill Road in Harvard, Mass. For more information please visit www.fruitlands.org or call 978-456-3924 ext. 292.

About Fruitlands Museum & The Trustees

Fruitlands Museum, a 210-acre historic, natural, and cultural destination based in Harvard, MA, recently became a property of The Trustees of Reservations. Founded in 1914 by author and preservationist Clara Endicott Sears, the Museum takes its name from an experimental utopian community led by Transcendentalists Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane that existed on this site in 1843. Fruitlands is dedicated to New England history & art, and its properties include: The Fruitlands Farmhouse, once home to the family of Louisa May Alcott and a National Historic landmark; The Shaker Museum, home to the largest archive of Harvard Shaker documents in the world; The Native American Museum, which houses a significant collection of artifacts that honor the spiritual presence and cultural history of the first Americans; The Art Museum, featuring a renowned collection of Hudson River School landscape paintings and 19th century vernacular portraits, along with rotating special exhibitions; and The Land, which features panoramic views of the Nashua River Valley, including 2.5 miles of meadows and woodland recreational trails. The Fruitlands Museum Store sells fine crafts by local artists, including pottery, glass, jewelry, clothing and home furnishings. The Museum Café, open during the main season focuses on locally-sourced, sustainable cuisine reflective of the heritage of New England. www.fruitlands.org.

The Trustees preserves and cares for some of the best of Massachusetts’ natural, scenic, and cultural sites for the public to use and enjoy. The organization’s passion is to engage more people in culture, agriculture, nature, and healthy, active lifestyles, using its properties, its community spaces, and it’s many programs as a powerful and compelling platform to connect people to places and each other in our increasingly digitized world.  As the Commonwealth’s largest conservation and preservation organization and the nation’s first land trust founded in 1891, The Trustees celebrates its 125th Anniversary this year and continues its work in protecting the irreplaceable for everyone, forever.  Today, The Trustees cares for 116 spectacular and diverse reservations spanning more than 26,000 acres— from working farms, landscaped and urban gardens, and community parks, to barrier beaches, forests, campgrounds, inns and historic sites, many of which are National Historic Landmarks — located within minutes of every resident. Funded by more than 125,000 members and supporters and 1.6 million visitors in 2015, The Trustees invites you to get out, get inspired, and find magic in the moment at a Trustees property near you: www.thetrustees.org.

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