2008 Pennsbury Manor Calendar
 

Date & Time

Event & Comments

Date & Time

Event & Comments

1:30 - 3:30 PM

Sunday 4/6

1:00 – 4:00 PM

Historic Trades

Hear the clang of the hammer and the sound of wood being cut as our joyner and blacksmith demonstrate their skills. 

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Frozen rivers, hurricanes, excessive heat. Learn how weather affected the 17th-Century community.

Sunday 4/20

1:00-4:00 PM

Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration:  Spring in the 17th Century

After a winter of preserved foods, the first greens of the year, spring eggs, and fish from the Delaware are welcomed foods. Watch the Pennsbury cooks use these foods to prepare dishes for the Penn family.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Through hands-on activities visitors can explore daily life. Tour the Manor House and try your hand at preparing garden beds with colonial tools..

Sunday 4/27

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Garden Highlights

Try your hand at preparing garden beds with colonial tools, or just watch and listen as the gardeners tend the spring crops.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

Sunday 5/4

1:00 – 4:00 PM

Sheepshearing & Historic Trades

Watch as our sheep are sheared with hand shears, then help wash, card and spin the wool.  Our colonial craftsmen will also be demonstrating their skills.

Sunday 5/11

1:00 – 4:00 PM

Living History Theater:  Women Preachers - A visit from Mary Rogers and Elizabeth Webb

Listen to two traveling Quaker ministers preach and speak of their travels in the colonies on Truth's account.

Sunday 5/18

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration - The 17th Century Pudding

Watch as the Pennsbury Manor cooks make pudding.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Penn Pals

Through hands-on activities visitors can explore daily life. Tour the Manor House and watch the cooks prepare pudding.

Sunday 5/25

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Garden Highlights

Spend some peaceful time in Penn’s kitchen garden as you learn about his gardeners and their work.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

Sunday 6/1

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Historic Trades

Hear the clang of the hammer and the sound of wood being cut as our joyner and blacksmith demonstrate their skills.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Sunday 6/8

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Living History Theater: 
Shopping in the Seventeenth Century

How did you go shopping? What did women buy? What did men buy? Talk to the Penn family as they discuss what needs to be purchased so that they have all of the necessities for their summer stay at Pennsbury.

Sunday 6/15

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration: The Table of William Penn

A full course meal will be displayed as receipts are prepared as if servants were to serve William Penn and his many guests for dinner.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Date & Time

Event & Comments

Sunday 7/6

1:00 – 4:00 PM

Historic Trades

Hear the clang of the hammer and the sound of wood being cut as our joyner and blacksmith demonstrate their skills. (Interpreters will be located throughout the site to allow visitors to tour at their own pace).

Monday 7/7

10:00 AM – 3 PM

Colonial Camp

Come enjoy old fashion camp fun including hands-on history, arts and crafts, and games. Highlights include the worker’s cottage program, writing with a quill pen, meeting Pennsbury Manor’s animals, candle making, and much more. At the end of the week, campers give a tour to their parents. For children who have completed first through sixth grades. Reservations are required and space is limited.

Sunday 7/13

1:00-4:00 PM

Living History Theater: Crime in Early Pennsylvania -
The Trial of Judith Roe

In 1688, Judith Roe was accused of murder. Listen to the testimony and decide whether she is guilty or innocent.

Sunday 7/20

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration: The 17th Century Dairy

Watch the 17^th century preparation of soft and hard cheeses and the use of seasonal milk in various receipts. (Interpreters will be located throughout the site to allow visitors to tour at their own pace).

Monday 7/21

10:00-3:00 PM      

Colonial Camp

Come enjoy old fashion camp fun including hands-on history, arts and crafts, and games. Highlights include the worker’s cottage program, writing with a quill pen, meeting Pennsbury Manor’s animals, candle making, and much more. At the end of the week, campers give a tour to their parents. For children who have completed first through sixth grades. Reservations are required and space is limited.

Sunday 7/27

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Garden Highlights

Explore the seasonal highlights of Pennsbury’s historic gardens with their gardeners.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Hear the clang of the hammer and the sound of wood being cut as our joyner and blacksmith demonstrate their skills. (Interpreters will be located throughout the site to allow visitors to tour at their own pace).

1:00 - 4:00 PM

John Smith, a blacksmith at Pennsbury, ran away in 1686. Why? Talk to the blacksmith, Pennsbury's steward, and Penn's neighbors to find out.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

The cooks will be processing the bountiful harvest of the late summer garden to prepare the manor for the long winter. (Interpreters will be located throughout the site to allow visitors to tour at their own pace.)

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Meet the horse, oxen, and sheep at Penn's plantation, and learn about the lives and contributions of their 17th-century predecessors.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

1:00 - 4:00 PM

What concerns did late seventeenth century parents have in regard to their older children? Discuss the issue of raising young adults with the Penns and Pembertons.

Sunday 9/21
2:00 PM

Here is a unique way to experience Pennsbury Manor the way people 300 years ago saw it! After background information and activities on Saturday night, participants will literally wake up in the 17th century. Families will be dressed in period clothing as they perform the routine work of the estate. Not recommended for children under 6 years of age. Call for cost. Reservations are required.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

The cooks will be firing the bake oven and baking manchets, cheate bread, and various other 17th century receipts.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Take a walk over, view the fall garden, and listen as the gardeners describe their work.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Hear the clang of the hammer and the sound of wood being cut as our joyner and blacksmith demonstrate their skills.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Your presence is requested at the marriage of John Sotcher, the steward at Pennsbury Manor, to the Penn's head housekeeper, Mary Lofty. Observe late 17th-century Quaker wedding customs, sign the marriage certificate, and chat with William and Hannah Penn and the other wedding guests.

1:00 - 4:00 PM

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Visit Penn's Brew House and see how beer and ale were made in early Pennsylvania. Here you can savor the pungent scent of malted barley and hops while the brewers discuss their art. On crisp fall days, colonial households would put up apple cider to ferment. See how Penn's servants pressed cider and sample the unfermented product.

Date & Time

Event & Comments

1:00 - 4:00 PM

Date & Time

Event & Comments

Saturday 12/6

10:00 – 12:00 PM
and
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Wreaths & Greens Workshop

Spend the morning making a fragrant evergreen wreath to take home.  Our horticulturist will also share tips about how to prune and care for a variety of evergreen trees and shrubs in the home landscape.  Bring Clippers. Pre-registration required.

Thursday 12/11 & Friday 12/12

5:30 – 9:00 PM

Holly Nights

Experience the enchantment of Pennsbury by candlelight!  A community tradition for over 25 years, this joyous feast for the senses offers crackling fires, hot-mulled cider, dancing shadows, and the merry sounds of carolers strolling the grounds.  So gather friends and family.  Come toss a green sprig on our Yule log bonfire, make your wish for the coming new year.  Step back into the glow of torches, candles, and luminaries…the bustle of colonial craftspeople (always happy to chat, mind you!)…the good cheer of noels and wassailing songs … and – if Old Man Winter wills it – the crunch of frosty pathways underfoot.