Fashioning the Body: Dress in New England 1600-1900
September 12 - 13 in Deerfield, MA
Fashion has garnered great interest in recent decades and research into the history of clothing has yielded new insights into culturally embedded ideas around self-styling and the body. Yet, few studies have explored New England’s relationship with styling the body and fashionable dress. Organized in conjunction with the current exhibition, Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real on view in the Flynt Center, Historic Deerfield’s 2025 Fall Forum Fashioning the Body: Dress in New England 1600-1900 will convene a group of experts in the field to explore the rich history of dressing the body and self-presentation in this region.
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Let’s Bake! November is a great time to learn some new recipes for the winter baking season! Come to this workshop to learn how to use a bake kettle and the beehive oven. These workshops will focus on pies and cakes. Workshop Size: 8 participants. Recommended for ages 16 and up.
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October 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 at 7 p.m.
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Meet at the Visitor Center at Hall Tavern and join us for a spooky walk through the village to hear ghost stories from Deerfield. Your evening will start with a few eerie tales inside our old tavern and then you will head out with a ghostly guide who will take you to reportedly haunted locations in the village and tell you their spooky histories.
Recommended for ages 12 and up.