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Past Events

Sun., Jan. 17, 2 pm History of Field's Corner

  

Jeffrey Gonyeau of Historic Boston Incorporated,who is a Director of the Dorchester Historical

Society, presented a slide program on the historyof Fields Corner featuring new material

discovered, through its Historic Neighborhood Centers program, a collaborative project of Historic Boston, Field'sCorner Main Street, and Viet-AID.Together thesegroups are constructing a vision for the futureofFields Corner,concentrating on the rehabilitationand re-use of historic buildings and the preservationof the district's unique architectural character.

 

 

 

 

2009 November 15--TheSociety opened its barn for the first ever public viewing.

 

 

The New England Barn and Its Restoration.

 

Rick Detwiller, architect and President of the Georgetown Historical Society,presented

an  illustrated lecture on New England barns and how the Clapp Family barn fits into the tradition of barn-building beginning at 2 pm.The Clapp family is famous for hybridizing many varieties of pears including the Clap's Favorite, but the family farm has much more to offer as a full working farm from over one hundred years ago.

 

 

 

 

Following the lecture, EarthWorksdemonstrated apple pressing for the making of cider, and the

buildings were open for exploration. The early nineteenth-century basement kitchen of the William Clapp House is filled with objects relating to cooking and laundry. The Lemuel Clap House has artifacts used in the linen-making process and examples of needlework from the first half of the nineteenth century. Along with its animal stalls, the barn is filled with agricultural tools, carpenter's tools and more including plows, buggy, sleigh, enormous sled, harrows, clamps, hay forks, iron and wooden shovels to point out just a few.

 

 

 

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