| | Historic New England's traveling exhibition Pilgrims, Patriots, & Products: Selling the Colonial Image, is open now at The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum.  Ephemera from Historic New England's collections reveal how advertisers used romanticized images about America's past to sell their products. Pictures of pilgrims and patriots, along with patriotic slogans, appear on product catalogs, trade cards, advertisements, calendars, and posters. Each portrays an idealized interpretation of the Colonial era. The exhibition also includes miniature chairs, careful copies of original full-sized chairs owned by the seventeenth-century pilgrims Governor Carver and Elder Brewster, now in the collection of Plymouth's Pilgrim Hall. Stay tuned for information about a special celebration for Historic New England members. | | April Year of the Kitchen recipe
If toasted coconut, vanilla custard, and orange snow sound good to you, you won't want to miss the April recipe of the month. Find out what Christopher Kimball, publisher and editor of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country, and host of America's Test Kitchen, has "cooked up" for our Year of the Kitchen celebration. | | Continuing a tradition  This autograph quilt, made by students in the Castle Square Tenant's Organization in Boston, and education staff is on display in the Otis House auditorium, where it will be seen by visiting school groups. Modeled on nineteenth-century examples in Historic New England's collection, this quilt was a community project. Each child pieced a block of his own design and signed his block. The quilters were proud to see their work assembled. | Suggest a Book Prize candidate Nominate a candidate for the 2009 Historic New England Book Prize. For fourteen years, the Historic New England Book Prize has been awarded to books that advance the understanding of the architecture, landscape, and material culture of New England and the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Every year the Book Prize Committee, which consists of interested members, trustees, Council members, and staff, reviews between twenty and thirty books and makes a final selection that is celebrated with a program in the fall. Recent winners include Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style; Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England, and Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes. To qualify for this year's prize, the work needs to have been published in 2008. It does not have to be exclusively about New England, but must make a significant contribution to our understanding of New England and its relation to the wider world. Topics may include works in the decorative arts, archaeology, historic preservation, and the history of photography. Send suggestions to Lorna Condon at Historic New England, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114 or at lcondon@historicnewengland.org. | | Learn all about it  Click here to learn about Historic New England's Folk Art Immersion Weekend, an intensive four day program exploring the region's folk art. Join Historic New England staff and other experts for a series of lectures and tours featuring superb collections and top experts. Investigate the origins of folk art and explore paintings, hooked rugs, painted furniture, redware, and the many other objects often referred to as "country arts." | | Year of the Kitchen at the greenhouses Celebrate spring at the Herb Festival at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses on Thursday, April 30, through Sunday, May 3, and again on Saturday, May 9, and Sunday, May 10, from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.  The Herb Festival features more than one hundred varieties of naturally grown culinary, medicinal, and ornamental herbs. There will be herbal products such as soaps, dips and vinegars, sachets, and other local products. The horticultural staff is on hand to offer expert advice. Items for sale include the Herb FARMacy's organic rubs, salves, and rare plants; sugar-free preserves and relishes from Deborah's Kitchen; Deb Jackson's homemade lavender products; and Urban Kitchen's herbal soaps, soy candles, and natural room sprays. Scented geraniums, herbal topiaries, pottery, strawberry jars, and garden gifts are also available | | Program highlights Easter Egg HuntSaturday, April 11, 10:30 a.m.; Casey Farm, Saunderstown, R.I.; 401-295-1030. Free to Historic New England members, $4 nonmembers. Registration required.
Bring the family to Casey Farm for an egg hunt that uses Casey Farm fresh eggs. Explore the farm, and visit the chickens, chicks, and piglets. Refreshments available. This event is rain or shine.
Meet the Author-Book SigningSaturday, April 18, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.; Phillips House, Salem, Mass. 978-744-0440. Free.
Celebrate America's Kitchens, Historic New England's newest publication, with co-author and Museum Historian Jennifer Pustz. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and colorful ephemera from Historic New England's collections, America's Kitchens features New England kitchens, detached kitchens on southern plantations, Spanish Colonial kitchens of the Southwest, elaborate nineteenth-century kitchens in the Midwest, and middle-class open-plan homes of 1950s suburbia.
A Century of Tea: History and Tea Tasting Wednesday, April 22, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.; Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth, N.H.; 603-436-3205. $20 Historic New England members, $30 nonmembers. Registration recommended.
Tea, a luxury good imported from Asia, played a pivotal role in American history. Join historians Sandra Rux and Louise Richardson to learn about the customs surrounding tea consumption in Portsmouth from the Federal era through the Colonial Revival. Sample historic teas as well as more recent blends and tea cakes made from favorite Portsmouth recipes. | | | | | | | Join today to receive Historic New England magazine  Or call 617-227-3956. | Become a fan of Historic New England | |
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