Old Sturbridge Village

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

How did New England families spend their evenings before the intrusion of texting, telephones, TVs and computers? Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during Old Sturbridge Village’s “Evening of Illumination.”  Guided by lantern light around the Village Common, guests visit select homes and shops to see how early New Englanders spent their evenings in the days before electricity. Visitors…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Visitors will be treated to a guided story experience where the residents of 19th-century New England prepare for a winter celebration – a Grand Ball, filled with “Winter Warmth and Cheer!” Each trade shop, house, meetinghouse, and tavern on the Village Common will be brought to life by costumed interpreters as they talk about how 19th-century folks would have prepared for such a grand event. A Sampling of What You'll See: Making candles for the family in the Small House…

Greet the Village's new spring lambs, meet Laura Ingalls Wilder, play farm games, visit our two new pigs, and learn about life on an early 19th-century farm! The Village is open EVERY DAY during April School Vacation Week! Old Sturbridge Village invites young and old to celebrate spring with the arrival of baby animals and the preparation of our planting fields. Meet the Village’s cuddly, heritage breed newborns up-close and experience first-hand the responsibilities of raising animals on a farm…

Discover how New Englanders reared sheep for their wool in the 1830s at Old Sturbridge Village's annual sheep shearing festival - Wool Days - on Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome our spring lambs and see the adult sheep get their annual "haircut." There will also be guest alpacas to visit and sheep herding demonstrations. Throughout the weekend, farmers perform sheep shearing, while experts show off the sheep herding skills of border collies. Costumed historians will demonstrate the entire wool textile process, from…

Redcoats & Rebels, returns to Old Sturbridge Village. Come see hundreds of costumed soldiers and experience a taste of what life (and battle) was like for those who fought to win America's freedoms. See the largest military re-enactment in New England with nearly 1,000 soldiers portraying British, Irish, Spanish, Scottish, French and Colonial troops. The Village is transformed into a military camp from the time of the War for Independence, as it was known in early New England. Come see what it…