2013 – 2014 O L D S T U R B R I D G E Winter VILLAGE Edition Visitor

Bringing Bees Back to OSV

Tea Time at the Village

Honoring Composer John Williams

A 19th-Century Thanksgiving

Cider House Rules

Saving the OSV Sawmill

a member magazine that keeps you coming back Old Sturbridge Village, a museum and learning resource of Destination: Old Sturbridge Village New England life, invites each visitor to find meaning, pleasure, A message from President and CEO Jim Donahue relevance, and inspiration through the exploration of history.

ere at the Village, we are a very different place than we were just a few years ago. When I arrived in 2007, the OSV lodging property adjacent to the Village on Route 20 was shuttered and for sale, sending a sad message to our museum community – and to the 20,000 motorists passing by each day. Now, the Inn and Lodges are beautifully restored and open for business, thanks to the generosity of Volume LIII, No. 3 OSV Trustee Robert W. (Bob) Reeder III and his wife, Lorraine, who funded Winter 2013 – 2014 the renovation. On the Cover: to the WINTER EDITION SM With the opening of the Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Family Lodges, we OSV Member Amanda Welcome of our VISITOR magazine. We hope that you will learn are now a vibrant destination, offering a rich and multifaceted daytime experience Evans dressed for at the Village, and a sumptuously comfortable and convenient place to stay at day’s end. winter 1830s style. new things and come to visit the Village soon. There is Reaction has been enthusiastic and overwhelmingly positive, and our lodging guests are always something fun to do at Old Sturbridge Village. posting rave reviews on TripAdvisor.com, with many calling the property “A+ lodging” and giving

it five-star ratings. Jim Donahue In This Issue: President and CEO As a thank-you to our Members, we are offering 50 percent off room rates on select dates Ann Lindblad through March 31. Read the details of this offer on page 20, and learn about discount packages 4 Bringing Bees Back to OSV Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Christmas by Candlelight, Hearthside Bounty, Dinner in a Country Village, and more. 6 Tea Time at the Village Doreen St. John and Yellow Inc. Design Now, with everything in place – lodging, dining, and a year-round offering of day and Kate Brandt 8 John Williams Marketing and Communications evening museum programs, the possibilities are endless and exciting. We are the ideal place for Receives Coordinator 2013 Ken heritage and culinary travelers, scholars, corporate retreats, student tours, and perhaps most fitting – The Old Sturbridge Village destination weddings. Because we can now offer luxurious lodging for entire wedding parties, we Burns Lifetime Visitor is published three times Achievement Award a year for the Friends of have already booked a record number of weddings for 2014. Old Sturbridge Village as a benefit of membership by The return of lodging to the Village is just the latest step in restoring OSV’s position as 10 A 19th-Century Old Sturbridge Inc., Thanksgiving 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, one of the major tourist destinations in the state – and in New England. What we offer simply Sturbridge, MA 01566. The Making of an Exhibit cannot be duplicated. Think about it – at Old Sturbridge Village, visitors can come see our annual 12 Yearly Membership: Antique Sleigh Rally in February and then stay in a beautiful circa 1789 inn listed on the National Delightfully Designed: The Furniture $50 for Individual and Life of Nathan Lombard $80 for Individual Plus One and Dual Register of Historic Places. Where else can you have an experience like that? $90 for Family $120 for Family Plus One 14 Cider House Rules Apple cider – essential beverage of early Family membership benefits are extended to two adults living at the same address and their New England children or grandchildren under the age of 18. Individual Plus One includes a complimentary 16 Employee Profile guest admission with each visit. Family Plus One includes two adults, one guest, and their OSV Tin Shop Gets Support from Savers Bank A Conversation with Clyde Gagnon children/grandchildren under 18.

Of all the interactive exhibits at the Village, our Tin Shop is one of the most popular. 17 Introducing the Members Enjoy: Old Sturbridge Village • Free, unlimited daytime admission Visitors marvel at how our “tinners” can take a sheet of metal and turn it into a work • 25% discount on guest admissions Preservation Society • 10% discount at museum shops of art like our famous starburst punched tin lanterns. The building itself dates to the • 10% discount on food services early 1800s and as you can imagine, it needs regular care and maintenance after more 18 Martha Hamilton Receives • 10% discount on purchase of OSV President’s Award gift memberships than 200 years of service – especially in its current role, seeing foot traffic from more • Discounts at partner living history museums than 250,000 people annually! 18 Our Federalist Dinner • Free members-only programs • Annual members recognition event So it is with deep gratitude that we at the Village recognize Joe Coderre, president 19 OSV Gala Nets $135,000 • Advance notice of Village programs of Savers Bank, for giving financial support to our Tin Shop as part of OSV’s Adopt- and events 20 So Comfortable, So Close • Special member rates for many of a-Building program. Savers Bank, which has offices in Sturbridge, Southbridge, the Village’s fee-based programs OSV Member Discounts at the • Periodic e-mails, newsletters, and Charlton, Auburn, Grafton, and Uxbridge, is a bank committed to supporting the local Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder updates on Village happenings • Members-only Dog Days community – and it shows. We are honored to be a recipient of the bank’s generosity. Savers Bank President Joe Coderre Family Lodges PHOTOgraphs: To join, to subscribe, or to provide Cover: Hornick/Rivilin 21 Supporters Save OSV’s Sawmill a change of address, write the Above: Webb Chappell Membership Department, e-mail [email protected], 22 Upcoming Events or call 800-SEE-1830.

2 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 3 explained Contino. “It’s hard to ask questions until you’ve been through it Bringing Bees once and you know a little more about what’s going on.” The next step in the project was Back to OSV construction of the exhibit with an By David Roorbach observation hive. The exhibit found its home next to the Herb Garden in the old herb shed, a move made possible by a $7,241 grant from the Frances R. Dewing Foundation, an organization that supports innovative ways of or the first time in more than a decade, Old Sturbridge Village is once again keeping bees on teaching young elementary school children. the premises. The revived beekeeping program features two modern hives tucked away in one “The Dewing Foundation invests its money of the Village orchards, along with an observation hive inside the new beekeeping exhibit, in capital projects that make a difference, and the which opened July 24. beekeeping exhibit was perfect for that,” Contino noted. In the early 19th century, beekeeping was practiced by progressive farmers who reaped A partnership with Worcester County Beekeepers benefits such as honey, beeswax, and increased pollination. Today, the Village is beginning to Association, which constructed the observation hive, is a see a revitalization of both its herb garden and orchard, but the hives and the exhibit have been vital part of the educational aspect of the exhibit. Visitors enjoy looking for the queen bee, who is marked with a red dot, months in the making. “Observation hives break down that barrier that among the workers and drones in OSV’s new observation hive, which The idea to bring back the bees after a long layoff came to life in the spring of 2012, when says bees are scary things that people are afraid of,” said was donated by the Worcester County Beekeepers Association. Coordinator of Agriculture Rhys Simmons and Coordinator of Households Jean Contino Simmons, “but [people] don’t understand what the attended the Worcester County Beekeepers Association’s School. After completing the eight- bees’ role is in everyday life. They just think of bees as week program, they started up the Village’s two modern hives, and their real beekeeping things that sting them. The observation hive allows you education began in earnest. to sit there and look at the bees doing all this work to “The first time you open up a hive you think, ‘What am I looking at?’” said Simmons. produce a little bit of honey.” “It’s a huge learning curve. It’s one of those things where the more you learn, the more you The exhibit helps connect visitors to the past by Did you know? realize you don’t know,” admitted Contino. “They’re living creatures; they don’t necessarily referencing best-practice books and advice literature follow a pattern. It doesn’t matter what the rules say they’re going to do.” from the early 19th century, as well as showcasing • Healthy and productive queen bees can lay up to The beekeepers have learned a lot through their hands-on experiences, and admittedly, reproductions of a 19th-century hive, bee dress, and 2,000 eggs per day during the spring, more than they’re still learning the tricks of the trade. Contino and Simmons went back to bee school for beekeeping tools. The exhibit also dives into the their own body weight in eggs. the second time this past spring in order to learn more and refresh their memories. practices and concerns of 21st-century beekeepers, • One hive of bees can require 80 to 100 pounds “There are always new things you can pick up, and now we have questions we can ask,” including diseases like Colony Collapse Disorder of honey just to make it through the winter. (CCD). • Apiary: A place in which a colony or colonies The plight of modern bees and beekeeping is a of bees are kept, as a stand or shed for beehives point of emphasis for the program and the exhibit. or a bee house containing a number of beehives. The increasing intensity of diseases and disorders has • Swarm: A body of honeybees that emigrates ramifications for everyone. from a hive and flies off together, accompanied “If they’re not able to pollinate, we’re not going to by a queen, to start a new colony. get the crops,” summed up Contino. • CCD: Colony Collapse Disorder is a From educating about the past to highlighting phenomenon in which worker bees from a concerns in the present, the new exhibit is sure to beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. Illustrations of vintage beekeeping equipment from the exhibit (l–r): pique the interest of every visitor who stops by. There Bee-dress, or head covering; fumigating box; beehive invented by is a wide range of topics to be explored and curiosities • Supersedure: The process by which an Mrs. Mary Griffeth, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the 1820s. waiting to be satisfied. old queen bee is replaced by a new queen. The OSV beekeeping exhibit was made possible through a grant Supersedure may be initiated due to old age of a from the Frances R. Dewing Foundation. “Bees are just plain fascinating. You wouldn’t think there was that much going on and that you’d figure out queen or a diseased or failing queen. their routine, but every day is different,” noted Contino. “There’s something new to learn every day.”

osv visitor winter 2013–2014 5 4 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 Tea Time at the Village By Lorraine Reeder, Old Sturbridge Village volunteer and donor

any visitors to Old Sturbridge Village expensive by virtue of their limited availability; the believe the Boston Tea Party in 1773 put blacks—especially Bohea—had a smoky flavor that an end to tea drinking in New England, would have hidden any degeneration of the leaves but that protest was limited to one during the long voyage across the sea. shipment in one port, and the offensive Period advice literature mentions formal tea parties, tax was eventually removed. The tea served in the “common way,” as well as “afternoon Temperance Movement, which urged tea,” usually served around 3:00 p.m. abstinence from all stimulants, also failed At tea time, sweets were served in individual to quash the growing popularity of tea, portions to show the importance of guests. The oldest and the beverage eventually became a bit female guest was served first, down to the youngest; of a status symbol. then the male guests in that order; then the family, with Tea from China was imported into Europe in the the hostess being served last. And guests drank tea from OSV Interpreter Victoria Belisle demonstrates afternoon tea 1830s-style. After a hostess poured tea into each guest’s cup, the loose tea leaves sank early 17th century, around the time coffee and chocolate their saucers, not from their cups! to the bottom, and the liquid was poured into the deep saucer. Guests drank from their saucers, tipped their tea leaves into the slop bowl and placed were introduced, and by 1690 all three were being sold in In the Village, we interpret afternoon tea as a their empty cups onto glass cup plates to protect the tablecloth from stains.

midday social event, and present both the formal and “One of the all-time great beverages of the world.” informal versions through exhibits in the Fitch and Towne A Few Words about Tea houses. Tea was taken in a separate room in the house—the The definition of tea includes “infusions prepared from New England. Although chocolate was preferred, coffee parlor—and a prominent family such as the Townes would leaves, flowers, etc., of other plants,” and includes herbals was cheaper and led to the opening of “coffeehouses” have had silver tea pots and matching porcelain tea sets. used for medicinal purposes. Current tea lovers, however, where tea was also served. Besides the notion that However, it was common—and socially acceptable—for restrict their references to leaves that come from the tea was for medicinal purposes, Englishmen preferred families such as the Fitches to purchase single items of a tea camellia sinensis plant. The varieties of teas made from drinking coffee in public and in the company of other set at a time, thus accumulating mismatched sets. these green leaves are then named for the region in which men. Thus, tea drinking in the home became fashionable No matter when, where, or how tea lovers around the they are grown and the way that they are processed after and led not only to rituals as to when, where, and how globe prefer their tea, no doubt few would argue with this harvesting. it was served, but also to trends in teapot decoration and Oxford Companion of Food description of tea: “One of the The differentiation of “Young Hyson,” “Hyson,” and fads in sugar tong design. all-time great beverages of the world.” “Hyson skin,” for example, indicates if the leaves were It’s likely that the tea consumed in the Sturbridge picked early or late in the harvest season. Their leaves area was imported from Canton, China, by Edward stay green because they are immediately dried to stop Carrington of Providence, Rhode Island, according to Using traditional methods, OSV “tinner” Phil Eckert created 15 limited the natural oxidation process. Souchong, Bohea, and information found in Peter Parley’s Magazine Based on historical research, edition tea service sets, each consisting of a waiter, a tea pot, creamer, sugar Congou are black teas – their leaves are heated and dried for Children and Youth printed in 1833–34. bowl, and tea canister. The sets are japanned—resin-coated in black and Certified Tea Specialist and American Tea Master Jeni Dodd simultaneously, and they are also “late harvest” leaves. The green teas would have been more polished—and hand-painted by local artist Ann Patsis in the Oriental style similar to that of two artifact tea canisters in the Asa Knight Store (shown created an exclusive Old Sturbridge Old Sturbridge Village blend, which is available with Interpreter Alta Eaton above). The reproduction sets and new Old Village Blend Sturbridge Village Blend tea are available exclusively at the Old Sturbridge for sale in the Old Sturbridge Inn Inn and Reeder Family Lodges. For information, call 508-347-5056. and Reeder Family Lodges office. TEA OSV Interpreter Jean Contino recommends the tea because “you FAR RIGHT: From the OSV collection: Old Sturbridge Village 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road can actually taste both the green and copper lustre teapot and a pewter teapot Sturbridge, MA 01566 www.osv.org the black and enjoy them both; one circa (1825–1860). doesn’t overpower the other.”

6 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 7 Award-Winning Film and Concert Composer John Williams Receives 2013 Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award 1 2 1. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (left) and OSV President and CEO Jim Donahue (right) present a redware platter made by Village potters to composer John Williams. 2. John Williams and Ken Burns greet guests from Harrington Hospital (from left): Dr. James Stephens, President and CEO Ed Moore, and ocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Dr. Kate Mason. Village presented celebrated film and concert composer D John Williams with the 2013 “Ken Burns Lifetime 5 Achievement Award” at a recent fund-raising dinner sponsored by Fallon Community Health Plan. 3. John Williams is escorted to dinner by OSV’s Dani Delaini. One of America’s most accomplished composers, Williams has 4. Chris Cassidy, senior vice president written the music and served as music director for more than 100 and chief communications officer of event films. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg sponsor Fallon Community Health Plan, welcomes guests. has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful 5. Honoree John Williams addresses the films, includingSchindler’s List, E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic audience after accepting the 2013 Ken 3 4 Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, and Burns Lifetime Achievement Award. Lincoln. Williams also composed the scores for all six Star Wars films, and the first three Harry Potter films. Ken Burns is renowned for his award-winning films, like The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball, With 48 Oscar nominations, Williams is the most nominated The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and The Dust Bowl. He made his first film, Working in Rural living person and the second-most nominated person in the history New England, at Old Sturbridge Village in 1975 as a film major at Hampshire College. OSV Williams has composed music for of the Academy Awards. He has served as music director and laureate honored Burns in 2008 for his achievements, and past “Ken Burns Awards” have been presented nearly 80 films, including: conductor for the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains artistic to journalist and author Tom Brokaw, actor Sam Waterston, presidential historian Doris Kearns relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras. Amistad Goodwin, and to actress Laura Linney. Born on the Fourth of July Close Encounters of the Third Kind “When you honor John Williams, you are honoring one E.T. – the Extra-Terrestrial of the great musical storytellers of all time. I would not Empire of the Sun And it was an enormously moving experience for me. How much time does it take to compose a film score? Far and Away know how to make movies without this gentleman.” I was just speechless, I couldn’t even catch my breath. If you take a film like one of the Harry Potter films, for Goodbye Mr. Chips —Steven Spielberg I said, “Steven, this is a great film, and you need a better example, there are two hours of music in the score, so one Harry Potter – first three films composer than I am to write this music.” And he said really needs to do a minute and a half a day or two Home Alone In accepting the award, Williams said, “If you ask me, ‘What very sweetly, “I know, but they’re all dead!” minutes. And with a score like that, which is very active – Hook director would you like to work with?’ it would certainly be Ken every minute of most scenes requires a lot of activity from Indiana Jones trilogy Burns. I am such a fan of his, and such a devoted watcher of Jaws On E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: The last 10 minutes of the orchestra – and so it’s really an intensive six and one- JFK everything he does. When the invitation came to me to be with you the film, where the children on their bicycles try to take half day work week. I am antediluvian in that I don’t have Jurassic Park tonight, I didn’t have to give it a whisker of thought, I would have their friend, E.T., to the spaceship to return him to his synthesizers and computers. I’m still working with a pencil Lincoln come from Shanghai, had I been there.” home, a full thousand feet of 35 millimeter film, required and a piece of paper, and if I have to write a 32-note scale, Nixon Williams showed film clips from many of his most memorable a very precise choreography from the orchestra. And I I’ve got to write every note. So films that require over an Saving Private Ryan films, and captivated the audience with anecdotes about his longtime couldn’t get it right. So Steven said to me, ‘Why don’t hour of music are quite work intensive. Schindler’s List partnership with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, his thoughts on musical you just have the orchestra play the 10-minute piece, Star Wars trilogy collaboration, the process of composing for film, American music, and turn the film off, conduct the orchestra, and play it so For which project would you most like to be Superman his favorite film projects. Here are some highlights: that you’re happy about all the musical nuances?’ And he remembered? I often answer that question by suggesting He also composed the popular cut the last reel to the music track. It was the greatest Close Encounters of the Third Kind might be my favorite film NBC News theme The Mission On Schindler’s List: When Steven Spielberg finished shooting the luxury for me – for any film composer.” in many ways, particularly the second half of the film. It is film and editing it, we watched the film together, just the two of us. magical and it’s something more than celluloid, frames, and sprocket holes. It seems to me at least to be a live experience.

8 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 9 Marlborough ‘The king and high priest of all festivals’ Pudding Receipt (Modern translation) A 19th-Century Thanksgiving Makes one pie: 6 tablespoons butter 3/4 cup white sugar By Laura Chilson, OSV Interpreter Juice of 1 lemon 4 eggs 3/4 cup stewed, pureed apples 1 pie crust or the New Englanders of the early 19th Once fully prepared, the banquet would be expected 3/4 cup sherry 2 teaspoon grated century, Christmas was only legend, and to crowd not only the dining table, but also every other 1/2 cup heavy cream nutmeg (or to taste) Thanksgiving was, as Harriet Beecher available surface in the parlor. Such a bountiful meal Stowe put it, “the king and high priest could last a couple of hours. First came the roast turkey, 1. Melt butter and set aside to cool. of all festivals.” Thanksgiving began as meats, and the chicken pie; then pies and puddings of all 2. Squeeze lemon and remove seeds. primarily religious in its purpose. In sorts, along with fruits and nuts, pickles, preserves, jams, 3. Add lemon to stewed apples, sherry, cream, and the latter half of the 18th century, the cheese, and breads. sugar, and mix well. declarations of thanks given by governors Pies, though a very common foodstuff, were never 4. Add melted butter to mixture, blending well. and members of the clergy evolved into a eaten with such variety at one time. The most popular 5. Beat eggs and add to mixture. New England tradition. It suited a people kinds were apple, mince, and Marlborough; though 6. Prepare pastry and line deep 8-inch pie plate. of puritanical leanings much better than pumpkin, cranberry, apple, currant, and many more are 7. Season with grated nutmeg, and spoon mixture into Christmas, which had been abandoned referenced. Of all these types, Marlborough Pudding was prepared pie plate. after the Protestant split from the Catholic Church the most evocative of the day. Every household had 8. Bake 15 minutes at 400°F. Reduce heat to 350°F, in the 16th century. a family recipe, which tradition mandated they and bake 45 minutes more or until a knife inserted Yet, even by the early 19th century, find superior to all others. in the center comes out clean. Cool before serving. there was a sense that the holiday was Meats, too, were present in great variety. ivilin R k/ becoming increasingly secular. The Most families did not have time in the c Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook: Authentic Early American rni o day was still treated as a Sabbath, with midst of preparations to butcher pigs H Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, 3rd Edition; Edited by families attending services in the or cattle for fresh meat, but mutton Debra Friedman and Jack Larkin morning, but soon Thanksgiving and fowl could be dressed out, and Holiday Baking Advice became an inextricable New England in most cases a turkey would need to tradition extending far beyond gratitude be purchased. These 19th-century from Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and for the bounty of winter stores to turkeys were much smaller than our Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie, of Philadelphia encompass home and family. Good snowfall “butterball” turkeys today. Not only made traveling easier, sleighs being faster and were the breeds slighter, but many • The [dried] fruit [in cakes] must be well sprinkled smoother than carts or carriages, and thus it was of the birds were also marched by a with flour, lest it sink to the bottom. P. 15 expected that children would return home for drover from town to town to be sold. the celebrations. Above all, the family would be Though its resultant meagerness meant that • apples should be cut into very thin slices, and looking forward most to the dinner. the turkey would be an addition rather than are much improved by a little lemon peel. P. 24 Preparations for the feast began as soon as the a mainstay, it was still considered imperative to the meal. governor announced on which Thursday in late A story in the December 12, 1828, edition of Freedom’s • in making cakes, it is particularly necessary that November or early December the holiday was to occur. Sentinel, a Boston newspaper, put it thus: the eggs should be well beaten. They are not Pies, cakes, and puddings were prepared, and then tucked “One man who bought a fine turkey a day or sufficiently light till the surface looks smooth and level, and till they get so thick as to be of the into every obliging bedroom and attic corner to freeze two previous, carried it into the market and resold it, [consistency] of boiled custard. P. 45 until the day arrived. The business of these preceding concluding to make his Thanksgiving dinner on beef. weeks culminated in the day itself. A roaring fire would This man could not have been a full-blooded Yankee. • butter and sugar should be stirred till it looks like be built up in the parlor early to thaw the pervasive chill, What, go without turkey on Thanksgiving day…? The thick cream, and till it stands up in the pan. P. 45 while in the kitchen the many frozen pies, puddings, and thing is incredible.” cakes would receive similar treatment. Much preparation With such abundance of meats, pies, and family, a • before you ice a cake, dredge it all over with had been made the night before, but meats still had to be 19th-century Thanksgiving created both the reason for flour, and then wipe the flour off. This will enable roasted or boiled and the vegetable dishes fried or stewed. gratitude and its celebration. you to spread on the icing more evenly. P. 45

10 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 11 Delightfully Designed – of the exhibit to show visitors how Lombard created his masterpieces. The Furniture and Life of Nathan Lombard The involvement of these modern-day craftsmen reminds us that Massachusetts’ strong history of furniture continues to be alive and well today. Indeed, this exhibit is The Making of an Exhibit part of a much larger, yearlong celebration of furniture across the Bay State called Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture By Christie Jackson, Curator of Decorative Arts (www.fourcenturies.org). OSV is one of 11 institutions 1 featuring exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations and publications he old proverb “It takes a village on Massachusetts’ legacy of furniture making. to raise a child” could easily be One of the items on display is an elaborate fire screen changed to: “It takes a Village to put originally owned by Ezra Allen, a cousin of Nathan Lombard’s on an exhibit.” Our newest exhibit, wife, Delight Allen Lombard. Several family artifacts are also Delightfully Designed – The Furniture and included in the exhibit, including a fabulous dress owned by Life of Nathan Lombard, has just opened. Ezra’s daughter, Mary C. Allen. In a joint effort between staff The task of researching and gathering and volunteers of the curatorial, interpretation, and costume artifacts by this famous cabinetmaker has departments, we set out to re- this garment. been an ambitious project for us. A year’s worth of Reproducing the dress took more than 300 hours of T 2 curatorial work and the collaboration of departments painstaking study, sketching, and patternmaking led by OSV across the Village culminated in the exhibit’s debut a staffers Christine Bates, Jean Contino, and Jen Dennehy. OSV few weeks ago. Interpreter Victoria Belisle will wear the dress around the The show includes 15 Nathan Lombard furniture Village as part of her performances. Another copy of the pieces on loan from museums and private collections – The layout of the gallery space itself mirrors dress will be handsewn by Jean Contino, Linda Oakley, and all of which had to be carefully packed up to travel to Lombard’s designs. My colleague, Bruce Craven, other interpreters in the Village, presenting an opportunity to Sturbridge. This is a coming home, of sorts, for these poured over photographs of Lombard furniture to discuss the Lombard exhibit and women’s crafts. Interpreter items because Lombard was born in Brimfield, married help guide our approach. Our final design includes Will Contino will bind a reproduction of the 1826 friendship in Sturbridge, and settled in nearby Sutton. Our exhibit curved platforms, a circular island, and no right album filled with poems and notes penned by Lombard’s is the largest reunion of Lombard’s pieces since they angles in the room. Constructing curved platforms nieces and cousins, including Mary Allen. left his workshop in the early 1800s. is not an easy matter, leading Bruce to construct an When I look back at this endeavor, I am overwhelmed What makes Lombard truly extraordinary as a 11-foot compass to create full-size templates of the by the efforts of so many colleagues and OSV friends. This cabinetmaker was his masterful use of decorative inlay. rounded risers. project, just like Nathan Lombard’s own story, is about so He incorporated twisting, swirling vines blooming We believe the gallery’s design captures 3 much more than furniture. It is about people, relationships, with flowers, all cascading down desk fronts and table the energy and movement of Lombard’s work, and sharing a story. Come and enjoy the exhibit, which is on tops. Geometric patterns lend sophistication to his creating a backdrop worthy of his pieces. Hand- display until May 4, 2014. 1. Woodworkers from compositions, while eagles with outstretched wings applied decorative paint finishes, wall graphics, and North Bennet Street add a bit of whimsy to his pieces. Yet, there is so much unconventional color choices (and stripes!) add a School in Boston Learn more about furniture making measure an artifact table more to Lombard than beautiful inlay. My approach to dash of whimsy to the space. A series of exhibit-related programs is offered on selected to re-create it for the this project was to make Lombard’s furniture personal Regional woodworker Freddy Roman, New Village. Saturdays through April. Details: www.osv/lombard; 800-SEE-1830. and approachable. His story is as much about family England chapter leader of the Society of American 2. Staffers install signs and community as it is about craftsmanship. Period Furniture Makers, is reproducing OSV’s in the exhibit space. Woodworking Demonstrations: Artisans from Boston’s renowned An approach like this requires an inventive newly acquired Lombard chest of drawers and 3. OSV Costume North Bennet Street School will provide historic woodworking Coordinator Chris technique to building the exhibit, and a drop-leaf table so that we may use reproductions demonstrations in the OSV Visitor Center. Bates makes collaborative effort with colleagues out in the Village. Artisans from the North adjustments to a dress copied across the museum and farther Bennet Street School in Boston created from one in the Lombard exhibit, Curator’s Tours: Tour the Delightfully Designed exhibit with which will be worn by Interpreter afield to make this exhibit hands-on interactive furniture pieces, and OSV Curator of Decorative Arts Christie Jackson. Victoria Belisle. something truly they will also conduct demonstrations OPPOSITE PAGE: Curator of memorable. on select days over the course Decorative Arts Christie Jackson Useful Trees of New England: Learn to identify trees used in points out a detail on the Village’s furniture production by local woodworkers. Led by Tom Kelleher, Nathan Lombard drop-leaf table. curator of mechanical arts.

12 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 13 Making Cider the Old-fashioned Way:

Apple crushing – Apples are crushed by pair of meshing cylinders, (one with teeth, “nuts,” and the other with mortises), turned by a horse-drawn sweep arm. The “pomace” collects in a trough and mellows for 12 to 24 hours, attracting wild yeast from the air.

Cider House Rules Building the “cheese” – The pomace is shoveled onto the press bed, wrapped in layers of straw to bind it together. Apple cider – essential beverage Planks are placed on top, and the press screwed and turned down tight. The juice flows into a tub. Pressing can take of early New England hours or even days.

By Tom Kelleher, Curator of Mechanical Arts Final pressing – When the juice flow stops, screws are raised, the cheese edges are cut, put back on top, and re-pressed. Pouring boiling water into holes chopped in or early farm families, the most important by- unique mix of apples, which varied yearly. Any imperfect the cheese extracts the last bit of juice, and a final pressing product of the apple harvest was cider, and they fruit became cider. At Old Sturbridge Village, we have a makes diluted but potable “water cider.” F had to make enough to sustain them through “cider orchard” grown from seed at the Freeman farm, winter, spring, the heat of summer and into the next and an orchard of late 18th and early 19th century grafted Barreling – To avert spoilage, sulfur-soaked strips of fall’s apple harvest. But 19th-century farmers would not heirloom varietals at the Towne farm. cloth are burned in the bung holes of white oak barrels, recognize the sweet cider we enjoy today. Apples varied from farm to farm, as did the care taken producing sulfur dioxide smoke to kill microorganisms. Today, fresh, refrigerated, unfiltered apple juice is what with them. Period advice authors agreed that cleanliness (Early Americans knew that burning a “sulfur match” most people mean by “cider.” In early New England, cider was important for a good product, but many ignored this, made for better cider, but did not know why). The juice is was hard, not sweet. With no way to producing bad cider as a result. The ideal filtered through straw and poured into the barrels. keep apple juice fresh, it was “hardened cider apple should be clean, unbruised, off” to a mild 4 percent or so alcohol overripe, but free of decay. If one can Removing the cheese – Most farmers fed the straw content. Cider was the common year- easily press a thumb through the skin into and pressed apples to pigs; some just let it rot, and others round beverage for rural families, and juicy white flesh, it is at a perfect stage for used it to fertilize their orchards or grow new apple trees. it was how most apples were preserved making into cider. before refrigerated storage. Most towns had a handful of cider Fermentation – Cider barrels are laid on their sides Most farms kept substantial mills, some just rudimentary machinery set and bungs are removed to allow the cider to ferment, or orchards because early 19th-century up as needed and stored away afterward. “work,” a vital step in making cider that will keep. Foam New England families made 5–10 Neighboring farmers rented use of cider appears – a sign that wild yeast are digesting the fruit sugars, barrels of cider annually. While this mills to make their own cider. Unlike converting them into alcohol and carbon dioxide gas. Often may sound like a lot, it is just a few glasses per person per grist mills, the customer did the work, not the mill owner. a bit of bone, meat, or blood was added to aid fermentation. day. Massachusetts native and second U.S. President John (Compare a gristmill to a dry cleaner, and a cider mill to a Adams started each day with a glass of hard cider, as did Laundromat.) Storage – After weeks or months, the foaming stops countless others. Sweet cider was not the final product, but just a step and the cider becomes still. The yeast, having digested all Cider starts with apples, and like people, apples on the way to the much safer and better-keeping final the sweetness, have died. The almost clear, amber cider is reproduce sexually – each seed produces a genetically product: hard cider. Farm children craved the sweet, rich siphoned into clean barrels, filled to the brim and bunged unique individual. To propagate more of a desired juice of the mill, sipping it through bits of straw. Since this up tight to keep out the air, lest the cider turn to vinegar. variety, planting seeds will not do; one must graft from raw “must” is rich in fiber and microorganisms, more than The scum, dead yeast, and apple particles are discarded. the favored tree. This was a fussy process and most just a sip or two can cause cramps, gas, and severe diarrhea. planted from seed, keeping trees that produced acceptable Wise parents prevented kids from overindulging. Modern When properly made, cider will keep for years, but it only fruits and cutting down the rest. These random, unnamed cider mills producing sweet cider immediately pasteurize needs to keep until the next fall, when there will be more fruits were called “cider apples.” Each orchard produced a and refrigerate the juice, and sell it quickly. apples to make another batch of cider.

14 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 15 employee profile

Introducing the Old Sturbridge Village Preservation Society

id you know that Old Sturbridge D Village is the Northeast’s largest outdoor history museum, attracting more than a quarter million visitors each year from all over the world? An extensive collection of historic and Multi-talented Interpreter reproduction buildings from throughout New England and New York provides the foundation, backdrop, and stage for our public programming. As a member of the OSV Board of Trustees, I know firsthand A Conversation with Clyde Gagnon how important it is to maintain these authentic restorations. And how costly! The early American lifestyle you experience at OSV is literally By Margaret LeRoux The biggest challenge came early. “When I got here, framed up in 68 buildings. That’s 65 brick and stone chimneys, 60,979 square here’s a lot of 21st-century expertise required to the electrical system was in chaos,” he says. Over the years, feet of wood floors, 1,000+ windows, and 208 wooden shutters, not to mention support the infrastructure of 19th-century Old Clyde rebuilt, rehabbed, renovated, and restructured. hundreds of interior and exterior wall spaces requiring period paint and wallpaper. Sturbridge Village. For the past 40 years, Clyde “We try to make our equipment last as long as Please join me in building the Old Sturbridge Village Preservation Society. T Your pledge of an automatic monthly payment at one of our affordable gift levels will Gagnon, OSV’s electrician, has been a behind-the-scenes possible; it would break the bank if we had to replace it all maestro. You might also say he’s an expert at time travel, as on a normal life cycle basis,” says Brad King. “Clyde is a help preserve this shining example of America’s past, far into the future. he makes sure that 200-year-old structures’ unseen fiber- master of keeping things running – he’s the guy with the optic and burglar alarms are in peak operation. mechanical Band-Aids!” The Village encompasses 371 acres and 125 structures. Clyde notes that some of the equipment is more than “A good portion of our infrastructure is underground – 50 years old. The Bullard Tavern’s air conditioning unit Host of The New Yankee Workshop; Master Carpenter for ; the bulk of our power feeds, phone cabling, water and came from the White House when Richard Nixon was Old Sturbridge Village Trustee sewer lines,” says Brad King, senior vice president, museum president. Clyde bought it at a government surplus sale. operations, who also is Clyde’s boss. “There are over 240 “We always try to do things as frugally as possible; I individual climate control systems with a variety of furnaces guess that’s my legacy,” he says. “Electricians working at Choose from three options to support and heaters throughout the Village; Clyde is the go-to guy the Village in the future may ask why didn’t I do things the Preservation Society: for information on all of it.” differently, but we didn’t have the budget.” 1. OSV Center Village Sustainer Your pledge of $20 per month helps “ I know old houses. Brad praised Clyde’s diagnostic skills. “He has a wealth A recent project he points to with pride is the maintain the structures around “the Common” at Old Sturbridge Village, of knowledge about our equipment and how to care for it. re-opening of the Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Family including Salem Towne House, Bullard Tavern, The Parsonage, Law Office, And I know we all He works hard to keep everything running,” he says. Lodges. The 10-room inn was built in 1789 and is on Center Meetinghouse, Fenno House, Fitch House, and Thompson Bank. Clyde notes that he’s amassed volumes of information the National Register of Historic places. The buildings love the old houses on the Village’s infrastructure. “I go into a building and just had been closed for eight years, though Clyde worked 2. OSV Countryside Sustainer Your pledge of $50 per month provides listen; I can tell by the sound if something is not right,” diligently keeping the heat and electrical systems active. the care and upkeep of our countryside attractions, including the iconic he says. “It made the renovation much easier,” he says. Freeman Farm, the District Schoolhouse, Bixby House, the Covered at Old Sturbridge Clyde learned the Village’s systems on his first job after The Village has been a big part of Clyde’s life. “I Bridge, and our Saw, Grist, and Carding Mills. high school. He worked for a local electrician; OSV was was late to my wedding rehearsal because we were in the Village.” one of the accounts they serviced. Three years later, he process of getting power to the education building,” he 3. OSV Craft Shops Sustainer Your pledge of $100 per month applied for a position at the Village and was hired on the says. His wife, Renita, was a cook in the Bullard Tavern; maintains our most popular buildings and exhibits, the crafts shops, including the Tin, Blacksmith, Pottery, Printing, and Shoe Shops. spot. That was January 15, 1973; he’s been here ever since. she is now a volunteer who helps with special events. For information: He was Ken Burns’ electrician when the historian-turned- “When you work at OSV, it’s like joining a family,” Want to do more? For information about how you or your company www.osv.org/donors/ moviemaker made his first film at OSV. More recently, he adds. “Everyone really cares about each other, from the can have the exclusive opportunity to Adopt a Building at Old Sturbridge Clyde has been instrumental in repairing damage from a president to the housekeepers. That’s what makes it such a Village, please call our Development Office at 508-347-0250. preservation-society hurricane, a tornado, and a fire started by a lightning strike. great place to work!”

16 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 1717 2013 President’s Award OSV Gala Nets $135,000

ld Sturbridge Village President or the sixth year in a row, volunteer organizers of the O and CEO Jim Donahue honored F annual Old Sturbridge Village Gala have surpassed their noted American decorative arts expert goal – this year raising a net total of $135,000 – a 31 percent Martha D. Hamilton with the fifth annual increase over last year’s total. More than 200 people attended Old Sturbridge Village the September 14 event chaired by Angela Cheng-Cimini, who President’s Award at a was aided by a committee of 20 hardworking volunteers. Gold reception earlier this sponsor of the event was fiber-optic manufacturer Incom, Inc., year at Boston’s Union Honoree Martha Hamilton joins two former OSV President’s Award recipients: Brock Jobe (left), Winterthur professor of American decorative arts, and Jane Nylander, president emerita of Historic of Charlton. The annual Old Sturbridge Village Gala is the Club. Hamilton, whose New England. At right is Jim Donahue, president and CEO of Old Sturbridge Village. museum’s largest single fundraising event, raising a cumulative career includes 25 total of more than $600,000 to support Village programs since years as an Americana Special honorees for the evening were Kathy and Ron Vairo, of its inception. Southbridge, who received the “1946 Circle” award, named for the specialist at Skinner, Inc., year Old Sturbridge Village opened to the public. is a two-time winner of the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s Preservation Award, and also received a national publication award from the American Association of State and Local History. A noted writer and lecturer, she is a sought-after advisor to many of the region’s top museums and historical Martha Hamilton greets colleagues from Skinner, institutions, lending her expertise to the President’s Award recipient Martha Hamilton Inc. – Executive Vice President Stephen Fletcher, greets Thomas Michie, curator of decorative director of American furniture and decorative arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Strawbery arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine (left); Senior Appraiser LaGina Austin (center Banke Museum, Historic New England, and Arts, Boston, and Désirée Caldwell of the left), director of appraisal and auction services; and Old Sturbridge Village supporter Lorraine Reeder, of Bedford, New Fidelity Foundation. Chris Barber, deputy director, American furniture York, shares a moment with Massachusetts State Senator Stephen M. to Old Sturbridge Village. Brewer, of Barre, chair of the State Senate Ways and Means Committee. and decorative arts. Former Gala Chairs, OSV Trustee Ann Marie Argitis (center left) and Overseer Joan McGrath, of Sturbridge, chat with museum President and CEO Jim Donahue. Looking on is Richard McGrath (right), of Sturbridge. Our Federalist Dinner

very year, Old Sturbridge Village honors an important E group of donors and supporters of the Village – the Federalist Society. Support from this group is key to the 1 museum’s success and growth, and we thank them for their Examining silent auction items are (l-r): Dorothy Fullam, of West dedication to the Village. Brookfield and Princeton, New Jersey; Connie Gibson, of Union, Connecticut, Betsy Peppel, of Charlton, and Elizabeth Wyckoff, of The Old Sturbridge Village 2013 Gala Committee. New York City. 1. Nancy Beatty, of Upton, is surprised with a birthday cake.

2. Judy Jaeger, of Sturbridge, participates in a toast.

3. Alfred and Betsy McKee, of Longmeadow. 2 3

4. Alvonia and James Fitzhugh, of Guilford, Connecticut; Barbara Wuth, of Barrington, Rhode Island; Doe and John Carroll, of Old Lyme, Connecticut.

5. OSV Trustees Betsy Peppel, of Charlton; Meg Pierce, of Weston; and Donna DeCorleto, of Alexandria, Virginia. 4 5 Former OSV Trustee Mike Cimini and 2013 Gala Chair Angela Winning bidder Dr. Louis Fazen, of Southborough, and Gail Morgan, Cheng-Cimini, of Sturbridge. of Leicester.

18 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 19 Supporters step up to save Writer Dan Antion, of Hartford, Connecticut, shared impressions OSV’s Sawmill of his visit to the Sawmill dedication with readers of his woodworking blog. nswering an “SOS” call from OSV Trustee Here are excerpts: to “Save our Sawmill,” more than 600 Village supporters A donated more than $70,000 to repair the structure. As This Old Village a thank-you, Abram, host of public television’s The New Yankee Workshop and master carpenter of This Old House, welcomed Thanks to a Father’s Day gift from our donors of $100 or more to the recent reopening ceremony. daughter Faith, I got to see one of my The water-powered sawmill at Old Sturbridge Village is a heroes live. Faith contributed to the OSV Lodging Packages: rare American treasure – one of only a handful in the U.S. today. Sawmill restoration project at Old To reserve: Sawmills have operated on the OSV Millpond since the 1790s, 508-347-5056 or 774-304-1011 and the current mill was constructed by OSV staff based on Sturbridge Village, and she gave enough www.osv.org/inn plans of the circa-1820 Nichols-Colby sawmill of Bow, New to get invited to a presentation by Norm Christmas by Candlelight So Comfortable, So Close: Hampshire, which was destroyed by the hurricane of 1938. OSV Abram on the day the Sawmill was Package staff studied these plans at the Library of Congress and re-created dedicated. Faith and I spent the perfect fall December 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, OSV Member discounts at the this rare, working, up-and-down sawmill in 1984. day at the Village, and I was impressed with 21, or 22, 2013 Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Norm as a speaker, Norm as a volunteer Hearthside Bounty Package to OSV, and the stewardship of the January 25, February 15, or Family Lodges management and staff of OSV. March 22, 2014 Old Sturbridge Village is a significant ustomer reaction to the newly opened Old Sturbridge Inn and New England asset. We have visited this Romance Package Reeder Family Lodges has been overwhelmingly favorable, February 15, 2014 C especially from OSV Members and guests who have fond memories place many times. We were members for a of staying there in earlier years. And to thank Members for their support, while, but I think we suffered what may Dinner in a Country Village the lodging staff has extended a grand-opening special, offering a 50 percent be a common affliction – we thought we Package discount on Monday through Thursday night stays through March 31. had seen it. I didn’t realize or appreciate March 1 or March 22, 2014 Visitors gather for a Sawmill (Must be booked by December 31; some blackout dates apply; for details: how often things change at OSV, how often www.osv.org/members or call 508-347-5056, or 774-304-1011). demonstration. they evolve, and how much work goes into Yankee Winter Weekend In addition, a number of discount lodging packages are available for guests Package attending special events and popular programs at the Village, such as Christmas making sure some things, like the Sawmill, January 10, February 7, or Norm Abram talks to visiting don’t evolve. As Norm said, “Think of the by Candlelight, Hearthside Bounty, and Dinner in a Country Village. Among families. February 28, 2014 groups booking rooms at a brisk pace are wedding couples getting married world without sawmills.” It’s unfathomable at the Village, area corporations booking rooms for employees attending sales and not just for weekend woodworkers. meetings, and antique lovers attending the renowned Brimfield antiques shows. Wood remains a critical building material, The fully refurbished Inn and Lodges include 29 lodging units and the “...This is A+ lodging. and at OSV we can see the myriad ways it Rooms are newly done and historic 10-room Oliver Wight House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property is located just 500 yards from the OSV provides shelter, utility, comfort, and heat. immaculate.” entrance, and the close proximity makes it especially convenient for those I think that I am going to renew our visiting the Village. The reopening of the Inn and Lodges was made possible membership at OSV, and perhaps join Brad King, OSV senior vice president for “... A great place for a whole thanks to the generosity of OSV Trustee Robert W. (Bob) Reeder III and his museum operations, speaks to supporters Norm in funding the backlog of repair and wedding party – everyone could wife, Lorraine, of Bedford, New York, who underwrote the cost of renovation who donated funds for the Sawmill repairs. restoration projects on the sprawling campus. stay in this one place.” and initial operation of the property. Listening to Norm and the other speakers, The Oliver Wight House was built in 1789 for Oliver Wight, whose The OSV up-and-down Sawmill in action. and then spending a few hours walking brother, David, settled an adjacent farm on the property that is now Old Sturbridge Village. The house features rare original wall murals dating to the around, helped me understand why Old 1830s that are attributed to Rufus Porter, a widely known folk artist of the time. Sturbridge Village is worthy of my support.

20 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 osv visitor winter 2013–2014 21 Winter Discovery Adventures Dog Days December 26–27, January 18–19 January 4–5, February 1–2, March 1–2, Registration is now open for these April 5–6 two-day costumed programs for When man’s best friend needs a day trip, kids ages 6–17. Spend part of December visit OSV for Members-only Dog Days. Upcoming Events vacation or Martin Luther King, Jr. Share the quiet charm of the Village weekend leaping back into history for a with your leashed pup. Winter Comes Alive at Old Sturbridge Village unique and fun adventure.

Be Mine: Chocolate & Valentines February 8–9 Today, chocolate is everywhere, but in the 19th century, it was much more rare. Come see the unique ways it was Christmas by Candlelight hristmas enjoyed in the 1800s and the ancient December 6–8, 13–15, 20–22 by methods for preparing it. Learn about More and more people are Candlelight Christmas Vacation Week the area’s history as the birthplace of the valentine. making this event an important C December 26–January 1 part of their family holiday Make the most of your holiday break by traditions. Capture the best of visiting the Village for special activities all week long. Keep your fingers crossed Presidents Day Weekend the season with carols, sleigh February 15–17 for enough snow for sledding and sleigh Vacation week kicks off with special rides, roasted chestnuts, mulled rides! Visitors who attend Christmas by activities honoring our first President, cider, and more. Combine with Candlelight will receive a coupon for a a hero to early Americans. Learn a lodging package for additional free return visit during Christmas special dances for a Washington Ball, Vacation Week. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day savings and an extra special January 21 how to make Washington cake, experience. Visitors will receive The Village is open on this Monday and more. a coupon for a free return visit holiday when we honor the civil rights during Christmas Vacation Week. leader by learning about the 19th- century abolitionists – both well-known and ordinary men and women – who paved the way for Martin Luther King’s historic contributions. Thanksgiving Weekends in November Fire & Ice Days Celebrate Thanksgiving January 25–26 every weekend in November. Visiting a snow-blanketed Village is a Each weekend, you can hear special treat. Take advantage of winter- For times and details on Thanksgiving sermons at only opportunities like sledding and all upcoming events at the Meetinghouse, see target sleigh rides, and see ice cutting on the shooting (a favorite 19th- Millpond. Then warm up fireside for February School Vacation Old Sturbridge Village: Dinner in a Country Village stories, songs, and hot cider. century Thanksgiving pastime), Saturday evenings, January – March) February 15–23 www.osv.org; 800-SEE-1830. and see preparations for the Prepare a meal over the hearth using OSV specially designs a schedule Thanksgiving feast. During Antique Sleigh Rally during school vacation weeks – we 19th-century recipes and techniques February 1 Thanksgiving weekend, see under the guidance of an OSV historian, are open every day with events demonstrations of Native The excitement over this crowd-favorite catered to kids’ interests and parents’ Photos in this issue: Eric Antoniou, Bill Brett, David Burk, and then enjoy the dinner you have event continues to grow every year. See Webb Chappell, John Ferrarone, Laurie Holloway, American foodways and visit goals for safe and educational Hornick/Rivlin, Christie Jackson, Chuck Kidd, Ann Lindblad, made. This unique experience sells out dozens of horse-drawn antique sleighs Tim Mulcahy, Christine Peterson, Jeanette Robichaud, with the Indian Doctress. quickly, so book your date today. Lodging activities, including special Erika Sidor, DANNY ST. JOHN, Doreen St. John glide gracefully over the snow-packed performances and hands-on activities. packages available for select dates. course.

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