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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 A real old-fashioned fabulous 4th of July! Complete with children's bike & wagon parade, giant kite fly, potato sack races, kids liberty treasure hunt, garden crafts, live music, historic garden tours, costumed role-players, colonial hearth cooking, basket weaving, Island Pond Spinners, hand-thrown pottery, food, and fun for all. Tickets: Regular museum admission of $15 for adults. Kids 17 and under are FREE. Active military, retired military, and their families are FREE. Discounted admission for members. Click here to buy tickets online. An American Celebration! is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors:
PROGRAM: 10:00 – Colonial Costume Relay Game (Goodwin Garden) 10:30 – Pie Baking Competition – Judging Potato Sack Races (Goodwin Garden) 11:00 – US Naturalization Ceremony (Puddle Dock) Special Guest NH Governor John Lynch Kid’s Cup Cake Walk Game (Goodwin Garden) 11:30 – 1950’s Hoola Hoop Contest (Shapley/Drisco) 12:00 – Colonial Costume Relay Game (Goodwin Garden) 12:30 – Potato Sack Races (Goodwin Garden) Bubble Gum Blowing Contest (Shapley/Drisco) Pie Contest Winners Announced (Main Stage) Pie Contest Raffle Drawing (Tyco Visitor Center) 1:00 – Stunt Kite Demos (Prescott Park) Kid’s Cup Cake Walk Game (Goodwin Garden) Historic Garden Tour (Tyco Visitors Center) Abe Lincoln “Visit to NH” (behind Lowd House) 1:30 – Members Special Curator Tour (Carter Center) 1950’s Hoola Hoop Contest (Shapley/Drisco) Pie Contest Raffle Drawing (Tyco Visitor Center) 2:00 – Giant Kite Fly (Prescott Park) Colonial Costume Relay Game (Goodwin Garden) Emancipation Proclamation (behind Lowd House) 2:30 – Children’s Bike & Wagon Parade (Parade Tent) Potato Sack Races (Goodwin Garden) Fitz John Porter Exhibition Tour (Carter Center) Pie Contest Raffle Drawing (Tyco Visitor Center) 3:00 - Garden History Tour (Front of Tyco Visitors Center) Kid’s Cup Cake Walk Game (Goodwin Garden) 3:30 - Kid’s Kite Fly! (Prescott Park) Bubble Gum Blowing Contest (Shapley/Drisco) Pie Contest Raffle Drawing (Tyco Visitor Center) 4:00 – Gettysburg Address (behind Lowd House) Colonial Costume Relay Game (Goodwin Garden) 4:30 - Red, White & Blue Kite Fly! (Prescott Park) Potato Sack Races (Goodwin Garden) 1950’s Hoola Hoop Contest (Shapley/Drisco) Pie Contest Raffle Drawing (Tyco Visitor Center) 4:45 - Kid’s Cup Cake Walk Game (Goodwin Garden) Meet Abe Lincoln! 12:00 – 5:00 (behind Lowd House) Visit Abraham Lincoln in his tent at the Civil War camp. President Lincoln will give several speeches during the day: 1:00 A Visit to New Hampshire 2:00 Emancipation Proclamation 4:00 Gettysburg Address Civil War Encampment (Behind Lowd House) The Yankee Blue Civil War re-enactors set up camp and present living history of the Civil War era. LIVE MUSIC 12:00 - 2:30 Traditional Irish Music (Aldrich House Garden) 12:30 - 2:30 High Range (Main Stage) 3:00 - 5:00 Bedford Big Band (Main Stage) THROUGHOUT THE DAY Kids Liberty Treasure Hunt (Ages 6+) (Main Entrance) Explore the Museum! Children are given a list of historical items to locate during the day. Once they have completed their tasks they present their paper to the Prize Tent in Goodwin Garden. Pie Baking Contest & Raffle (Tyco Visitor Center) Take home an award winning pie! “The Best Pie in the Seacoast” and other wonderful professionally baked local pies will be raffled all day. Tickets $1. All proceeds go to support Museum Cooking Programs. The Candy Counter at the Marden-Abbott Store: Visit the 1940’s Abbott neighborhood store and purchase your own period candy to take home. Kids Garden Crafts (Goodwin Garden) -- Posies, Perfume and Fairy Houses in the Victorian Children’s Garden Kids’ Bike & Wagon Parade (on Puddle Dock near pine trees) Decorate your bike or wagon from 12-2:00pm and line up and wave at 2:30 for the parade! Blue Ocean Society Touch Tank (beside Jones House) Check out: hermit crabs, sea stars, blue mussels, periwinkles, dogwinkles, sea anemones, green crabs & barnacles! Traditional Games (Goodwin Garden) -- Join the competitions for patriotic prizes! Modern kids will learn to play: Cup Cake Walks, Potato Sack Races, Colonial Costume Relay. Old Fashioned Bubbles (Shapiro House Orchard) -- Make ‘em round, make ‘em square, play with a bubble wand, dip it in a dish of bubble liquid & watch the bubbles fly! The Cooper at Strawbery Banke (Dinsmore Shop) -- Visit Ron Raiselis and Glenn Lael at the Dinsmore Shop for traditional barrel making demonstrations. Let’s Go Fly a Kite! (across the street at Prescott Park) Giant kites, Stunt Kites and Kids Kites. Glenn Davison and members of the Kites over New England Kite Club demonstrate their amazingly beautiful flying skills. Dr. Jackson’s Surgery (Beside Dinsmore Shop) -- Meet Dr. Hall Jackson, prominent physician of Portsmouth in the late 18th century. Learn about medical practice of the period. Visit Mrs. Jackson and try your hand at spinning The Potters at Strawbery Banke (Cotton Tenant Potters) Visit with Maureen Mills and Steven Zoldak as they create beautiful hand-thrown stoneware in their shop. Colonial Hearth Cooking (Wheelwright House) 18th century colonial hearth cooking demonstrations Archaeology Field School(Chase House) -- Students work alongside professional archaeologists at an active excavation of the grounds of 1762 Chase House Site. Featured Exhibit (Carter Center Rowland Gallery) Fitz John Porter - Hero or Coward? Discover the truth about one of the most infamous scandals of the Civil War. Members Tour at 1:30 Listen To The Landscape (Throughout the Site) -- Take a tour of the gardens and landscapes using your cell phone as your guide. Stroll through original streetscapes to hear about the people and plants that helped to shape our past. (Look for white poles with small burgundy numbers) The Plants We Brought to America (1:00) -- Historic Garden Tours with the Museum’s Curator of Historic Landscapes, John Forti. (Across from Walsh House) Goodwin Mansion-- Visit Mrs. Goodwin in her stunning Victorian Garden, play children’s games and spot the fairy houses in her magical children’s garden. Salem Trayned Band -- A re-enactors pike company of the 1630s (Puddle Dock) Traditional Basket Weaving (Puddle Dock) -- Fred Lawson crafts fine traditional baskets. 18th Century Windsor Chair-Making (Puddle Dock) Demonstrations presented by Fred Chellis of Little River Windsors, Berwick ME. Island Pond Spinners (Across from Wheelwright House) 1940’s Victory Garden (Behind Marden-Abbott Store) Victory Garden Family Heirloom Seed Savings/Giveaway and Canning with Emma Pecunies 1940’s Style! (Victory Garden) Hands-on Weaving (Beside Wheelwright House) Museum teacher Judith Glotson Getz presents hand-on weaving demonstrations for adults & children. Tour a Gundalow 12– 5 (at Prescott Park) -- Step aboard the Captain Edward H Adams, a replica of a flat-bottomed sailing barge. Docked in the Piscataqua River. Visit an Active Shipyard on Puddle Dock! 12–5 For 250 years the gundalows plied our tidal waters, many docking at Strawbery Banke’s Puddledock. Join the Gundalow Company interpreters and try your hand at the construction of a replica of this traditional wooden sailing vessel. Story of a Bad Boy (Thomas Bailey Aldrich House) Visit the home of Tom Bailey, “a bad boy, well not a very bad boy, but a pretty bad boy” and hear all about it! Follow in the Footsteps of George Washington (Pitt Tavern) Stop by William Pitt Tavern, a Portsmouth public house that catered to famous American patriots like, John Hancock, Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington. THE STORES AT STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM Museum Store (Tyco Visitor Center) -- Showcasing unique local and regional, maritime & home decorating items in the Tyco Visitor’s Center. The Potters at Strawbery Banke -- Beautiful hand-thrown stoneware is made and sold at the pottery shop on Atkinson Street. FOOD Strawbery Banke Provisions Cart -- Sweet summer watermelon & bottled water. *All proceeds support museum programming Googies Sandwich Shoppe Voted best sandwich in Portsmouth! Dos Amigos Burritos Freshly-made chicken, steak, and bean burritos Lemieux Family Concessions Hot dogs, lobster rolls, chili, donuts, muffins Moore Lemonade Freshly-squeezed lemonade www.StrawberyBanke.org 603.433.1100
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