Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Create a handwoven wool scarf on a prepared four-shaft floor loom. Explore color combinations and weaving patterns with guidance from Strawbery Banke’s experienced weavers.|

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Create a handwoven wool scarf on a prepared four-shaft floor loom. Explore color combinations and weaving patterns with guidance from Strawbery Banke’s experienced weavers.|

As part of the Revolutionary Portsmouth Lecture Series, a partnership between Portsmouth Historical Society and Strawbery Banke Museum, John Herman offers a closer look at Wentworth Cheswill, a pioneering and often overlooked figure in early American history.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Create a handwoven wool scarf on a prepared four-shaft floor loom. Explore color combinations and weaving patterns with guidance from Strawbery Banke’s experienced weavers.|

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Create a handwoven wool scarf on a prepared four-shaft floor loom. Explore color combinations and weaving patterns with guidance from Strawbery Banke’s experienced weavers.|

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Explore three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions during this 90-minute guided tour through four historic houses. Learn how the holiday was experienced in 1777, 1870, 1919, and 1943, and discover how Thanksgiving traditions evolved over time.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Take a walk through 150 years of winter celebrations in New England. Hear about the importance of New Year’s Day while exploring a hands-on exhibit and making a gift to take home. Visit an elaborately decorated Victorian home. Learn about Hanukkah in the early 20th century and other winter celebrations around the world.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Tour decorated historic houses and wander the candlelit streets of Strawbery Banke during Candlelight Stroll. This year’s 250th theme, “Welcome, Neighbor,” celebrates the community that has shaped the Puddle Dock neighborhood for generations.

Learn how to prepare and dress a four-shaft floor loom during this four-week workshop. Experiment with colors and patterns while creating a two-yard cotton sampler.

Discover how fiber becomes yarn using a traditional drop spindle. Practice drafting fiber and controlling thickness and twist, then take home your spindle and hand-spun yarn.

Cozy up by the hearth for a morning of cooking. Using 18th-century reproduction equipment and historical recipes, students will help prepare a seasonal meal.

Combine science and history to discover how people survived the perils of the past. Explore how theories about disease have changed over time. Investigate the natural disaster that caused the deadly “Year Without a Summer.”

Build on your knitting skills while creating a classic watch cap. Practice pattern reading, shaping, seaming, increases, decreases, and finishing techniques.

Learn foundational basket-making techniques while creating a bread basket with a solid wooden base. The finished basket is ideal for bread, linens, or household storage.

Explore traditional rug braiding while creating a practical mug rug. Learn how to braid, shape, join, and finish fabric strips by hand.

Discover how fiber becomes yarn using a traditional drop spindle. Practice drafting fiber and controlling thickness and twist, then take home your spindle and hand-spun yarn.

Learn foundational basket-making techniques while creating a bread basket with a solid wooden base. The finished basket is ideal for bread, linens, or household storage.

Learn the traditional craft of basket making from Strawbery Banke Museum’s knowledgeable instructors. Participants will create a Victorian basket to take home.

Begin a Fox and Geese mitten inspired by an 18th-century game board. Learn to read a colorwork chart, manage multiple yarns, and shape a mitten in the round.

Create a handwoven hanging basket designed to organize mail, papers, or notes. Learn foundational weaving techniques while working with traditional basketry tools and materials.

Discover how cloth was made before factories. Students will learn how a loom works and practice weaving different designs.

Learn how to prepare and dress a four-shaft floor loom while transforming repurposed fabric into a one-of-a-kind woven textile.

Explore traditional handwriting techniques from the era of the American Revolution. Cut a quill pen, practice with historically appropriate ink, and create a framed piece of penwork.

Learn foundational crochet techniques while creating a wool granny square hot pad inspired by a textile in the Pridham House kitchen.

Welcome spring while creating a handwoven basket designed to hang from a wall or doorknob. Learn foundational basketry techniques and take home a completed piece.

Discover how fiber becomes yarn using a traditional spinning wheel. Practice drafting fiber and controlling thickness and twist with guidance from a Museum instructor.

All the world’s a stage in this full-day workshop! Discover how museum theater brings the past to life. Students will practice improvisation and acting techniques, dress in costume, explore reproduction toys and tools, and use historical research to portray a person from another time.