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Harriton Farmstead Fair
The Harriton Association invites you to join your friends and neighbors for the 34th annual Farmstead Fair. The Farmstead Fair is a day-long celebration featuring engaging activities such as children’s games, living history interpreters, craft vendors, live bluegrass music, farm animals, free tours of historic Harriton House and the highly anticipated Attic Treasures Sale. All proceeds benefit The Harriton Association and their work to preserve and interpret historic Harriton House.
The Farmstead Fair brings together dedicated volunteers, living history interpreters, and talented craftspeople for a day of old-fashioned fun. Fairgoers can visit with living historians to learn about everyday life in the 18th and 19th centuries from Revolutionary War soldier and civilian reenactors. Plying their crafts will be a carpenter, printer, spinners, and women demonstrating embroidery and bobbin lace. There will also be a team of cooks working Harriton's c. 1789 kitchen to prepare a meal for the living history volunteers. Children will enjoy games, meeting the farm animals, and a puppet show. Fairgoers of all ages may try Colonial-era games such as rolling hoops, graces, ten-pins, shut-the-box, and jump rope. Craft vendors will have for sale a variety of items including hand-made soaps, pressed flower cards, origami creations, journals, sterling silver jewelry, and pottery. A special highlight of the Fair is the Attic Treasures Sale featuring a variety of decorative items, furniture, and household goods donated to the Association throughout the year.
