Upcoming Events 2009
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1770s Festival
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Lord Stirling Park, Basking Ridge, NJ
The KMS Farmstead will have a booth there, please stop by!
Colonial history lives at the Somerset County Park Commission’s annual 1770s Festival when Lord Stirling’s grand manor house and estate come to life in Lord Stirling Park in Basking Ridge, NJ. Colonial craftspeople ply their trades and a Revolutionary War military detachment camp on the former estate lawns and conduct maneuvers. The event promotes historical and environmental education by familiarizing people with the rich local history of Basking Ridge, highlighting an unsung Revolutionary War hero, demonstrating the colonial heritage of New Jersey, and recreating a typical autumn afternoon in 1770.
In 2006, the Lord Stirling 1770s Festival won the Cultural and History Commission of Somerset County History Award for Education. Period re-enactors attired in replicas of 1770s clothing participate in the festival demonstrating their trades and crafts (no crafts are sold). These crafts people make articles such as buttons, rifles, brooms, furniture, lace, stained glass, redware pottery, and powder horns. Other trades and crafts include a blacksmith, tinsmith, wool spinning, decoy carving, and colonial herbs. Children of all ages enjoy the hayrides, clay crafts using Stirling clay, stenciling, and toy making. Visitors may try on colonial costumes and have their photograph taken while restrained to the Somerset Gaoler’s wooden stock.
$4 per person suggested donation
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Somerset County Weekend Journey Through the Past.
October 11 & 12, 2009 - Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 12 to 5 p.m.
Come Join us for a open house at the KMS Artscenter
Free tours of historic sites throughout Somerset County (locations may vary each year). Sponsored by the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission.
908-231-7110
This year the Farmstead will offer a number of free, family friendly activities during the Weekend Journey Through The Past.
- Plum Run String Band: Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 2pm. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy a free concert of traditional colonial, folk, Civil War and country fiddle music.
- Display of artifacts from the site of the Lord Stirling Manor excavation.
- Presentation on the proposed adaptive arts-related uses of the property.
- Farmstead Art Creations: children can create their own work of Farmstead art.
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Charter Day – Bernards Township
Bernards Township’s 15th Annual Charter Day Festival promises to be a fun and festive day with food, games, rides for the kids, local vendors, displays, service groups and reminders of history all joined together at this annual street fair and festival.
Saturday, May 17, 2009, center of Basking Ridge, South Finley Avenue.
Starts at 11:00am.
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