Jan 9 Sat Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation, Artistry, and Timeless Beauty. 1 to 5 p.m. Smithsonian at DAR DC
Jan 23 The Lyceum Museum's Food History Symposium. Alexandria VA
Feb 12-14 Bake oven and hearth cooking class with Tom Martin. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Feb 13-15 Roger Smith Food Writers Conference. NYC
Feb 13 Hutspot at the Smorgasbord Dutch and Swedish hearth cookingclass. Read House. New Castle DE
Feb 18 "The Great Migration & Southern Cooking in New York City" 6:30pm Museum of the City of New York
Feb 19-20 The Master Docent Series Workshops. Frederick MD
Feb 20 Eating the Enlightenment: European Dining in the 18th Century. Ivan Day. The Detroit Institute of Arts MI
Feb 27 Third Annual Foodways Symposium. Meat for the use of the table. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville, PA
Feb 27 Celebrating FOOD! Les Dames. Rockville MD
Mar 2 Proprietors, Patrons, & Peons: Women's Roles in Public House. 10:00 Historic London Town. Edgewater MD
Mar 2 Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart [Martha Washington's dau-inlaw] 7:30 Riversdale. MD
Mar 4 Motherhood, children, and childhood in the 18th cen. Nancy Webster 9-12 Ephrata Cloister. Ephrata PA
Mar 8 Penn Charter Day. Many Pa Historical and Museum Commission’s historical sites are free [call sites]
Mar 13 HFSDV Greenbank Mills. Wilmington DE
Mar 13 Hutspot at the Smorgasbord Dutch and Swedish hearth cooking class. Read House. New Castle DE
Mar 13,14,20,21 Maple Syrup Making Demo. 10-2 Cunningham Falls State Park. Thurmont MD
Mar 18 Packaging in 18th cen Deb Peterson; Inventories Clarissa Dillon. 9-12 Ephrata Cloister. Ephrata PA
Mar 20-21 Maryland Day. many museums open for free
Mar 26-27 Women and Humanities. Mary Baldwin College Staunton, VA
Apr 10 Bell & History Days. Frederick MD
Apr 11-17 Hearth cooking class with Kay Moss at Campbell Folk School. Brasstown, NC
Apr 15 Inventing the Cold Chain: Tech and Marketing in the 19 cen American Natural Ice Industry 6pm Hagley DE
Apr 15-16 Ceramics Conference: Success to America. Winterthur. DE
Apr 17 Hearth Cooking class. Clarissa. Setting a curd and starting a soft cheese. Hope Lodge, PA 610-642-4269
Apr 22-25 18th Century Market Fair. Fort Frederick. Big Pool MD 301-842-2155
Apr 24 Paul Revere and Beyond: Understanding 18th-Century New England Silver. Historic Deerfield, Mass
Exhibits
thru Jan "Food for Thought" Museum of Early Trades & Crafts . Madison. NJ
thru Jan "What's Cooking: A display of Kitchen Tools & Accessories." East Brunswick Museum . East Brunswick. NJ
to Feb "'Domestic Beings': Keeping a House, Making a Home." Pottsgrove Manor . Pottstown PA
to Mar 21 Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44. Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York City.
to Mar 31 On the Road: Travel and Transportation in Early Maryland. Homewood. Baltimore MD
to May 30 Sèvres Then and Now: Tradition & Innovation in Porcelain, 1750-2000. Hillwood Museum and Gardens . Washington DC
to June "Fran, Have You Supplied the Table? Foods, Service & Etiquette in the Federal Era" at the Dumbarton House . Washington, D.C.
to Aug 15 Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England at the National Building Museum . Washington, D.C.
October
Oct 1-31 Free Fall Baltimore MD
Oct 3 Germantown Oktoberfest. Germantown MD
Oct 3-4 Squirrel tail bake oven class. Dill's Tavern. Dillsburg. PA
Oct 3 Baking Without An Oven. Harvest Day, Newlin Grist Mill. Concordville. PA
Oct 3 War of 1812 symposium. Flag House. Baltimore MD
Oct 6 Tues. lecture TBA Noon Belair Mansion. Bowie MD
Oct 8 lecture Sandy Spring museum. MD
Oct 8-10 All Things Culinary Around the World in 1849 and Their Convergence Upon California. Lodi, CA
Oct 10-11 Harvest Days. Sat Sun 11-5 Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Oct 10 Historic Fallsington Day. Pit Cooking by Past Masters. Historic Fallsington. Levittown, PA
Oct 10 Laerenswaert Colonial Craft Fair. Peter Wentz Farmstead. Worcester. PA
Oct 10 Comfort and Convenience Tour 9-10:30 Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, NH
Oct 10-11 Colonial Craftsmen Weekend and RedCoats. Jerusalem Mill MD
Oct 13 "Tears and Laughter: Philip Freneau Reads his Works" - Dr. Jack Gardner 7:30 Belair Mansion. Bowie MD
Oct 14 Finger Bowl or Wine Rinser? Wed 12:30-1:15 Dumbarton House. DC
Oct 14 Good Eats: A Look Back with Alton Brown. 7pm Natural History Museum. DC
Oct 16-18 Baltimore Russian Festival. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church. Baltimore MD
Oct 17 free fall. Flag House. Baltimore MD
Oct 17-18 Autumn 18th Cen Market Fair Claude Moore Colonial Farm. McLean, VA
Oct 17-18 Russian Bazaar. St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral. Washington DC
Oct 17 Colonial Foodways. National Colonial Farm. Accokeek MD
Oct 18 Harvest Day at Washington Crossing Historic Park. PA
Oct 18 Hearth Cooking. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville. PA
Oct 20 Cooking class Westminster MD .......... NOTE: my hearth cooking class is full
Oct 21 Chocolate talk. Montpelier Museum. Laurel MD .......... NOTE: my talk is full
Oct 24 Culinary History Day conference. Enfield Shaker Museum. Enfield NH
Oct 24 Beef: From Plains to Plate: Follow the Cattlemen’s Trail to Savory Midwest Beef Traditions. Chicago
Oct 24 Goods from the Hearth 10-4 Roger B. Taney House. Frederick MD
Oct 25 Cider Making & Smoking Meats. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville. PA
Oct 25 Bespoke, Ordered and Bought. Stocking the larder. 1 & 2:30 Pottsgrove Manor. Pottstown PA
Oct 28-29 Sour Beef Event. Zion Church of Baltimore. MD
Oct 30 Scraping by...labor... early Baltimore. conference 2-6 Library of Philadelphia PA
Oct 31 Historic House Kitchens Symposium 9:30-4 Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, and Coffin House, Newbury, MA
November
Nov 2 Mon. Belair House. History Day Symposium $60 MD
Nov 5 Building Gunston Hall: The Confluence of Architecture and the Decorative Arts $95 VA
Nov 7 Profit, Industry, and Slavery in Early Quaker Migration talk 11 am. Sandy Spring MD
Nov 8-10 Colonial Foodways Symposium, Williamsburg VA
Nov 8 Milling demo & baking demo. The Mill at Anselma. Chester Springs. PA
Nov 8 Creating culinary exhibits for museums CHOW DC
Nov 10 Moravian Holiday Traditions 7pm Peter Wentz Farmstead. Worcester. PA
Nov 13-15 Maryland Irish Festival. Md State Fairgrounds. Timonium MD
Nov 14 Danish Bazaar. [Danish open sandwiches] St. Elizabeth's Church. Rockville MD
Nov 14 Baking without an Oven. The Mill at Anselma. Chester Springs. PA
Nov 14 'Christmas in Pa' booksigning. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Nov 15 The Bake Oven. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville. PA
Nov 15 HFSDV Annual Meeting. Andy Smith. Barthram's Garden. PA
Nov 18 Country Dances of the 18th and 19th Century. 7:30 Montpelier Museum. Laurel MD
Nov 19 'Placing Revolutionary Sandy Spring in a Mid-Atlantic Context' 6:30 Sandy Spring MD
Nov 19–21 The Early Chesapeake: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward. St Mary's City MD
Nov 20-21 York Postcard Expo. York PA
Nov 21 Savory Stories of Essential Italian Foods. 9:30-4 Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Ken Albala. Hotel Palomar. DC
Nov 21 Chew the Fat Claude Moore Colonial Farm. McLean, VA
Nov 21 Colonial Foodways. National Colonial Farm. Accokeek MD
Nov 27-28 Hearth and Home in Early Maryland. Historic St. Mary's City MD