October
Oct 1-31 Baltimore Free Fall. Many museums and events free for the month
Oct 1-31 Lexington Market 20th Annual Chocolate Festival. Baltimore MD
Oct 3-5 Fall Wine Festival & Sunset Tour. Mount Vernon VA
Oct 4 Snitz Fest. Hans Herr House. Lancaster PA
Oct 4 Newlin Grist Mill Harvest Fair. Baking without an Oven by Past Masters. Concord Township, PA
Oct 4 Apple Butter Frolic. Mennonite Heritage Center. Harleysville PA
Oct 4 Germantown Oktoberfest. Germantown MD
Oct 4-5 Heritage Days. Hower-Slote House. Turbotville PA
Oct 4 & 5 Always Time for Dessert. class. Gunston Hall. Mason's Neck VA
Oct 5 A Woman's Handiwork: Stitches in Time Greenspring VA
Oct 5 Bread and Honey. 2– 4. Colvin Run Mill VA
Oct 5 MAW's Seventh Annual Mushroom Fair. Visitor Center. Brookside Gardens Wheaton. MD
Oct 5 Open Hearth Cooking for Harvest Day. Washington Crossing PA
Oct 5 Bake Oven Class. Newlin Grist Mill. Glen Mills PA
Oct 11 Fall is for Apples at Green Spring Gardens. 11 VA
Oct 11 Russian Bazaar. St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral. Washington DC
Oct 11-12 Harvest Days. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster. PA
Oct 12 Favorite Foods & Libations of Presidential Families. Gloucester County Historical Society. Woodbury, NJ
Oct 12 Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. CHoW DC
Oct 12 Preserving the Harvest. Nelson House, Washington Crossing NJ
Oct 12 Annual Czech and Slovak Festival. Baltimore MD
Oct 15 Early Mills in Maryland. 7:30 Montpelier MD
Oct 17 Tie One On: Aprons in History 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Oct 17-19 Baltimore Russian Festival. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church. Baltimore MD
Oct 18 Flag House Baltimore MD
Oct 18 Colonial Foodways. National Colonial Farm. Accokeek MD
Oct 18 Laerenswaert Colonial Craft Fair. Peter Wentz Farmstead. Worcester. PA
Oct 18 18th Cen Market Fair. Claude Moore Colonial Farm. McLean. VA
Oct 18 Goods from the Hearth. Roger B. Taney House. Frederick MD
Oct 18 Schiele Museum hearth cooks demo at Westmoore Pottery. Seagrove NC
Oct 18-19 St. Mary's County Oyster Festival. Leonardtown MD
Oct 18-19 Fall Harvest Family Days Mount Vernon VA
Oct 18-19 Octoberfest at Schifferstadt. Frederick MD
Oct 19 Heritage Day. Daniel Boone Homestead . Birdsboro PA
Oct 19 Maryland stuffed ham & oyster dinner. St. George Catholic Church. Valley Lee. MD
Oct 19 An Introduction to Pompeii and the Roman Villa. 2pm [exhibit Oct 19–Mar 22] National Gallery of Art. DC
Oct 19 Hearth cooking demo. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville PA
Oct 22-23 Sour Beef Event. Zion Church of Baltimore. MD
Oct 23-25 Bread Festival Greenbank Mill. Willminton DE
Oct 24 Mom's Family Pie... Food Traditions of Appalachia. Peacock-Harper Culinary ... Friends. Roanoke VA
Oct 24-25 Grave Matters at St. Mary's City: Food, Drink, and a Death Watch
Oct 25 & 26 Open-Hearth Cooking Class. Gunston Hall. Mason Neck VA
Oct 25 The Harvest Season. 2:00 William Trent House. Trenton NJ
Oct 26 Maryland stuffed ham & oyster dinner. Sacred Heart Church. Bushwood MD
Oct 26 18th Century Field Day. Red Bank Battlefield, National Park, NJ
Oct 26 Beer Brewing and Cider Making. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville PA
Oct 26 Thomas Massey House Closing Day. Hearthcooking. Broomhall, PA.
Oct 30 Chocolate! 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
November
Nov 3 Entertainments and Diversions from the Past. History Lecture Day. Belair Mansion. Bowie MD
Nov 6 Refocusing on Regionalism and Imports in Virginia (Part 2) Symposium Gunston Hall. Mason Neck VA
Nov 6 Polish Cooking 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Nov 6 Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean... 1765-1825. 3-6 Library Company of Philadelphia PA
Nov 7 Markets and Morality 9-6:30 Library Company of Philadelphia PA
Nov 7-9 Maryland Irish Festival. Md State Fairgrounds. Timonium MD
Nov 8 Milling demo, 18th cen baking demo. Mill at Anselma, Chester Springs, PA
Nov 8 Maryland stuffed ham & oyster dinner. Trinity Episcopal Church. St. Mary's City MD
Nov 8 Apple and Scrapple Day. Peter Wentz Farmstead. Worcester. PA
Nov 9 Chef Walter Staib of City Tavern, Phila. demo open hearth cooking, 1-3 $50 Pomona Hall. Camden NJ
Nov 13 From Cannoli to Ravioli: Unlocking Your Culinary Legacy. Laura Schenone 7pm Woodbury Public Lib. NJ
Nov 15 Colonial Foodways. National Colonial Farm. Accokeek MD
Nov 15 Danish Bazaar. St. Elizabeth's Church. Rockville MD
Nov 16 In Shakespeare's Kitchen. Francine Segan. HFSDV Hessian Barracks. Trenton NJ
Nov 16 Andrew Smith, Hamburger: A Global History. 2:30 CHoW meeting. Bethesda MD
Nov 16 Cooking demo. Pennsbury Manor. Morrisville PA
Nov 18 Colonial Games. 7pm West County branch of Anne Arundel Public Library. Odenton MD
Nov 19 Graveyards in Maryland. by James Gibbs. 7:30 Montpelier Mansion. MD
Nov 20 Chesapeake Shakespeare Company 7:30 Howard County Center for the Arts. Ellicott City, MD
Nov 20 The Jersey Tomato: From Cherry to Beefsteak. 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Nov 20 Early American Beverage Tasting Series: Chocolate and Wine Tasting. Dunbarton House. DC
Nov 21 Theater of the Table: A Winterthur Study Day. 9-5 Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE
Nov 21 The New Jersey Cranberry. 12pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Nov 22 Cooking demos 1-5 Open House. Havre de Grace Maritime Museum and Steppingstone Museum. MD
Nov 23 Colonial Burlington Cookery. 2-4 Peachfield Plantation, Mt. Holly, NJ
Nov 24 Christmas Tour. Compass Inn. Laughlintown. PA
Nov 27-29 Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia. Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center. VA
Nov 28-29 Hearth & Home in Early Md. Historic St. Mary's City. MD
Nov 28-30 Crock, Stock and Barrel. Food preservation. Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia. VA
Nov 28-30 Mount Vernon by Candlelight Mount Vernon VA
Nov 29-30 Nancy Carter Crump, Book Signing. Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Forest VA
Nov 30 Christmas Potpourri. Graeme Park. Horsham. PA
December
Dec 4 The Americanization of Coffee. 3:30-5:30 Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE
Dec 4 Curds and Whey. 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Dec 5-7 Country Christmas Village. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Dec 5 How to Homebrew. 7pm Woodbury Public Library NJ
Dec 5-7 Mount Vernon by Candlelight Mount Vernon VA
Dec 6 Holiday Open House and book signing by Nancy Carter Crump. Westmoore Pottery. Seagrove NC
Dec 6 Scottish Christmas Walk. Alexandria VA
Dec 6 Colonial Candymaking. 2-4 William Trent House. Trenton NJ
Dec 6-7 Yuletide Manor with Colonial kitchen. Mount Harmon Plantation. Earleville MD
Dec 7 Holiday Open House and German colonial cooking. Historic Rittenhouse Town. Phila. PA
Dec 7 Historic Hearth Cooked Meal. Pomona Hall, Camden NJ
Dec 7 Dutch holiday traditions cooking demo 1-4 Bouman-Stickney Homestead. Stanton, NJ
Dec 12 Holiday at Landis Valley: A Pa. Dutch Christmas 6pm-8:30 Lancaster PA
Dec 12-14 Country Christmas Village. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Dec 12-14 Mount Vernon by Candlelight Mount Vernon VA
Dec 13 Museums by Candlelight 2-7 Frederick MD
Dec 13 Taste of the Past. food samples Belair Mansion. Bowie MD
Dec 14 Festive Food...panel on celebratory and symbolic foods from around the world. CHoW DC
Dec 14 Wassail. Claude Moore Colonial Farm. McLean. VA
Dec 14 Hearth Cooking. 10-4 Dress Rehearsal for the Crossing. Washington Crossing PA
Dec 17 Serving Suppers: Domestic Roles of 19th Century Irish Immigrant Women. 7pm Morris County Library. NJ
Dec19 Candle light Tour and Doughnuts. Johnson-Ferry House, Washington Crossing NJ
Dec 20 Colonial Foodways. National Colonial Farm. Accokeek MD
Dec 26-28 Country Christmas Village. Landis Valley Museum. Lancaster PA
Exhibits
thru November. "100 Years in the Kitchen: Selling Women the American Dream" Advertising exhibit. Culinary Institute of America . Hyde Park NY
Nov 1 - Feb 1 Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table (1500-2005) Winterthur Museum. Wilmington DE
thru Jan 2009. " The President's Table: American Presidential China" Mount Vernon . VA
thru March 2009. The New Jersey Council for the Humanities is hosting the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, "Key Ingredients: America by Food."
Tuckerton Seaport, Tuckerton [Sept 6 - Oct 19, 2008]
Woodbury Public Library, Woodbury [Oct 25 - Dec 7, 2008]
Morris County Historical Society, Whippany [Dec 1, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009]
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton [Jan 31 - Mar 15 2009]