We have been presenting this annual community event for over 50 years. Come and join your neighbors as we celebrate the return of summer. Live music, tours of our farmhouse and out buildings, demonstrations, animals, children’s games, food for purchase and our famous Strawberry Shortcake while supplies last.
Join us for living history demonstrations all weekend long. There will be tours of our beautiful grounds, farmhouse, ice house, school house, barn, blacksmith and equipment. Tactics and weapons demonstrations – muskets & cannon. Historic trades – camp cooking, period music & artifacts.
Free donation suggested
Brinckerhoff House Historic Site/Home of East Fishkill Historical Society
Our Site-Director Rick Soedler will be tapping our maple trees to make maple syrup. Feel free to stop by this day to learn how this late winter activity was first taught to us by our early indigenous neighbors.
Free
Brinckerhoff House Historic Site/Home of East Fishkill Historical Society
SOLD OUT – There is a waitlist – please contact Jan Bushey at 845-242-5794
Join us as we present 3 seatings of our popular holiday tea. Noon, 2pm, and 4pm. A beautiful selection of teas, finger sandwiches and desserts will be served at festively decorated tables.
$20 adults, $10 children under 13. Seating is limited.
All proceeds to benefit the David M. Bushey East Fishkill Historical Society scholarship fund.
Please join us as we welcome our neighbors, and help us celebrate the start of the holiday season. Hot mulled cider, eggnog and treats will be served in our traditionally decorated Dutch farmhouse. Colonial songstress Linda Russell will be entertaining us with holiday offerings. Santa will be stopping by with one of his reingoats for your holiday photos. A $5 donation would be greatly appreciated. We will once again be collecting canned goods to be donated to one of our local food pantries. The Brinckerhoff General Store will be open for your holiday shopping needs. Children’s crafts will be available in our one-room schoolhouse.
We have been presenting this annual community event for over 50 years. Come and join your neighbors as we celebrate the return of summer. Live music, tours of our farmhouse and out buildings, demonstrations, animals, children’s games, food for purchase and our famous Strawberry Shortcake while supplies last.
Free This is a free community event but donations are always appreciated.
April 27, 2024
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10:00 am
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April 30, 2024
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4:00 pm EDT
Join us for living history demonstrations all weekend long. There will be tours of our beautiful grounds, farmhouse, ice house, school house, barn, blacksmith and equipment. Tactics and weapons demonstrations – muskets & cannon. Historic trades – camp cooking, period music & artifacts
Cait Johnson is the author of six popular books of spiritual non-fiction, including Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging, Witch in the Kitchen, and Celebrating the Great Mother. She is a freelance editor, ghost-writer, and developmental editor, as well as a counselor and creative midwife, helping people to live their most authentic and joyful lives.
Cait is coming to Brinckerhoff House Historic Site as the first in our Author Series on Sunday, October 29 from 1:00 – 3:00ish.
As a Wise Woman herself, she will discuss the traditions of Wise Women, Healers, and Midwives of the Revolutionary Era in the Brinckerhoff House Schoolhouse.
Her fascinating lecture will be followed by an informal “Meet the Author” hour in the 1700’s kitchen of Brinckerhoff House where tea will be served alongside delicious treats from Cait’s cookbooks. $15 per person includes lecture and meet the author hour.
Reserve your space by purchasing tickets below:
$15.00 per person includes lecture and meet the author hour
Join us as we welcome our neighbors to help ring in the holiday season. The Brinckerhoff Farmhouse will be decorated in fine greenery for the start of the holiday season.
Santa and Randolph the Reingoat will be back for you and your family to take pictures with. A $5 donation for photos and a donation of canned goods that will go to the Fishkill Food Pantry would be greatly appreciated.
We will have children’s crafts in our one room schoolhouse. Mulled Cider and nibbles will be served in the farmhouse as well as Hot Chocolate and s’mores outdoors.
An overview of the past year and a sneak peak at what is ahead for 2024 and the future of the East Fishkill Historical Society. Opportunity to meet fellow members and find out how to get involved. Please plan to bring and share a dish in true pot luck fashion.
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