Our Detective Tours, special investigative tours of the Log House at Craftsman Farms, are being offered on Wednesday afternoons through August 25, from 1:00 – 2:15 pm. This tour, for children aged 6-9 accompanied by an adult, is a great way to introduce children to Craftsman Farms. Using photo clues and flashlights, the tour explores life in the Log House when the Stickley family was in residence 100 years ago.  No registration is necessary. Just drop by with your young detective, and our guides will lead the investigation.

Free to Members and Member Children.

$5 Non Member Children and $7 Non Member Adults.

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Twilight at the Log House Tour
Saturday, Aug. 8 at 7:30 p.m.
$10 Members, $12 Non-Members

On Saturday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m., the immensely popular Twilight at the Log House Tour will return with Pete Mars once again expertly leading the way. This special tour will address design features of the Log House that are most visible in the early evening summer light.  In addition, Mars imagines life at Craftsman Farms for the Stickley family and for families in early 1900s America as the day was winding down, with a particularly fascinating look at the development of electricity.
 
Light refreshments will be served at both events. As only 25 spots are available for each tour, advance ticket purchases are strongly recommended. For tickets or info call 973-540-0311 or email education@stickleymuseum.org.

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Full & Half-Day Camps for Ages 6 – 9
August 3 – 7 and August 10 – 14

Summer Camp at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms features creative, hands-on, low-tech activities exploring crafts, nature, history, and more. For children age 6 – 9, camps offer old-fashioned fun designed to spark imaginations plus flexible full or half-day options; in-and-outdoor activities (as weather permits) in a beautiful park-like setting; small enrollment; and experienced, professional adult instructors. To download the registration form, click here. For more information, call 973-540-011 or email info@stickleymuseum.org.

Summer Camp

August 3 – 7 and August 10 – 14
Morning Camp: 9:00 a.m. – 12 noon
Optional Supervised Lunch Hour (lunch not provided): 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Camp: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Fees:

$145 for Member Children
$170 for Non Member Children
Optional Supervised Lunch Hour (lunch not provided): $10

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We are pleased to share this wonderful opportunity with our readers. The RSVP deadline is April 1, so you will need to act quickly. You are invited to join Ted Bosley, Director of The Gamble House in Pasadena, California, for an architectural study tour exploring the Arts and Crafts movement in upstate New York during its most beautiful season! The fabulous, week-long experience entitled “Little Journeys to Roycrofters, Rustic Camps, and Buffalo,” will take place September 10-17, 2009.

Tour participants will visit East Aurora, home of the Roycrofters, as well as nearby Buffalo, where Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin house, among other architectural gems, has been lovingly restored. Next stop is Lake Placid and other towns in the Adirondack Park for visits to the rustic “camps” that were turn-of-the-century resort homes of the wealthy.

A few spaces are still available and so we are pleased to share the news that the Gamble House has opened this exclusive tour to a wider family of friends like you, as long as space remains. The deadline for booking this tour is April 1, and it is limited to 24 participants.

Would you like to join the group? If so, now is the time to call Bobbi Mapstone at 626 395-9783 or e-mail her at mapstone@usc.edu. You will need to follow up with a deposit of $400 per person, with balance due August 1. Cost of tour: $2840 per person single occupancy; $410 per person single supplement. $200 is a tax deductible donation to the Gamble House. For more information, please visit their website at GambleHouse.org.

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Mark E. Weaver will be speaking on Mount Desert Island Maine: The Arts & Crafts Influence.” at our members’ reception on Saturday, September 13.

Trombonist Mark E. Weaver is the youngest son of listed American artist Robert Edward Weaver. Born in Peru, Indiana, Weaver received his formal musical education at the Indiana University School of Music as a recipient of the Cole Porter Music scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of music degree in trombone performance in 1979. Weaver is also an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA, and the Stetson Summer Orchestral Music Institute in Deland, FL.

Weaver is the principal trombonist of The United States Coast Guard Band, and has toured extensively with band across the United States, and has performed in Russia, and the United Kingdom. In addition, Weaver is second trombonist of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the New York Pops, Boston Festival Orchestra, Springfield (Massachusetts) Symphony, Bridgeport Symphony, The Connecticut Virtuosi, and Salt Marsh Opera Company. Over his career, Weaver has performed with such esteemed conductors as Leonard Berstein, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, and Lawrence Leighton Smith.  Weaver has performed on National Public Radio, NBC’s Today Show, and the Cable News Network (CNN)and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He is a former adjunct professor of trombone at the University of Rhode Island.

When not performing music, Weaver continues to nurture his interest in art, antiques, and architecture. His special interest in the American Arts and Crafts Movement began in 1995 when he bought his first piece of L & JG Stickley furniture. Since then, Weaver has become an avid student of the movement, concentrating on the work of the metalsmiths of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston. In recent years he has contributed several articles to Style 1900 magazine and was a small discussion group leader with colleague Rosalie Berberian on the subject of Arts and Crafts silver at the 2008 Grove Park Inn Arts and Crafts Conference in Asheville, NC. Weaver’s most recent article for Style1900 appears in the August 2008 issue. Weaver is a regular attendee of the Salve Regina University Conference for Historic Preservation in Newport, Rhode Island, and is a member of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Florence Griswold Museum, and serves as a trustee of the Craftsman Farms Foundation.

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Low-tech, hands-on, old-fashioned fun awaits children age 6 – 9 enrolled in our Stickley Kids Day Camps. Led by experienced, professional, adult instructors, the morning day camps (9:00 a.m. – 12 noon) will include indoor and outdoor activities (as weather permits) taking full advantage of Craftsman Farms’ beautiful park-like setting.

Historic stories from The Farms will kick off each day. The week of August 4 – 8 is planned for HandCrafters, who will make a clay tile, marbleize paper, paint with watercolors, and more. In Builders Camp, the week of August 11 – 15, campers activities include making handkerchief parachuters, mini-sailboats, and a small model house. Both camps will feature their projects in an exhibition for family and friends on Friday.

HandCrafters Camp: August 4 – 8

Builders Camp: August 11 – 15

Member Tuition: $160 and Non-Member children: $180

Advance registration is required. Click here for Registration Form.

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