FREEPORT — Freeport Community Library will present “Peddling Your Wares: A Look at Itinerant Merchants in Early 19th Century New England” along with a rum tasting on Sunday, March 10, at 1:30 p.m.
Tom Kelleher, curator of Historic Trades, Mills, and Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village, created this fascinating first-person “visit” where participants will learn how a wide variety of goods reached settlements and where an exchange of news might be considered more important than a yard of imported cloth, a news relies said.
A brief Q&A session will be followed by a rum tasting of Eight Bells, a light rum produced by New England Distilleries. Rum was sold in local general goods stores during the 19th century. Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen & Topside Tavern will pour at this event.
Kelleher has primary responsibility for the Old Sturbridge Village collections and exhibitions, particularly of antique tools, machinery, mills, firearms and vehicles. He develops collections-based exhibits and programs, and conducts research into these areas of material culture. In addition, he has primary responsibility for training costumed staff in social history, material culture and interpretive techniques.
Tickets to the presentation are $5 at the door.
For more information, call 865-3170 or visit www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org.
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