October 2018
Island Farm Pumpkin Patch
Island Farm Pumpkin Patch, Island Farm, Manteo Come to the farm and take a hay ride to the farm's pumpkin patch and find your perfect pumpkin to take home. Admission is $8; children ages 5 and under are free. Take home a pumpkin for an additional $5. Other activities included make your own corn husk doll, candle making, children's 19th-century toys and games, stuff a scarecrow, scarecrow photo booth for taking your own photos, and interacting with the farms animals.…
Find out more »November 2018
Evening Lantern Tours: Draped in Black; Victorian Death Rituals
Join costumed interpreters on a night-time tour into the home of a grieving widow. Experience unique and peculiar ways Victorian families mourned the loss of a loved one. Listen to stories of the farm’s former residents and travel by lantern light to their final resting place in the family graveyard.
Find out more »Garden to Hearth: Heritage Cooking & Food Preservation
Garden to Hearth: Heritage Cooking and Food Preservation, Island Farm, Manteo 10am-4pm Looking for something to do with the family after Thanksgiving? Come to Island Farm as we interpret fall food traditions and share how Roanoke Island families prepared for winter during the 1850s. Activities may include hearth cooking, food preservation, candle making and ox-drawn wagon rides from 10am - noon. Bring a nonperishable food item and receive $1 off the standard admission. Goods will be donated to the Roanoke…
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