OUTDOORS + FAMILY-FRIENDLY
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OUTDOORS + FAMILY-FRIENDLY .
GREAT FOR AGES + FAMILIES
This is a free event! Enjoy learning and shop the farm store.
Join Dr. Kimberly Alexander, Director of the Museum Studies program at UNH, and History Department graduate students for a hands-on-history demonstration. Watch as they process flax in preparation for spinning into linen thread and yarn and try your skill at braking, scutching and combing flax, while learning about the importance of growing flax and processing linen in New Hampshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Join in the conversation about sustainability, fast fashion and circular design models, gendered workspaces, and community agricultural events and seasonal celebrations.
🌱 All are welcome
📍 Held at Vernon Family Farm
This activity take place during our Meat Box Weekend! Shop the farm store and talk to the farmers about our monthly meat box subscription.
About the Instructor
Dr. Kimberly Alexander is on the faculty of the History Department at the University of New Hampshire, where she is Director of Museum Studies and Senior Lecturer. Alexander is currently a James Hayes Research Fellow for 2023-2025, awarded by the UNH Center for the Humanities. She has held curatorial positions at several New England museums, including the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum and Strawbery Banke. Her most recent books areTreasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), which won an Honor Award from Historic New England in 2019 and Fashioning the New England Family (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2021).
Treasures A Foot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era
Fashioning the New England Family
Information for the flax project
Instagram: @UNH_flaxfiles
