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Celebrate Mothers in May at The Updike Farmstead May 7, 2011

 The Historical Society of Princeton is Celebrating May!  Meet Me at the Farmstead on Saturday, May 7, 2011 to celebrate Mothers in May.  The Updike Farmstead will be open from 10:00am – 4:00pm, featuring a day of fun activities, including Mother’s Day crafts, musical performance by the Princeton Junior School Choir, a gardening workshop, the Maypole Dance, and chromatography flowers.  Children can make special Mother’s Day crafts, such as Victorian tussie-mussies, a coupon book, decorating historic photographs, and making wind chimes.  Children and adults can also help in a special project making origami to assist the Million Crane Project, a nationwide effort by Princeton and Stanford students to create a piece of memorial art in honor of Japanese tsunami victims.
 
The schedule of events:
10:00 – 11:30 am – “How Does Your Garden Grow?” Judith Robinson
11:00 am – performance by the Princeton Junior School Choir
12:00 pm, 2:00 pm – Sack Races
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Origami for the “Million Crane Project”
1:00 pm – Maypole Dancing
1:00 – 3:00 pm – Chromatography Flowers with scienceSeeds
3:00 pm – Counting Cranes
 

Cost:  $ 5/person (ages 3 or older)

         $ 8/2 people

         $10/3 people

         $15/4 people

         FREE – HSP Members


Location:  Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, NJ
Time:  10:00 am – 4:00 pm
For more information about our programs, please call 609.921.6748 x100 or visit us at www.princetonhistory.org <https://www.princetonhistory.org> .


ABOUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON - The Historical Society of Princeton, founded in 1938, is a museum and library dedicated to interpreting the history of Princeton, New Jersey.  The programs, lectures, exhibitions, and events of the Historical Society of Princeton are presented at our two facilities:  Bainbridge House and the Updike Farmstead.  The Farmstead includes a recently renovated late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse and 6 acres of land.  Visit us at princetonhistory.org.