East Hampton Farm Museum To Open Next Saturday

Residents of East Hampton will be taken back to life at a farm in the 1900s at the new East Hampton Farm Museum.

On Saturday, Oct. 11, the museum will host its grand opening at the old Barnes-Lester farmhouse which sits on the Dominy “Mill Lot” on the corner of Cedar and North Main Streets in East Hampton.

On opening day, guests can plant organic garlic and will be provided with cider and donuts.

“[Guests] will be enjoying each other’s company with music,” according to Prudence Carabine, an East Hampton resident who led the effort to create the museum.

The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday until the second week in December when the museum will close for the winter and reopen in April.

The house will be set up as a 1900 farm house and allow guests to see what life was like back then.

Carabine is still looking to receive donations of clothing, old shirts, silverware from 1900s, pieces of furniture old instruments and books for the museum. In addition, she is looking for volunteer docents for the museum.

Anyone who would like to donate or volunteer can call Prudence Carabine at (631) 324-3892.

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