Arts & Entertainment
Buy Discounted Tickets Online for Sheep-to-Shawl Festival
Purchasing tickets in advance at Historic Hudson Valley's website saves $2 per ticket.
Planning to attend the Philipsburg Manor’s Sheep-to-Shawl Festival on April 18-19, 2015? Save money by buying your tickets online. The hours for this event are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
If purchased in advance online, admission costs $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $8 for children ages 3 to 17. Historic Hudson Valley members and children under 3 attend free. Onsite prices are $2 more per ticket. Go to www.hudsonvalley.org. to purchase tickets online.
At this event, Scottish border collies will not only herd sheep, they will also corral ducks.
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The sheep will be shorn by hand just as they were in the 18th century and costumed interpreters will demonstrate wool dyeing, spinning, and weaving, and lead special hands-on activities for children.
Exhibits and programs
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A new feature of this annual event is called “The Art of the Reproduction — Recreating Period Textiles.”
This part of the program covers the skills, talents, techniques, and materials needed to reproduce period textiles. It also examines the use of these techniques as modern hobbies, looks at their historical value as vital commercial skills, and covers how they played an important part in the educational training of women in the 18th century.
A fashion show presents 18th-century outfits — both high-style and working-class — and includes critiques by HHV’s expert costume designer. A lunch menu includes Shepard’s Pie, veggie chili, and homemade ice cream.
An interactive exhibit in the site’s Manor House is called “Wearable Wealth: The Value of Cloth and Clothing in the 18th Century.” There will also be special photo opportunities for children.
The lunch menu includes Shepherd’s Pie, veggie chili and homemade ice cream.
Philipsburg Manor includes a working water-powered gristmill and new world Dutch barn; it was home to enslaved individuals who labored there in the mid 18th century.
Philipsburg Manor is owned and operated by Historic Hudson Valley and is at 381 North Broadway (Route 9) in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., two miles north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. For information, call 914-366-6900 or go to www.hudsonvalley.org.
