Middleborough Heritage Festival

On Saturday, November 14, the Middleborough Historical Association will sponsor the Middleborough Heritage Festival from 10 am through 4 pm at historic Middleborough Town Hall in celebration of Middleborough's 34oth anniversary. The Festival will include a host of events, craft demonstrations, re-enactments and other activities, as well as displays of historical information presented by local organizations. Children's activities will also be featured and families are encouraged to attend what promises to be a fun, educational (and inexpensive) day out.

Scheduled Events

10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Quilt Documentation
Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project
Appointment required

10:00 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Children's Activities:
Crafts with Soule Homestead Education Center
Face painting by Art on the Spot
Games by the Middleborough Historical Association

10:00 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Images of America: Middleborough
Book signing with author Michael J. Maddigan

10:05 a.m.
Soule Farm Expansion Plan
Presentation with Executive Director Frank Albani

10:30 a.m.
Dialogue with Judge Peter Oliver
Performance by re-enactor Michael Lepage

11:00 a.m.
Historic Preservation Awards
Presentation by Jane Lopes, Middleborough Historical Commission, Chair

11:30 a.m.
“What Did the Colonial People Wear?”
Historic textile talk by Hallie Larkin, Southcoast Historical Associates

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Images of America: Middleborough
Book signing with author Michael J. Maddigan

12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Children’s Activities continue
Face Painting by Art on the Spot
Games by the Middleborough Historical Association

12:30 p.m.
Quarterly Meeting
Middleborough Historical Association

1:00 p.m.
Rock Village Publishing
Discussion with author Yolanda Lodi

1:00 p.m.
“How to Research Practically Anything”
Panel discussion

2:00 p.m.
“Petticoat Patriot, Deborah Sampson”
Performance by Joan Gatturna

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Images of America: Middleborough
Book signing with author Michael J. Maddigan

3:00 p.m.
“Meet Mrs. Tom Thumb”
Illustrated talk by Gladys Beals and Dorothy Thayer, Middleborough Historical Association

3:30 p.m.
340th Anniversary Cake
Cake cutting ceremony

4:00 p.m.
Festival ends

Participants

Participants include American Legion, Cabot Club, Church of Our Saviour, Committee for Preservation of Thompson Street, Eddy Homestead, First Congregational Church of Middleborough, Future of Middleborough Trust, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Green School Preservation Committee, Lakeville Historical Commission, Lakeville Historical Society, Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project, Middleborough Historical Association, Middleborough Historical Commission, Middleborough on the Move, Middleborough Public Library, Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Old Colony Historical Society, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Recollecting Nemasket, Robbins Museum of Archaeology, Soule Homestead Education Center, St. Andrew’s Church and Weston Memorial Forest.

Participating craftspeople and individuals include Mary Guidaboni (braided rugs), Dean and Laurie Rantz (blacksmithing and colonial spinning), Spinners with Soul, Harlow House Spinners, Jeff Stevens (gravestones & cemeteries), Country Piecemakers, Trish Holloway (artist), Yolanda Lodi of Rock Village Publishing (author) and Kara Andrews of Art on the Spot.

Refreshments are available for purchase all day with hot dogs available from 12 noon – 2 p.m. All proceeds from the refreshments benefit Middleborough Historical Association and the Soule Homestead Education Center, two local non-profit organizations.