Our role is to be a community education resource. Our focus is on individual and familial learning experiences. We provide a place and situation by which children with their parents, guardians, or caregivers, as well as adults themselves, may acquire "how-to" and "hands-on" knowledge associated with rural Maine life at the turn of the 20th century. It is hoped that the knowledge garnered at this institution will ultimately be applicable to contemporary life serving to enrich, improve, and develop it with entertainments and skills more familar to previous generations. Through its extensive collection of 19th- and turn-of-the-century-20th-century farm and household material culture, our living history museum recreates the past while at the same time facilitates new situations by which tools, equipment, and structures awaken a new sense of self-sufficiency and independence amongst the public it serves. We are committed to not only developing educational programming that emphasizes the interactive and interpersonal but also tactile and kinesthetic learning modes for a variety of age groups.

A detailed description of our educational programming is soon to come, but, for the time being, you might check out our webpages devoted to our blacksmithing and metalcasting workshops.