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_Pumpkin Festival: Cogswell's Grant
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| Dates: | Saturday, October 17, 2009 |
| Hours: | 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | $$ see below |
| Category: | Seasonal Fun |
Choose your jack-o-lantern from our pumpkin patch and enjoy hot mulled apple cider and homemade pumpkin pie. The historic house will also be open for tours of one of the country's most celebrated collections of American antiques and folk art.
About Cogswell Grant:
Cogswell's Grant was the summer home of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, preeminent collectors of American decorative arts in the mid 20th century. Through her research and innumerable publications, Mrs. Little chartered new areas of American folk art (which she preferred to call 'country arts'), such as decorative painting, floor coverings, boxes, and New England pottery.
In 1937, the Littles purchased this 18th-century farmhouse overlooking the Essex River as a family retreat and place to entertain. They restored it carefully, trying to preserve original 18th-century finishes and carefully documenting their work. In more than 50 years of collecting, they sought works of strong, even quirky character, and in particular favored objects with their original finishes and New England histories. They decorated the house for visual delight rather than histories accuracy. The result is rich in atmosphere and crowded with collections of things - that have since come to define the country look.
| COST | ↑ top |
$6 adults, $4 children, free to members of Historic New England
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.historicnewengland.org/things/calendar/Events.asp?State=MA
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
60 Spring Street, Essex, MA map
Phone: 978-768-3632
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