2008-2009 Building Momentum - Old Sturbridge Village

Where does our food come from?
How has farming and eating
changed in the last 150 years?
Why does the New England
landscape look the way it does?
hese interrelated questions are at the heart
of the newest permanent exhibit to open
at Old Sturbridge Village: Farms, Families,
and Change: New England Farming and
Rural Life, which includes updated
exhibits at the Fenno, Fitch, and Towne
barns, as well as a brand-new exhibit – New England’s
Changing Landscape across from the Blacksmith Shop.
The Fenno Barn exhibit, Farming Life in New
England, is an introduction to farming and how it has
changed, and the Fitch Barn display, Tools of Agricultural
Change, explores the changing technology in the early
19th century. In the Towne Barn exhibit, A Revolution
in Farming, visitors learn about changes in markets
and transportation through interactive games, by
climbing on a wagon loaded with goods for market,
and by “milking” a life-size replica Devon cow.
“Many people today have no idea where their
food comes from,” notes Ed Hood, vice president of
museum program at OSV, who supervised development
of the new exhibit. “This new exhibit shows how
farming, food, and the landscape are connected and also
ties into the growing ‘eat fresh, eat local,’ ‘Slow Food,’
movement gaining interest today.”
Farming was at the heart of New England’s
economy, and its imperatives shaped the land and the
culture. New England’s farm families were crucial
actors in America’s social and economic transformation.
Expanding their economic networks and developing
new forms of production for the market, they fed the
region’s growing cities and mill villages.
This complex world of increasingly market-driven
and improved farming was one of the crucial engines
of change, although one that is often neglected in
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This visitor experience integrates with the Village’s
ongoing demonstrations of historical livestock and
agricultural work, along with three recently created
self-guided visitor trails that explore New England’s
landscape, past and present.
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