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Annual Events September - Annual Kelley-Fisk Farm Festival-Weekend after Labor Day. These have been held since 1986. It is a fun-filled family weekend with lots of entertainment, crafters, food, encampments and some antique autos and tractors. We make homemade apple pie on the premises. This is our major fundraiser for the year which enables us to do our best to maintain the historic building and grounds
Click here to print a copy of the crafter or demonstrator registration form
December - Christmas Open house first full weekend in December Noon-4:00 p.m.. The house is decorated for the season with music in the parlor, goodies in the kitchen and Santa visiting with the children in the sitting room. Presented free of charge to the community for their support throughout the year
Archives -An addition was built onto the school to house handicapped restrooms and archival space. Current archives include 100 years of Milford Times newspapers dating from approximately 1878-1978. In 1990, local historians, Audrey Hunt and Katie Johnson, co-authored In Remembrance, a history of White Late Township and the pioneers who settled it. All of the photos and research associated with this are also in the archives. Use by appointment only. Field Trips Schools and Scouts are invited to participate in field trips Farmhouse Field Trip Long Ago-- This covers pre-historic finds in the area and the culture of the Native Americans. It also illustrates how the families who built and inhabited this farmhouse came to Michigan. Music of the time period will also presented. Morning at the Farm --Through the use of antiques, we explore living on the farm and the efforts it took just to get up and ready oneself to go to school. Also covered are the chores of the men and women throughout the day. Recess (kind of) After the first presentation, the students move to the barn where they will have a chance to expend some excess energy and learn something too! After this, they return to the house for the second presentation. A visit to the schoolhouse in lieu of the barn is an option.
October-December and March-June
Christmas Field Trip In early to mid December we offer a special 2-hour field trip to allow the children to experience Christmas at the farm. We are very careful to explain that the reason we discuss Christmas is the fact that both families who lived here were practicing Christians and therefore observed Christmas as a special day. This is also $2.00 per person. School Field Trip In 1995 we dismantled the Thompson School, moved it to this historic property and reconstructed it. “Day in a One Room School” field trips are now available. Children will experience what it was like to learn in the time period 1876-1910.
We have access to the curriculums used at several Day in a One Room School Programs. We will loan these out in advance of your trip. We also have available for your use, level 2 Harper’s Readers and reproduction slates. In addition, many of the original texts used in the school are on display. Farm and school phone number is 248-698-3350, however, since no answering machine is available or regular hours kept at the facilities, phone number is only good for the day of the field trip (approximately one hour before arrival time or after departure). Other Field Trips Various other groups can be accommodated on an as requested basis. We have hosted groups of Questers, DAR, senior citizens , blind support groups as well as those who are physically or mentally challenged. For reservations call Ron Hinman 248-698-9279 or Marge Sawruk 248-698-2737 For Sale
In Remembrance books are available at the White Lake Township Hall M-F 9-5 in the treasurer's office and all items are available by calling one of the officers or stopping in at our various annual events. |
