FOUR FREE ADMISSIONS (ADULT OR CHILD)
PUMPKIN DAY AT COGSWELL’S GRANT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014
11:00AM – 4:00PM

Celebrate the arrival of fall at Cogswell’s Grant. Children and adults can enjoy hay wagon rides, carve and decorate pumpkins, compete in a pumpkin pie-eating contest, do craft activities and play games, and try cider pressing. Choose your jack-o-lantern from our pumpkin
patch and enjoy hot mulled apple cider and homemade baked goods. The historic house will also be open for tours of our celebrated collection of American antiques and folk art.

http://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/cogswell.htm

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 charted new areas of American folk art 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. Their collection was arranged for visual delight rather than historical accuracy, and the result is rich in atmosphere and crowded with collections of things -- portraits, redware, painted furniture, hooked rugs, weather vanes, and decoys -- that have since come to define the country look.