Glebe House Announces 10th Annual History Camp

WOODBURY — The tenth annual Glebe House History Camp for children will be offered in two, one-week sessions, June 26-30 and July 10-14, at Glebe House Museum on Hollow Road.

Enrollment is open to all children ages 8 to 12. Camp runs from 9:30 am to 3 pm. The fee is $135 for the five-day session and includes all supplies.

Camp Director Jonathan Coe will lead a variety of hands-on activities to bring Colonial history to life and provide the experience of what it was like to be a child 200 years ago. Mr Coe has led the camp for several years, is a Darien public school teacher.

History Camp features such activities as cooking, butter-making, games, dyeing wool, writing with a quill, learning to comb animal hair for spinning, identifying common medicinal herbs, and outdoor hearth cooking.

History Camp participants take walking tours of other historical sites in Woodbury, and Glebe House volunteers share their areas of expertise with children attending the camp.

The Glebe House Museum, a non-profit educational institution, provides visitors with a glimpse of family life in the 18th Century at the time of the Revolutionary War. A glebe is the farmland enjoyed by a rural clergyman. The house, built around 1750, became a glebe house when the Rev. John Rutgers Marshall moved into the house as the pastor of the local Anglican Church in 1771.

For more information about the History Camp program, call the museum office at 263-2855.