Calendar of Concerts, Reenactments, and all Special Events
RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE
56 Main Street, Clinton, New Jersey 08809
908-735-4101
Step back in time and enjoy the ambiance of earlier days when you visit the Red Mill Museum Village, the most photographed spot in New Jersey. Situated on 10 tranquil green acres next to Clinton's waterfall, the museum is just steps across the antique iron bridge from Main Street boutiques, coffee houses and restaurants.
A visit to the historic 1810 Red Mill and the other exhibit-filled buildings on the grounds makes the past seem part of the present. Each year, visitors come to the museum from all over the United States and Europe.
Open from early April to mid-October, each year the Red Mill Museum Village offers the following (for more details, click individual links at left):
"GHOST HUNTERS RETURN"
June 6, 2009
Kristyn Gartland of the Atlantic Paranormal Society known as "Ghost Hunters" from the popular Sci-Fi show will be teaching Paranormal 101. Pre-registration is required as space is limited. The cost is $75 per person for the three hour session and also includes a meet and greet with Kristyn. Times are 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm. Class also includes optional tour of The Mill and Tenate House using the equipment and skills just learned. The class will be held at The Red Mill Museum Village.
Call 908-735-4101 ext.100 for more information.
Special Exhibitions (these change each season): Concerts, such as Big Band and Bluegrass concerts and the Black Potatoe Music Festival. Civil and Revolutionary War Reenactments and Living History Days. Special Events, such as a Tour of Historic Clinton Houses, Antiques Show, Car Shows, Blacksmith Hammer-In and the famous
"Haunted Mill" at Halloween-time. Educational Tours and Programs for adults and school groups. Travel Packages with special rates at the nearby Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Select and Riverside Victorian Bed and Breakfast. Operation and programs of the Red Mill Museum Village have been made possible in part by grant funds administered by
the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission, made available by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State (a Partner Agency of the National
Endowment for the Arts), the New Jersey Historical Commission (a division of Cultural Affairs within the Department of State), and the Hunderdon County Board of Chosen
Freeholders.
Children’s Clothes of Yesterday: 1840-1930
Tomson Gallery, Second Floor, Red Mill
April 21 to October 1, 2009
Children’s Clothes of Yesterday presents clothing from the Museum’s collection. On view are approximately 20 little girls’ dresses, dating from the 1840s up to the 1930s, as well as some representative underwear of the era (drawers and petticoats). Infants’ christening dresses are also on display. Among the earliest child’s dresses is a hand sewn orange-and-white gingham dress from the 1840s, with a fashionable wide neck, short, puffed sleeves and a high, Empire-style waist echoing the French fashion of the early 1800s. Also notable is an 1840 hand sewn plum wool dress with dramatic black looping trim on the neck, sleeves and skirt. A gift of Mrs. Harold Ellsworth in 1970, the dress belonged to her grandmother.
Little boys’ clothes are also on view, including two pristine sailor suits worn by nine-year-old Cyril Franklin dos Passos in 1889. The suits were made by the ship’s tailor of the “USS Minnesota” and donated in 1988 by Maria Amalia dos Passos, cousin of the writer, John dos Passos. A hand-sewn boy’s dress in red, green and brown plaid trimmed with cream lace and brown velvet can also be seen. Donated by Dorothy Boss in 1968, the dress was worn by her father-in-law, Henry Boss, when he was three years old in 1866. Children’s Clothes of Yesterday was curated by Melissa Mohlman and Lynn Burtis, a professional dressmaker and pattern maker. As an adjunct to the exhibit, a committee of volunteers under Lynn Burtis’ direction is copying several of the antique dresses in the exhibit in preparation for a little girls’ fashion show, planned for this May 16th at the fourth annual Little Girls’ Dress-Up Victorian Tea.
Special Exhibition: Locks—the Search for Security
April 7 – July 12, 2009
Gallery One
Locks: the Search for Security presents an unusual look at the history of man’s age-old search for privacy and safety. Selected from the extensive collection of lock enthusiast Robert Loughlin, Locks will be on view until July 12, 2009.
Among the locks on display are examples of seals, wooden pin tumblers and modern mechanisms. These locks come in the most unexpected variety of sizes and shapes. They range from a dramatic large wooden example of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian tumbler lock, to ancient Greco-Roman and 600-year-old Persian padlocks. There are primitive-looking African locks and an elegant 1,000-year-old Chinese lock in the shape of a fish. And there are complex modern locks.
Robert Loughlin, an engineer and graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, is a life-long inventor and collector of locks. He has worked in the lock industry for 35 years. During that time he helped develop weapons security systems for the Department of Defense
