Annual Old Home Day, Sponsored by the Canterbury Historical Society—FREE PARKING & ADMISSION, RAIN OR SHINE
 Don't miss this old-timey fall festival that has become a local perennial favorite. Enjoy live music all day long, animals, children’s activities, local farm products, re-enactors, demonstrations by practitioners of many traditional crafts and trades, great food, informative displays by civic and religious groups, and the chance to meet old friends and make new ones. Visit the restored one-room Green District Schoolhouse, complete with historical photos and displays of Canterbury’s one-room-school days.
For photos of last year’s Old Home Day by the talented Linda Orlomoski, click here http://lorlomoskiphotos.smugmug.com/Events/Canterbury-Old-Home-Day-2011/19078545_nHDQtN#1484244036_wRnm3tc
Come hungry! Food will include home-baked goods, hamburgers, hot dogs, candy apples, popcorn, local fudge, fresh seasonal produce, Finnish pulla bread, and more.
Exhibitors as of September 14:
- Suzzette M. Bessette, author
- Grant Bombria, broom maker
- Fred and Fred Brehant, traditional blacksmiths
- Burgis Brook Alpacas, alpacas for sale, yarn, roving, fiber crafts, breeding
- Campion & Holdridge, antique building restoration and new post & beam construction
- Canterbury Antiques and Consignments
- Canterbury Cones, fresh ice cream, yogurt ice cream, nondairy sorbet
- Canterbury Economic Development Commission
- Canterbury Historical Society, food and Green District School exhibits
- Canterbury Lions, offering candy apples and popcorn
- Canterbury VFW
- Glenn Alan Cheney, author, selling and signing his latest book, How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts of the Death of Lincoln, the Hunt for Booth, and America in Mourning, with a foreword by Congressman Joe Courtney
- Community Emergency Response Team of Canterbury
- David Costanzo, artist
- James Easton, woodcarver
- Finnish American Heritage Society, offering pulla bread
- First Congregational Church, offering homemade pies
- Friends of the Canterbury Public Library
- Friends of the Prudence Crandall Museum
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Nipmuc Service Unit
- Howard Valley Fudge
- Bill Kivic, waffle making over open fire
- Jim Kostuk, rope making
- Lance Kozikowski, historic metal works in iron, copper, tin, and pewter
- The Last Green Valley
- Maple Leaf Farm, local maple syrup and other goodies
- McV Farm, fresh, fresh local produce
- Meadowstone Farm, locally made artisanal goat and cow cheeses, handcrafted soaps and lotions
- Bob Noiseux, vintage car rides (free!)
- Doug O'Connor, fine handcrafted Windsor furniture
- Alton Orlomoski, antiques display
- Linda Orlomoski, New England photography
- Plainfield Historical Society
- Reggie Phillips, vintage tractors
- Linda and Ernest Provencher, handmade woodenware
- Prudence Crandall Museum, at 1:30 showing “Prudence Crandall: Voice of Conviction,” an 58-minute documentary by filmmaker Bénédicte Naudin, inspired by local educator, playwright, and performer Donna Dufresne
- Hailey Quercia, artist and keeper of heritage breed chickens
- Roseland Cottage Education Department, Historic New England, Civil War re-enactors
- Paul Rulli Reproductions, museum-quality 17th and 18th century furniture reproductions
- Triple C Cakes, Cindy Miller, homemade cakes for all occasions
- Jack Tucker, old-time engines
- Bill Tyler, vintage tractors
- White Cap Builders, hand-crafted homes, home improvements, landscapes, and more
- White Cap Stables, Jasmie Fhilee, boarding stables
Exhibitors by invitation only.
Musical performers (performance times may vary slightly):
Admission and parking are always free. Everyone is cordially invited. This event will go on, rain or shine.
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