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Find out more »Living History Sunday: Tavern Games
Bring Dad out to Graeme Park for a tour and Living History event featuring costumed interpreters playing various tavern games. We'll be selling hot dogs, soft pretzels, beer and soda, or bring a picnic lunch. The Living History demonstrations are free, house tours are free for Dads, $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds.
Find out more »Independence Day at Graeme Park
View our flag collection and join us for a reading of the Declaration of Independence. The Living History demonstrations are free, house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds. Schedule TBD.
Find out more »Living History Sunday: The Lenni Lenape in Pennsylvania
Learn about the traditions, games, crafts, and foodways of the Lenni Lenape. The Living History demonstrations are free, house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds.
Find out more »Living History Sunday: Colonial Dress
Join us for a Living History event featuring costumed interpreters dressed in a variety of colonial garb appropriate for their role. The Living History demonstrations are free, house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds.
Find out more »Life in William Penn’s Woods
Take a guided nature walk through the grounds of Graeme Park and learn about how our colonial forefathers would have used the land and the resources found here. Leashed dogs welcome.
Find out more »Living History Sunday: Children’s Day
Children will have the opportunity to attend colonial school, write with quill pens, and play colonial games. The Living History demonstrations are free and house tours are $5/12+, and $3/3-11. Please note that this is a $1 discount on our regular $6 house tour for 12-64 year-olds. Tours will run at approximately 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30 pm.
Find out more »CANCELED – Antiques Appraisal with Locati, LLC
Join us for a fun and informative antiques appraisal event with Locati, LLC of Maple Glen. Michael Locati, an expert appraiser, will give a brief talk on the current antiques market - what's hot and what's not, then appraise items brought in by the community. All items brought in for appraisal will be placed on a table with an index card with your information and appraised in a group format. We ask that you bring only one item for appraisal…
Find out more »Homeschool Day
Enjoy a Day of Fun and Learning at this 18th Century Plantation. The Keith House at Graeme Park is a National Historic Landmark built c. 1722 as the summer home of Sir William Keith, then Governor of Pennsylvania. The Georgian style mansion was later owned and updated by Dr. Thomas Graeme and, during the Revolution, the writer Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson called the estate home. Learn about life on an 18th century country estate and about the lives of the owners…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: The Bryn Athyn Train Wreck
December 5, 1921. Two trains. One track. 27 dead. 70 injured. The crash in Bryn Athyn of two opposing trains of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway was one of the most catastrophic of its time, yet largely unknown today. Many factors contributed to the disaster that unfolded between Woodmont and Paper Mill Stations in Upper Moreland Township, including the wooden passenger cars, which were equipped with gas tanks for heating, the terrain, and the weather. Speaker Jim Rose is a…
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