Any assessment of health care in the 18th century, when life expectancy on both sides of the Atlantic averaged about 43 years, must include personnel ranging from educated physicians through barbers and midwives to neighborhood quacks.  Diseases were attributed to superstitions, to bad behavior, or inhalation of foul air.  Remedies included everything from herbal extracts, poultices, and cold baths to the most “advanced” treatments of bloodletting by non-sterile instruments or even leeches. During the entire century people lived in constant…

Celebrate Mother's Day at Graeme Park with a breakfast buffet catered by A&J Catering in our floored, enclosed event tent. Tours of the historic Keith House following breakfast. Seatings at 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. MENU Fresh Fruit Salad Bagels & Cream Cheese Danish Cooked to Order Omelet Bar French Toast Belgian Waffles Hash Browns Sausage, Bacon, Ham Orange Juice & Coffee $20/members; $25/non-members; $12.50/children (ages 6-12); high chairs are NOT available. RESERVATIONS/PREPAYMENT REQUIRED Please purchase your tickets online.

On Saturday, May 20 we’ll be beautifying Graeme Park and helping Mother Nature by planting a border of wildflower seeds along the woods behind the Keith House. Bring your garden gloves, tools to scratch up the dirt and cut back vines if you have ‘em (rakes, hand tillers, pruners, etc.), and a few packs of wildflower seeds if you’d like to donate them. We’re starting around 10:30 a.m. and we’ll supply lunch, whatever tools we have, and seeds. Please contact…

The Graemes are in Philadelphia, but Miss Julie is hard at work in the Graeme Park kitchen throughout the day preparing dinner for her family at Graeme Park. If you ask, she will share her receipts (recipes) with you! There will be a brief talk on colonial hearth cooking at 2 p.m

Join us for an evening happy hour on the lovely summer grounds of Graeme Park, and lecture on Loyalists during the American Revolution. During the Revolution your neighbor may have been a Loyalist! Jack Washington will present some of these local Loyalists and their fate at the hands of their pro-Revolutionary neighbors. He will also provide enlightenment on the attempts by General Howe during the occupation of Philadelphia in 1777-78 to recruit some of these disaffected persons into his military…

Meet "Dr. Thomas Graeme", patriarch of the Graeme family, and learn about the role of fathers in the 18th century and their place as head of the family. Interactive living history throughout the day with brief talk at 2 pm.

"Dr. Benjamin Rush," close friend of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, and signer of the Declaration, will reflect on Independence.