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News from the Farm – March
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| Dear Friend,
Happy Spring from Hallockville!
We’re excited to usher in a new season filled with opportunities for learning, discovery and connection to our agricultural heritage. Whether you’re looking to dig into hands-on activities or simply explore the history of our wonderful campus, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
March has traditionally been the month for sending out our membership applications, and this year is no exception. Be sure to check your mailboxes soon. What’s new, however, is that we’re switching to a rolling membership schedule. This means your membership will be valid for one full year from the date we receive your application. Being a member at Hallockville comes with a variety of benefits, including discounts on nearly all of our events and workshops. You can also sign up online by clicking here 2025 Membership. |
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are hosting a presentation about the life of an East End farm wife and mother between the years of 1880 and 1910. Author Debby Warner Anderson will explain how the discovery of a shoebox of letters written by her great grandmother Carrie Warner of Baiting Hollow launched Debby on a journey through local history, family genealogy and a woman’s life on Long Island around the turn of the 19th century.
Hear the story about Carrie’s Letters on Sunday, March 30 at 2 p.m. at the Hudson-Sydlowski House. Free, but registration is required via this link: Carrie’s Letters presentation.
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Walking History Tour
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries Eastern Europeans migrated to eastern Long Island buying numerous farms and making a significant impact on the area. Richard Wines and Paul Hoffman will lead a Walking History Tour on April 19 at 10 a.m. about the arrival of Polish immigrants on Sound Avenue and their contributions to the East End. Richard and Paul welcome your stories and photos related to this experience that can be shared at the event.
Free for members, $10 for non-members.
Registration is required at The Polish Immigrant Experience Walking History Tour. |
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| Our annual Fleece & Fiber Festival is less than two months away, and the excitement is already building. The Festival features artisans sharing handmade items for sale as well as shearing, spinning and weaving demonstrations and special fiber-focused tours of the Hallock Homestead. This year we will be offering weaving, crocheting and knitting workshops. Children’s activities, too. Stay tuned! |
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Out and About
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| We are grateful to all those who came to the presentation about Slavery on the North Fork presented by North Fork Project team members Amy Folk and Richard Wines. They discussed the history of slavery here from the earliest settlements until New York State abolition in 1827. Thanks also to our friends at Hallock State Park for hosting the event. |
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| Our first crafting class of the year was a Candle Making Workshop held in the Trubisz House.
Thanks to Instructor Kerri Fetten-Davis (upper left) for lending her expertise. |
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| We are pleased to have the Sound Avenue Stitchers back at Hallockville for another year of crafting as a group.
The Stitchers meet at the Hudson-Sydlowski House meeting room on the first Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Next meeting is April 2. All are welcome to join, just come on by! |
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| What a great group for our Needle Felted Egg Workshop on March 10.
Instructor Michele Miroff helped to make it a very fun experience for all.
Our next crafting event is the Penny Rugs Workshop on May 3 with Instructor Diane Schwindt.
For more information, click here Penny Rugs Workshop. |
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| Our Honey Harvest Get-Together was a hit. Master Beekeeper Chris Kelly from Promise Land Apiaries led the harvest. He is the key to our beekeeping program being as successful as it is.
To find out more about the program, head to Hallockville’s Beekeeping Program. |
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| Talk about a working board!
Board members Richard Wines and Dale Moyer (chair) pruned apple trees in the orchard on a chilly morning recently.
Thank you to Richard and Dale and to all of our board members who work behind the scenes to make Hallockville the vibrant place it is. |
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Community Garden Spot Open
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| Are you interested in growing your own organic fruit and veggies but don’t have the space? Join our Community Garden Program to grow them here at Hallockville. There is one 20′ x 20′ plot available for the upcoming growing season. Our current gardeners are already busy prepping their gardens for the warmer days ahead.
Email adminasst@hallockville.org for more information and to claim the plot for $135. |
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Naugles Barn Project Update
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| Among the many updates to the Naugles Barn for its adaptive reuse are the new windows and doors, which look amazing. We now have new interior stairs in place and the exterior decks and rails are almost done. Heating is going in soon so we can hold events all year, which is game-changing for us.
For more information about the project and/or to donate to this important initiative, please email me at execdirector@hallockville.org. |
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| Sign up now for our unique summer camp at the Farm where campers fully immerse themselves in the great outdoors. Children will spend the summer connecting with nature through close-up experiences with the sights, scents and textures of the world around us.
For more information and to register, head to 2025 Summer Farm Camp. |
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Did You Know?
Women’s History Edition
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| In 1914, when Ella Hallock’s 78-year-old father, Halsey, suggested she write down everything she did in a typical day — “she would be surprised at how much she accomplished.” She responded with a poem titled “The Account of Saturday, November 28, 1914, Is the Tale That I Now Relate.” The poem is mostly about baking bread, cooking pumpkins, dusting the kitchen, creaming chicken, driving her sister Bessie around and taking care of two young nephews who were staying with the Hallocks. After 67 rhymed lines of this, she finally gets a chance to change her dress for a social call. The next stanza reads: “I hastily put on hat and coat / And wondered if women will ever vote.”
Three years later, in 1917 when Ella was 32, New York became the first eastern state to grant full suffrage to women, and the following November the Hallock sisters recorded in their diary “first time women could vote in U.S. elections.”
Full text of Ella’s poem is on pages 122-125 of Richard Wines’s new book, A Farm Family on Long Island’s North Fork: The Lost World of the Hallocks and Their Sound Avenue Community, due out in paperback in May and now available for preorder. |
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| We have so much for which to be grateful here at Hallockville, including you. Your support means the world to us, and we hope you renew your membership or become a new member.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
All the best,
Heather
Heather Johnson
Executive Director
P.S. Keep an eye out for news about our next exhibit and updated Museum Shop! |
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