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Fall Hearth Cooking Workshop & Luncheon
October 19, 2012 - 9:00am - 1:00pm

Roll up your sleeves, tie your apron and join us at the hearth of the Collins-Sharp House as we prepare a delicious fall luncheon. Using the recipes, tools and techniques of the 18th century, our costumed hearth cooks will assist you in creating a mid-day feast featuring the bounty of the autumn garden.

Cost $75 Members $50
 

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Home School Day
September 7, 2012 - 9:00am - 1:00pm

Join us for a school tour sampler designed just for homeschoolers. Take your family back in time to explore the 18th century. The Historic Odessa Foundation is an enclave of historic buildings and gardens located in the small community of Odessa, Delaware, on the banks of the Appoquinimink River. Relatively untouched by the development typical of other areas, it offers a unique and well-documented picture of 18th and early 19th century lifestyles in a rural village that played a significant role in the Mid-Atlantic’s commercial history.

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Lecture: Eleazer McComb, Colonial Family Artifacts
June 20, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

FREE Lecture presented by the curator of the exhibit, Brian Miller, HOF Assistant Curator: Wednesday, June 20, 7 p.m., Historic Odessa Foundation’s Bank Building Meeting Room.

Discover some interesting facts about one of Delaware’s colonial statesmen, Eleazer McComb and his family. Hear about the content of his fourteen letters to his future bride and learn about the artifacts that have been brought together to paint a broader picture of his life. A brief tour of the parlor exhibit will be offered at the conclusion of the lecture.

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Eleazer McComb, Colonial Family Artifacts
May 15, 2012 - 10:00am - July 15, 2012 - 4:30pm

Together again for the first time in over two hundred years are fourteen letters that Eleazer McComb wrote to his future wife Lydia Irons and other artifacts related to the McComb family. Step into the Corbit Sharp House parlor (a National Historic Landmark House) to view the display of McComb’s colonial portrait by Charles Willson Peale and his wife’s portrait by James Claypoole, both owned by the Historic Odessa Foundation. McComb’s portrait has hung in the Corbit Sharp house since the 1930’s.

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Furniture Study Day
May 9, 2012 - 9:30am - 4:00pm

The furniture on exhibit in the houses of Historic Odessa deserves your attention! There are many original Corbit furnishings as well as key examples made by John Janvier and the several excellent furniture makers he trained and employed in Odessa from the 1770s on. Aside from local interest, this furniture reveals much about furniture and the furniture-making trade in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.

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