Glebe House History Camp Is Returning; Applications Are Available

WOODBURY — The eleventh annual Glebe House History Camp for children will be offered in two one-week sessions, June 25 to 29 and July 9 to 13, at Glebe House Museum, on Hollow Road in Woodbury.

Enrollment is open to all children ages eight to 12. Camp runs Monday through Friday, from 9:30 am to 3 pm each day. Cost fee is $135 for the five-day session, which includes all supplies.

Camp Director Jonathan Coe will lead a variety of hands-on activities to bring Colonial history to life and provide the experience of what it was like to be a child 200 years ago. Mr Coe has led the camp for several years and is a Darien public school teacher.

History Camp activities feature such activities as cooking, butter-making, games, dyeing wool, writing with a quill, learning to comb animal hair for spinning, identifying common medicinal herbs, and outdoor hearth cooking.

History Camp participants will also take a walking tour of other historical sites in Woodbury. Glebe House volunteers will share their areas of expertise with children attending camp.

The Glebe House Museum, a non-profit educational institution, provides visitors with a glimpse of family life in the 18th Century at the time of the Revolutionary War. A glebe is the farmland enjoyed by a rural clergyman. The house, built around 1750, became a glebe house when The Rev John Rutgers Marshall moved into the house as the pastor of the local Anglican Church in 1771.

For more information about the History Camp program, call the museum office at 203-263-0855.