Posted in Activities, Events, Food, Road Trips, tagged 1839 replica one room school house, 1894 carousel, 19th century dairy equipment, 19th century instruments, 19th century willowbrook village, Adventure, antique farm tools, baked beans, bean supper, classes at Willowbrook in Newfield, cutepotato.com, durgin barn, Family, Farms, gneiss brewing company, gold pearl printing press, hand forged knife, Hilltop Boilers, history, kids, knife making, laura ingalls wilder, letterpress printing, little house in the big woods, maine, maine sugarhouse, maple syrup, maple syrup saturday, maple whoopie pies, newfield maine, restored carriages and sleighs, sap bucket races, Travel, village, willowbrook village, Willowbrook Village opening day, wooden butter churn on March 30, 2016|
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Note: Sadly, Willowbrook Village closed in fall 2016 after 46 years of operation. See this Portland Press Herald feature for more.
With Maine Maple Sunday landing on Easter this year, we knew we wouldn’t have time to visit one of our favorite farms. So, we decided to switch things up a little and make the trip to 19th Century Willowbrook Village in Newfield for Maple Syrup Saturday. The historic, country village has long been on our wish list of places to visit and this special event, which featured carriage rides, maple syrup making, a bean supper-style lunch, and a letterpress demonstration, gave us good reason to go.
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