Billings Farm

Billings Farm

Open Jan. 19 & 20

Billings Farm & Museum will open Jan. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., featuring horse-drawn sleigh or wagon rides, tours of the dairy farm and farm house, livestock and agriculture programs, and the video "On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy Turner."

The restored and furnished 1890 Farm House, featuring the farm office, family living quarters, and creamery and the working dairy farm, with its championship Jersey herd, Percheron and Morgan draft horses, and Southdown sheep, will be open for touring, with livestock and agriculture programs featured in the barns.

In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, "On My Own: the Traditions of Daisy Turner" may be seen throughout the day in the visitor center. The video documents the life of former slave Alexander Turner who made his way to Grafton in 1872. Based on the recollections of his daughter Daisy when she was 102, and presented through her songs, stories, and poetry, this is the remarkable narrative of Daisy’s childhood with her 12 brothers and sisters on her parents’ Grafton farm. The museum is grateful to the Vermont Folklife Center for permission to present this video.

Admission includes sleigh or wagon rides, visits to the farm and farm house and all special programs, plus "A Place in the Land," an Academy Award nominee. For information call 457-2355 or check www.billingsfarm.org on the Internet.

The Billings Farm & Museum is located one half mile north of the Woodstock village green on Vermont Route 12.

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