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A Minisink Valley Historical Society volunteer prepares a Thanksgiving dinner for visitors at the Fort Decker Museum of History in Port Jervis, New York. Visitors will be able to view the preparations on Saturday, November 29.

Thanksgiving dinner, served up colonial style

PORT JERVIS, NY—The Minisink Valley Historical Society will present its final fall program, the cooking of a colonial Thanksgiving dinner, on Saturday, November 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Fort Decker Museum of History. The society’s 1793 stone house museum is located at 127 West Main Street.

The all-day program will demonstrate colonial cooking techniques including the baking of bread, roasting of ducks and turkeys, baking of pumpkin pies, and making cranberry sauce and hot mulled cider the old-fashioned way. Society volunteers will demonstrate how a typical late 18th-century Thanksgiving dinner was cooked.

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Shopping local

Support a local writer, artist or non-profit this holiday season

MILFORD, PA—Safe Haven is offering for sale one-of-a-kind necklaces handcrafted by Bill Cochran of Art by the Lake this holiday season. They feature a double-sided print of the 2008 Paint Pike Purple Logo originally made by Joann Wells Greenbaum, and cost $20 each.

Safe Haven Necklace

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Grey Towers all spruced up for the Christmas season

MILFORD, PA—Grey Towers National Historic Site will offer a variety of seasonal programs throughout December, including its Christmas Carol theatrical readings, holiday musical performances, a visit from Santa and the seasonably decorated mansion open for visitation. As always, the mansion will be specially decorated for the occasion by the Milford Garden Club.

Holiday tours of the 1886 mansion will begin Friday, December 12, with a public event that kicks off the season with caroling and hot chocolate from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Traditional luminaries will light the walkway to the mansion.

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