Down at the Landing: Maritime Trades in Early Colonial Times
Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/02/2018
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Counting House Park
Categories
A special event, Down at the Landing: Maritime Trades in Early Colonial Times, will be held at Counting House Park, on Liberty Street in South Berwick, on June 2nd from 10 am – 4 pm. The Old Berwick Historical Society presents this event in conjunction with the public opening of the Counting House Museum for its summer season. The museum currently features the exhibit Forgotten Frontier: Untold Stories of the Piscataqua. The program and the museum are free to the public.
Reenactors will demonstrate the trades of barrel making, basket weaving, rope making, ship rigging, and doctoring at sea at the head of tide in South Berwick, along the Salmon Falls River. Visitors will be able to talk with presenters and participate in some of the trades.
The all-day program invites history enthusiasts, craftspeople, maker space enthusiasts, educators, families and children to the riverside park to see the trades of a working port that sustained communities throughout the Piscataqua region for over 200 years.