T#3 Fruitlands Museums and Farmhouse Historic District, Harvard, MA

TOUR #3 -Thursday, May 22, 2025

Fruitlands Museums and Farmhouse Historic District, Harvard, MA

Lunch on your own at the Museum Cafe

Departure: Durham 8:30AM and Newington 8:45AM

Approximate time of return: Newington 4:00PM and Durham 4:15PM

Cost: $63.00 per person

TOUR COORDINATOR: Judith Simpson (617) 872-2073

Today you’ll explore a bygone Transcendentalist community (1840’s) whose pastoral landscape houses wide-ranging collections of art and artifacts. The museum includes the Fruitlands farmhouse which has been restored to appear as it did in the 1840’s; a museum about Shaker life; an art gallery with 19^th century landscape paintings, vernacular American portraits, and other rotating exhibitions; as well as a museum of Native American history.

A note of interest: the original community was joined by people interested in self-sufficiency, using no hard labor and growing all food themselves. The community ultimately failed because of the difficulty of growing crops.

Fruitland was also the former home of Louisa May Alcott. In 2023 visitors to the property voted to name it one of the ten best history museums in the U.S.

Handicap Accessibility: The museum and grounds are handicap accessible.

Cost: $63.00 per person all inclusive. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 

Tour #3 -Thursday, May 22, 2025

Fruitlands Museum and Farmhouse Historic District, Harvard, MA

Lunch on your own at the Museum Café

$63.00 per person

 Name(s): ___________________________________________________Phone: _____________________ 

                _________________________________________________            Cell:  ____________ _________

Address:  ______________________________________________________________________________

E-mail address:  _________________________________________________________________________

Emergency contact name_____________________________________Relationship__________________

Emergency contact’s daytime phone_________________________

Please check here for NEWINGTON PICK UP ________________

Mail with check payable to ARA dated the day of the tour (May 22, 2025) to:  ARA, c/o Debbi Forster, 13 Marden Way, Durham, NH 03824.