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| Fairy Parade |
Connecticut Landmarks' Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden located
on 9 Main Street in the scenic village of Bethlehem in the heart of the
Litchfield Hills will host the fourth annual Caroline's Enchanted Garden: Fairy
& Wizard Festival, on Saturday, May 11th, from 1 to 4 pm.
Children and families can participate in many magical activities
offered at this unique festival for kids. One popular activity is for
kids to make a basket fairy house out of all natural materials including
bark, leaves, twigs, pine cones, and moss to create a charming little home that
any fairy would be pleased to move in to. Kids can bring the fairy house home
as a souvenir or find a place for it in the Fairy Village to remain throughout
the summer on the grounds of the Bellamy-Ferriday Gardens. Another
activity for kids is to follow the trail of fairy house's & woodland
creatures made by staff and volunteers to the Fairy Village. Materials will also be available in the Fairy
Village to make a fairy dwelling to stay on the property.
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| Fairy Castle |
Back by popular demand, Cyril May, the Resourcerer and Director of
Yale Recycling, will incorporate magic into a program that teaches children
about the value of preserving open space using fairy and animal stories. He
will tell tales while performing tricks around the Bellamy- Ferriday grounds,
and give a Recycling is Magic show.
Other activities include a Garden Wizard offering children the
opportunity to pot a small plant for Mother's Day, a strolling musician, story
reader and puppeteer Sue Meister, pony rides with Joan Coogan of Watertown's
Pony Tales and a game circle. Children are encouraged to come in fairy and
wizard costume, and kids of all ages are invited to participate in hands-on
craft activities, including making fairy wands out of apple tree suckers from
the Ferriday orchard and creating wizard hats. The afternoon will conclude with
a fairy and wizard parade around the Bellamy-Ferriday grounds.
Admission is $5 per person; $20 families/$15 CTL Member families.
About the Bellamy Ferriday House and
Garden
The
Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden, located at 9 Main Street North, Bethlehem
is open May through October. Hours are as follows: May – September, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12 – 4pm; October, Saturday & Sunday 12 –
4pm. Open on Monday Holidays: Memorial Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day.
Admission is $7 for adults; $6 for students, teachers and seniors; $4 for
children age 6-18; children under 6 and Connecticut Landmarks' members are
free. Families, 2 adults with children, are $15; groups of 10 or more are $5
each. For school groups and special curriculum-based programming, to reserve
tours for groups of 10 or more, or to rent the facility, please call the
Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden at (203) 266-7596.
Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden embodies the dramatically
different passions of two extraordinary individuals. Bethlehem pastor Rev.
Joseph Bellamy, a renowned leader of the Great Awakening, the emotional
religious revival of the 1740s, built the house around 1754. In 1912, New
Yorkers Henry and Eliza Ferriday acquired it as a summer residence. Mrs.
Ferriday and her daughter, Caroline, designed a formal garden which today
features historic-style roses, peonies, and lilacs. The Ferriday's other
landscape improvements make the site a destination for gardeners. Caroline, an
actress, conservationist and philanthropist, deeded the property and
furnishings to Connecticut Landmarks on her death.
About Connecticut Landmarks
Founded in 1936,
Connecticut Landmarks is the largest state-wide heritage museum organization in
Connecticut. The historic landmark properties include: the Bellamy-Ferriday
House & Garden, Bethlehem; the Butler-McCook House & Garden and Main
Street History Center, Hartford; the Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield; the
Hempsted Houses, New London; the Isham-Terry House, Hartford; the Nathan Hale
Homestead, Coventry; and the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden, Suffield.
Connecticut Landmarks' mission is to inspire interest and
encourage learning about the American past by preserving selected historic
properties, collections and stories and presenting programs that meaningfully
engage the public and our communities. For more information, please visit
www.ctlandmarks.org.
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