Bus trip will visit 19th-century farm recreation

HONESDALE, PA — The Wayne County Historical Society is planning a June 7 bus trip to Cooperstown that will include to the Fenimore Art Museum and the famed Farmers Museum.

One of the most popular features at the Farmers Museum is the the Lippitt Farmstead, a living example of how a farm would have operated in the mid-19th-century. Seasons are celebrated at the farm with the changing scene and changing occupations: cultivation and harvesting of hops, the area’s most valuable crop of the period; nurturing of young farm animals; shearing the sheep and combing, spinning and weaving the wool.

For more information email wchspa@ptd.net, call 570/253-3240 or visit the Wayne County Historical Society, 810 Main St., Honesdale, Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.