Billings Farm & Museum Celebrates 25th Anniversary on July 20
Governor Jim Douglas to Speak
Billings Farm & Museum, gateway to Vermont's rural heritage, invites the public to its 25th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, July 20, 2008. Governor James Douglas will be the guest speaker as the Farm & Museum celebrates Vermont's rural culture with traditional music and programs from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for the entire day. Laurance and Mary Rockefeller founded the Billings Farm & Museum 25 years ago. Their vision was to preserve the Billings Farm, open it to the public and to create a museum that would tell the story of the farming culture of rural Vermont. In addition to programs and activities at the the farm, in the museum exhibits, and in the restored and furnished 1890 Farm House, the 25th Anniversary Celebration will feature: The Vermont Fiddle Orchestra at 1:00 p.m., followed by remarks by Vermont Governor James Douglas at 2:00 p.m.; author and storyteller Willem Lange at 3:00 p.m., and Robert Resnik & Friends at 4:00 p.m. An operating dairy farm and museum dedicated to telling the story of Vermont's rural heritage, the Billings Farm & Museum is owned and operated by The Woodstock Foundation, Inc., a charitable non-profit institution founded by Mary French and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller. The Farm & Museum serves as a gateway to rural Vermont's heritage for 60,000 visitors a year from all over the world. It is also an operating partner of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. More that 6,000 students from Vermont and neighboring states visit the Billings Farm & Museum annually, participating in programs tied directly to the Vermont Educational Standards.
Billings Farm & Museum Route 12 & River Road P.O. Box 489 Woodstock, VT 05091-0489 802-457-2355 ~ Fax: 802-457-4663