Experience
family life in rural Maine from 1865
to 1940 through our collection of household and farm items. Also visit a one-room
schoolhouse, carriage house, blacksmith shop, general store and the Heritage Garden.
Gallery Tours (30 Minutes each. $30 Booking fee. Maximum of 30 guests):
Farm Life – Tour of the Carriage House, Blacksmith
shop, Lumbering and farming equipment.
Home Life – Tour the interior of the Page Farm
including the kitchen, parlor, bedroom, and some ways they made a living.
Community Life – Tour of the Schoolhouse, Grange Hall and General Store.
Curriculum Tours (All tours are 1 hour unless otherwise noted):
Six Simple Machines - Pulley, Wheel, Inclined
Plane, Screw, Wedge and Lever. Tour the simple machines in use in the home and on
the farm before the advent of electricity. $2.00 per person fee, 10 guests minimum, 30 guests
maximum.
Folk Art - Demonstrations of spinning wool and stenciling. A hands-on workshop for all ages (not intensive). $2.00 per
person fee, 10 guests minimum, 30 guests maximum.
School Days - Go to school in the Holden schoolhouse and learn
what it was like to attend a one-room schoolhouse in the late 19th century. All ages and hands-on. $2.00 per
person fee, 20 guests maximum.
Leisure Time – Experience the various toys and games of
the period. Make your own toy and learn
some riddles, rhymes, and tongue twisters.
All ages. $2.00 per person fee, 25 guests maximum.
Heritage Garden - Heirloom Vegetable and Formal Herb Gardens. Seasonally, students and others tour the heirloom
vegetables and herbs with a master gardener. All ages.
There is a $30.00 booking fee, 25 guests maximum.
Scavenger Hunt – Through clues, discover and learn
about various items throughout all the entire farm and home museum. There is a
$30.00 booking fee for up to 30 guests, $36 for a maximum of 60 guests.
Maple-Sugaring - Curriculum Intensive Experience.
Learn about the maple-sugaring process through multi-media. Have a maple sugar-on-snow party and carry
out a curriculum activity. $2.00 per
person fee, 30 guests maximum. Maximum of 30 guests.
Ice Harvesting - Curriculum Intensive Experience. Learn about ice harvesting methods, use
artifacts, and complete a science experiment. $2.00 per person fee, 30 guests
maximum.
Most tours can be adjusted for any age group
according to the Maine Learning Results.
Groups must be accompanied by one (free) chaperone for every ten students.
There is a fee of $2.00 per person for chaperones over the required amount,
except in cases of special needs.
The minimum charge for each program is $30.
Teachers:
To book a tour, either contact Patricia Henner
at 207-581-4100 or e-mail pagefarm@umit.maine.edu
with the following information:
-Name
-Contact number
-School name and address
-Grade/Age of students
-Number or students and chaperones
-Requested date and time of tour. Please
provide a “backup” date to help with conflicts.
-Type of tour
Please feel free to contact us at any time: