Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

 Old Bethpage Village Restoration (OBVR) will celebrate an "1863 Thanksgiving"  Visitors to the re-created 19th-century village will be able to enjoy the sights and smells of an old-fashioned Thanksgiving, as wood-burning stoves, beehive stoves, beehive ovens and hearths are used to prepare foods and baked goods made from 19th-century recipes.

The culinary exhibits include the "spitting" and roasting of turkey in a tin reflector oven beside the Williams House hearth and preparation of pies at the Powell House (pictured right). OBVR will also display 19th-century methods of food preservation employed for late fall crops.

In addition, each afternoon, historical period music will be played, while at the Noon Inn, children's stories will be read several times each day.