Try an 18th century Thanksgiving

Port Jervis, N.Y. — On the Saturday after Thanksgiving will you be exhausted from too much food or too much college football? Will you have house guests that you just cannot handle anymore? Will you despise the thought of having to go Christmas shopping? Or perhaps you will just want to get out and enjoy watching other people cooking over an open fire and sharing mulled cider. If so, the Minisink Valley Historical Society presents its final fall program, the cooking of a colonial Thanksgiving dinner, on Saturday, Nov. 24, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fort Decker. The Society’s 1793 stone house museum is located at 127 West Main Street in Port Jervis. The all-day program will demonstrate colonial cooking techniques including the baking of bread, roasting of ducks and turkeys, baking of pies, and making cranberry sauce and hot mulled cider the old-fashioned way. Society volunteers will demonstrate how they cooked a typical late 18th century Dutch Thanksgiving dinner. This annual program is well attended and visitors can pick up those last minute hard-to-find holiday items in our gift shop. For further information regarding the Colonial Thanksgiving Dinner program please call 845-856-2375. The Society also has an informative web page on the Internet and the address is www.minisink.org. For those who are physically challenged we recommend calling first to be sure that we can accommodate.