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HEARTHSIDE EVENTSView the 2008 Events CalendarHearthside is the site of many different types of events throughout the year, which have a specific historical theme. Such events include a Traditional Afternoon Tea, Early American Crafts demonstrations, and Victorian Christmas Open House. Hearthside has also been the host of a field hospital for a Civil War Re-enactment on the neighboring Chase Farm property. See what some of our past events have been like, and be sure to watch the website for announcements of upcoming events. Victorian Christmas Open House Hearthside is a featured site during the Town of Lincoln's annual
Festival of Lights celebration held the first weekend of December each year.
Volunteers spend weeks Festival of Early American Trades
Civil War Re-enactment – Battle at Chase Farm and Field Hospital at Hearthside The re-enactment included volunteers from Friends of Hearthside who portrayed the George Barnes family, who actually lived at Hearthside in 1863, when this mock battle was fought. After setting up camp on Friday evening, the soldiers knocked at the front door of Hearthside and demanded that the family leave the premises, as the army was now in charge of the house. The Barnes family took their belonging and moved upstairs, just as it would’ve happened during the Civil War. This signature event for Hearthside brought over 3,000 visitors to the house, and some 400 re-enactors from all over New England participated in this living history event. A commemorative medallion key ring was produced especially for this event, and is still available in the Hearthside Gift Shop for $4.00. The attractive gold coin features an etching of Hearthside on one side and a group of soldiers on the reverse side, entitled Chase Farm 2002. The next scheduled Civil War Re-enactment will take place the first weekend of June 2005. Click HERE for Photos! Spirited Evenings at Hearthside Everyone who visits an old house invariably asks the question “Is the house haunted?” Some have hinted that they have experienced strange feelings in one room or another, or heard noises while in the house alone. Since there has been such interest in exploring this question and learning more about the “other side,” we decided to invite a well known medium to visit Hearthside. On a cold, rainy February night in 2003, Carole Lynne, one of the most popular psychic mediums in New England, conducted a demonstration before a sold-out audience. Learn more! Open House Frequent Open Houses at Hearthside often include an opportunity
for visitors to also experience other historic properties along Great Road.
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decorating each room to transform the mansion back
to a Christmas from more than 100 years ago. Visitors to Hearthside delight
in the magic of a traditional Victorian Christmas as they enter the house,
which was festooned with countless poinsettias, holly, laurel and spruce
and many special personal touches brought in by the volunteers from their
own holiday collections. An Open House is usually held on Sunday afternoon,
followed by a candlelight tour in the early evening. The festive atmosphere
is enhanced with the seasonal music by a harpist, homemade cookies, and a
gift shop stocked with holiday gifts. Click
Demonstrations of forgotten crafts along with the aroma of home-made apple
crisp takes place in the fall at Hearthside. Usually held on the first Saturday
in October, visitors watch as craftspeople, dressed in period clothing, demonstrate
quilting, basket making, spinning, embroidery, stained glass, use of herbs,
gravestone etching, stenciling, rug hooking, and blacksmithing. A country
stand provides hot cider on a crisp fall day, along with home-made apple
crisp, apple pies, and breads. Demonstrations take place throughout the house
as well as outdoors. Neighboring properties provided an opportunity for visitors
to tour other significant historic sites, such as the Friends Meeting House,
It's
a return to the gentle splendor of a bygone era at Hearthside,
with spring flowers, elegant hats, delicate lace, dainty teacups and fancy
finger foods as Friends of Hearthside hosts its annual Traditional Afternoon
Tea at the end of April each year. This event
has become our most popular one, and
always sells out so early ticket purchase is recommended. A
theme is featured each year, such as "the history of hats, the language of
the fan, the language of flowers, the history of the parasol, etc. Guests
may be eligible for prizes for their hats and magnificent raffle baskets
are also available. Two seatings take
place and tickets must
be purchased in advance by calling Hearthside at 401.726-0597. Shopping
at the Hearthside Gift Shop is always
a treat where you can find lovely little luxuries at
affordable prices,
perfect for Mother's Day. 
The cannons thundered through the air, uniformed soldiers charged at each
other while firing their guns, and in the end, bloodied bodies were littered
among the countryside “battlefields” of Chase Farm Park. This
was the reoccurring theme during the last weekend of September 2002, as the
Town hosted the Civil War Re-enactment once again. But this re-enactment
had a special feature that has not been done elsewhere in New England. For
the first time, a historic home, in this case Hearthside, was used
as part of the re-enactment and turned into a field hospital by the soldiers.
Staffed by actual medics from the National Guard, Hearthside was
transformed from its beautiful, serene presence along Great Road to become
the chaotic scene of men screaming in agonizing pain, blood spilling forth
from the many “surgeries and amputations”, and women trying to
calm and soothe the frightened soldiers. 
opportunities allow visitors to travel back in time from 1687 at the