Churning Up the Past

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November 2006
Oscar H. Will III 
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Successfully combining a working farm with an experiential museum requires hard work and cooperation. It also takes strong leadership, and people with a dream. In the case of the Billings Farm and Museum, leadership and substantial financial backing came from Frederick Billings' granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller, and her husband, Laurence Spelman Rockefeller, who together established the Woodstock Foundation, which owns and operates the Billings Farm and Museum today.

Since opening to the public, the Billings Farm and Museum has hosted more than a million visitors and 100,000 school children. The facility has provided on-site curriculum for college students studying museum science and includes special programs for home-schooled and preschool children. 'Our visitors tell us our programs are great,' Woodstock Foundation President David A. Donath writes in the 2005 annual report. 'But we're working hard to make them better.' With that kind of commitment, the Billings Farm and Museum will keep New England's rich agrarian past well-churned for generations to come.  FC

For more information:
- The Billings Farm and Museum, P.O. Box 489, Woodstock, VT 05091; (802) 457-2355; www.billingsfarm.org

Oscar 'Hank' Will III is an old-iron collector, freelance writer and photographer. He splits his time between his home in Gettysburg, Pa., and his farm in East Andover, N.H. Contact him at:  (717) 337-6068; e-mail: willo@gettysburg.edu

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