This year’s Nickerson Family Association, Inc. reunion will be held in the beautiful Cape Cod town of Yarmouth, rich with Nickerson family history. Information will be mailed to members in June. We have planned many fun events for the weekend including a tour of the artist Edward Gorey’s home, Elephant House, and an interpreted visit …
Are you passionate about Colonial cooking and Colonial history? Would you like to learn how food is baked in a traditional beehive oven? Join us on Sun., Jan. 27 from noon to 3 p.m. as our open hearth cook bakes her great-grandmother’s favorite recipes in the working beehive oven at the c. 1829 Caleb Nickerson …
Our first-ever Caleb Nickerson Homestead Mitten Tree was a smashing success! We collected a total of 43 pairs of mittens and a phenomenal 39 hats– many of them in matching sets with the mittens. Of those, 22 pairs of mittens were knitted by visitors to the Caleb Homestead’s holiday party on Dec. 1, and 21 …
YOU’RE INVITED! Ring in the holidays with old-fashioned “Good Cheer! during the 15th Annual Nickerson Family Association Hearthside Open House Party! Enjoy sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, Christmas cookies, cranberry punch and hot cider… many prepared from 19th century recipes and served fireside in our beautifully-decorated Nickerson Homestead! Give the gift of warmth and bring a pair of …
Want to see the NFA’s excavation of the c. 1664 homestead of William and Anne Nickerson from above? Here is a new version of the drone video shot by Peter Greer of Chatham on Mon., Oct. 22.
“We’re going to be studying this site for years to come,” says archaeologist Craig Chartier, speaking of the excavation of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson’s c. 1664 homestead, a project sponsored by the Nickerson Family Association, Inc., (NFA). Chartier, director of the Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project, has been directing the dig since July 30. The project has two …
The Nickerson Family Association, Inc. will celebrate Massachusetts Archaeology Month with tours, a brief talk and refreshments at its 17thcentury archaeological dig site on Fri., Oct. 12 from 2 to 3 p.m. Everyone is invited to visit the site of the c. 1664 homestead of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson that has been under excavation …
As the excavation of the c. 1664 homestead of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson enters its third month, archaeologist Craig Chartier of the Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project is calling the site “one of the best preserved, most informative 17thcentury sites in New England, especially on Cape Cod.” One of the reasons the site is so …
At the end of the second week of the excavation of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson’s c. 1664 homestead, the archaeological team has more questions than it began with. A trove of charred beans and corn was a rare find, and seemed to bolster the hypothesis that the house once burned. Click below for an …
