5 Yesterdays (Grades 3-8)

5 Yesterdays is a one-of-a-kind learning progam for rising third through eighth graders. This program offers one-week hands-on summer sessions which concentrate on the crafts and lifestyles of the Moravians who lived in Salem in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Sessions meet Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm in Old Salem. Participants are introduced to textiles, pottery, fireplace cooking, leatherworking, and woodworking. Activities are planned according to age and ability. The activities are varied each year so participants attending more than one year in a row will not repeat previous activities.

Each 5 Yesterdays week concludes with a special Lovefeast at Home Moravian Church on Friday. Children will be in traditional Moravian dress to attend the Lovefeast on Friday. There will be time for photo opportunities at 11:45 a.m. after the Lovefeast. 

Cost: $175/$140 Friends of Salem

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2012 Registration Form

Deadline is May 30, 2012

Grades 6-8:  June 25 - 29, 2012

Grades 3-5: July 2 - 6, 2012; July 9 - 13, 2012; & July 16 - 20, 2012 

For more information, please contact Darlee Snyder at (336)721-7390

3 Yesterdays (Grades 1-2)

Rising 1st and 2nd graders are invited to follow Sister Maus through Salem and discover how children worked, learned, and played long ago.

Activities include making and playing with 18th century toys, hearth cooking, gardening, learning in a traditional school, and a puppet show with Sister Maus.

Grades 1-2: July 24 - 26, 2012

Cost: $100/$85 Friends of Salem

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2012 Registration Form

Deadline is May 30, 2012

For more information, please contact Darlee Snyder at (336)721-7390

   Apprenticeship Program (Grades 9-11)

The Apprentice Program is a two week hands-on experience with the Old Salem Historic Trades staff. Apprentices will learn about the importance of trades and how the knowledge and skills of the craftsmen were handed down generation to generation.

Each apprentice will finish projects in period crafts, work on one large group project, and help prepare a full historic meal on the hearth.  This year’s focus is on textiles, flax and wool and apprentices will also learn about tinsmithing, blacksmithing and leatherworking.

They will become familiar with the workings of a living history museum, see behind the scenes and begin to understand a trade and interpret it to visitors.  They will dress in period costume each day. 

Grades 9-11: June 18 - 22 & June 26-29 (10:00am to 4:00pm)

Cost: $250/$225 Friends of Old Salem

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2012 Apprentice Application

Deadline is May 1, 2012

For more information please contact Drew Neill or Mike Fox at (336)721-7393