Please join the NSCDA-MA for the John & Dorothy Hancock’s Wedding Anniversary & Ice Cream Social celebrating 250 Years of Love at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead House. The program is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Quincy Art Council.
The art of spinning is best learned by the young, and Zoe Lawson has been practicing the craft of spinning by drop spindle and on a wheel since childhood. She shares her techniques while in 18th century garb while illuminating the various methods colonists used to produce their own textiles. She will be available for questions...
Please join the NSCDA-MA for with Chandler Joshua Dummitt at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead House. Our special guest is Joshua Dummitt who will turns the house in to a 18th Century Candle maker home and shop. The Chandler will be selling 100% beeswax candles made in the 18th Century manner and explain the process of...
Please join the NSCDA-MA for Colonial Blacksmithing and Colonial Tailoring at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead House. Dean Rantz has been a "Practicing Blacksmith" since 1982. He operates, Rock Village Forge in Middleborough, Mass. Using traditional tools and techniques. He creates and recreates Hand forged-Iron work. The program is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and...
Step back in time to experience the life of a soldier in the American Revolution at a military encampment and living history on Saturday July 26, 2025 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The reenactment is part of Rev 250 and the celebration of Quincy 400, community-wide celebration of Quincy’s rich cultural and educational heritage....
Please join the NSCDA-MA for Art of Colonial Chocolate Making at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead House. Immerse yourself back in the 18th-century witnessing chocolate-making with Robert Lecce of Pewter Pot Fine Spiced Chocolates. You will be invited to sample chocolate and hot chocolate. Like what you sampled? Chocolate bars, and other items made by Robert Lecce will...
This year’s parade will step off at 6 p.m. at the corner of Hancock Street and Hannon Parkway in Quincy Center and head north along Hancock Street, turning onto Merrymount Parkway and wrap-up at Vietnam Veterans Drive and Adams Field. Tour of Quincy Homestead will take place from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
The Dorothy Quincy Homestead on August 24, 2024 welcomes back Zoe Lawson. The art of spinning is best learned by the young, and Zoe Lawson has been practicing the craft of spinning by drop spindle and on a wheel since childhood. She shares her techniques while in 18th century garb while illuminating the various methods...
The Dorothy Quincy Homestead's guest presenter is a representative from the Plimoth Patuxet Museum located in Plymouth. She will be teaching how to make corn husk dolls, from 11am to 2pm. The history of the corn husk doll dates back to Native American craftsmanship. It is unknown when the practice of making corn husk dolls began among...
Please join the NSCDA-MA for Art of Colonial Chocolate Making at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead House. Immerse yourself back in the 18th-century witnessing chocolate-making with Robert Lecce of Pewter Pot Fine Spiced Chocolates. You will be invited to sample chocolate and hot chocolate. Like what you sampled? Chocolate bars, and other items made by Robert Lecce will...
The Dorothy Quincy Homestead Celebrates Independence Day at 34 Butler Road, on June 29. Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch will be reading the Declaration of Independence at 10:30 AM. The National Parks Service have donated Red Coats for children to practice marching with a drummer and fifer to Revolutionary War music. In honor of the holiday...
Join the NSCDA-MA at Dorothy Quincy Homestead for a presentation on printmaking in Paul Revere's time. Andy Volpe is a printer and & "living historian". He studies and replicates the printing and drawing techniques of the Old Masters, engravings of Paul Revere and creates commemorative work for periods of American history. Mr. Volpe will show samples...
Please join us for a wonderful opportunity to not only see the Quincy Homestead garden and interiors, but also the to get together with other Dames who live in the following areas: Dedham, Westwood, Hingham, Cohasset, Norwell, and Scituate. Dames from other areas are, of course, very welcome. If rain occurs the area gathering will...
The NSCDA invites you to join us for a unique opportunity to tour the Dorothy Quincy Homestead at night.... by candlelight. Experience what night was like for people in the colonial period before electric or gas lighting. Hear the Quincy story from enactors playing the roles of the Reverend Samuel Sewall, Dorothy Flynt Quincy and...
Rescheduled from June 3, 2023! Please join us at the Dorothy Quincy Homestead for a Colonial printing demonstration. The event will be lead by Andrew Volpe of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill who will illustrate how newspapers and other documents were printed in Colonial days. Tours of the homestead will be running...
Quincy Homestead will be open for tours on August 19 from 11 am – 2 pm and will feature a spinning demonstration by Zoe Lawson. The Homestead was home to four generations of the Quincy family, including Dorothy Quincy, wife of John Hancock. Zoe Lawson acquired a passion for spinning at a early age. Her...
Henry Cooke, master tailor of Colonial dress, will present his trade at Quincy Homestead on Saturday, July 15 from 11-2. Cooke will discuss how men's and women's clothing was made, and the intersections of tailoring with fashion, the local economy and international trade that put English woolens on the backs of Colonial farmers and tradesmen....
The Dorothy Quincy Homestead looks forward to hosting Mayor Thomas P. Koch for a special reading of the Declaration of Independence on Saturday, July 1. This event in celebration of Independence Day will also feature a fife and drum performance, tours of the Homestead, and ice cream for all visitors. The reading will take place...