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Castles of New Castle House Tour

Sunday, October 6 - Buy Tickets

Fair Ridge Cemetery Tour

Sunday, October 27 - Buy Tickets

Sunday, October 6

Tickets $75 members / $100 non-members

Visit inside five local, iconic homes, representing a wide variety of periods and styles:

· Historic 19^th century concrete barn converted into a home that has changed little in the last 130 years

· Grand “hilltopper” mansion in the neoclassical Beaux-Arts style of the turn of the 20^th century

· Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in the pioneering Usonia cooperative community

· Modern estate that offers views of Long Island Sound and New York City, plus an outstanding collection of Asian art

· Converted early 19^th century farm carriage house transformed into a charming, personal modern home

Explore the rich history and stunning architecture of these tastefully curated residences - Get your tickets now before they sell out!

On this fascinating tour of the Fair Ridge Cemetery’s historic sections, New Castle Town Historian Gray Williams will talk about some of the prominent New Castle families that since 1867 have chosen this non-sectarian community cemetery for their final resting place. The monuments that mark their graves will be given vivid context through photographs of their homes and businesses, plus portraits of several of them. Come and meet your (former) neighbors, now permanently residing at one of our historic landmarks.

Buy your tickets for Sunday, October 27^th for 1pm, 2pm or 3pm.

See Our Collection on CatalogIt

To make our collection more accessible to the public, we recently joined CatalogIt, a widely used platform for managing and sharing museum collections. We have started with scanning and uploading the paintings from our Glimpses of New Castle's Past: Pictures by Local Artists exhibition.

Our Collections Team is busily working to digitize and catalog more of our collection to make it widely available.

Greeley House Apples

By Gray Williams

When the Greeley family lived in the house at 100 King Street, which was then called Main Street, there was an apple tree at the uphill end of the porch, and in early fall the Greeley daughters, Ida and Gabrielle, picked apples from the rooftop balcony outside their bedroom. In 2000, soon after the New Castle Historical Society moved into the Greeley House, an apple tree sapling was planted in the same location, and a second one of another variety was planted in the garden to provide cross pollination. These soon grew to maturity, and for several years have borne fruit. This year we had a particularly large crop, especially from the tree by the front porch.

The two varieties are modern, disease-resistant improvements of traditional ones: MacFree from McIntosh and Jonafree from Jonathan. McIntosh apples remain popular for their sweet flavor. The far more tart Jonathans are mainly suitable for cooking, but with enough added sugar have a strong apple tang. Both make wonderful pies, as some of our members who have tried them attest.

Apple sauce and apple pies from the Greeley House trees will be on sale at the Fair Ridge Cemetery Tour on October 27. The freshly made pies must be ordered in advance. To reserve yours, send an email to president@newcastlehs.org.

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