Threshing & Pressing:
19th-Century Farming Tools & Techniques Jonathan Hosmer House
300 Main Street, Acton
2-4pm
The Acton Historical Society, farmer Bryon Clemence of Burroughs Farm in Boxborough, and the ABFM are sponsoring an event that joins interests in farming, history, and real, local food. Join us to see wheat threshed and winnowed, and apples pressed for cider — both powered by people rather than motors!
Bryon Clemence harvests wheat from his 1848 farm, and will demonstrate threshing "the old-fashioned way" on the Acton Historical Society's antique (1850) thresher. And an intrepid AHS member will demonstrate an antique (1875) apple press; if you're strong enough, perhaps you can take a turn!
In addition, AHS docents will offer displays and demonstrations of other 19th-century farm implements, give tours of the Hosmer House, and offer refreshments. Donations are happily accepted! "Threshing & Pressing" will take place rain or shine. Parking is available on site as well as in nearby parking lots.
Larry Kerpelman
South Acton Congregational Church
35 School St, Acton
2-4 pm
Larry C. Kerpelman is a former Treasurer and Board member of the Acton Historical society and author of the newly published book Pieces Missing: A Family's Journey of Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury. The book provides a deeply moving account of his wife’s traumatic brain injury sustained from a freak fall while jogging, her two hospitalizations, her neurosurgery, and the months of rehabilitation required to recover the pieces missing from her speech, memory, confidence, and joy of life. He shares the toll her injury takes on their family while illustrating the important role family, friends, and community play in her recovery. The book will be available for sale at his presentation at a special presentation price, with a portion of the proceeds going to the society. Larry will also be available to sign your copy.
Larry C. Kerpelman’s writing has appeared in a wide array of publications, ranging from the The Boston Globe and Smithsonian.com to The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the recipient of the Lamplighter Award from the New England Society for Healthcare Communications and is the author of the book Activists and Nonactivists: A Psychological Study of American College Students. A Ph.D. in clinical psychology, his career has spanned research, teaching, and consulting in human behavior and in public policy issues. Advance praise for Pieces Missing: A Family's Journey of Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury: ". . . captures the terror and ambiguity of his wife Joanie’s sudden brain injury, as well as the setbacks and cumulative steps of treatment that led to her recovery.”-- Janet Cromer, RN, MA, LMHC, Author of Professor Cromer Learns to Read.
“This book is at once both inspiring and informative.” -- Jo M. Solet, PhD, OTR/L, Harvard Medical School
“By blending journal and e-mail entries with a lucid explanatory text, [Kerpelman] draws the reader into the midst of this engrossing tale [and] makes many keen observations about the
American medical care system, using Joan's experience as telling and appropriate examples."-- Henry Vaillant, MD, Emerson Hospital
