FEATURED EVENTS

The 43rd Santa’s Run will look different, but it’s a real in-person event. One of the few in CT. A great family event with a festive holiday spirit! The race has been postponed to Sunday, May 23. There will be a rolling start, each wave 5 minutes apart beginning at 11:00 a.m. Select the wave time you wish to start when you register.

For many at Old Sturbridge Village, the first whiff of spring isn’t the aroma of spring flowers – it’s the smell of wood smoke and maple syrup, a sure sign that the sap is rising and spring is on the way. Join us for “Maple Days” select dates in March, when the Village’s working sugar camp demonstrates maple sugaring as it was done in early 19th-century New England. See the entire sugar-making process, from tapping the trees to “sugaring off,” and learn why maple sugar was more commonly used than maple syrup in early New England. Costumed historians will also cook period foods made with maple products and the potter and cooper will make maple related items.