Metal at the MillDan Rion Memorial Antique Engine Jamboree

EAST MEREDITH — Join Hanford Mills Museum for two days on September 6-7 from 10 AM until 4 PM for our Metal at the Mill Event. This multi-day event will feature the Dan Rion Memorial Antique Engine Jamboree, and the museum has invited regional collectors of historic engines, tractors, doodlebugs, vehicles, and other machines to display their collections. Hanford Mills staff and volunteers will also display and demonstrate some of the historic engines and machinery that are in our own collection, including our 1947 Ford truck. If you are interested in exhibiting at this event, please check the event webpage at hanfordmills.org or contact Liz Brown at lizb@hanfordmills.org.

A variety of exhibitors and vendors will join us for the event. Representatives from the New York Power Authority’s Blenheim-Gilboa Visitor Center will be educating visitors about their hydroelectric plant with a STEM activity. Union Grove Distillery will be selling their products and offering product tastings, and representatives from the SUNY Delhi Sustainability program will be on-site to provide information about their program and sustainable practices. Children’s activities will be happening during both days at our Learning Lab. 

Food products will be available for sale as well. Helen’s Little Kitchen food truck will be on-site, vending breakfast and lunch. Brookside Maple & Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that raises beef and produces maple syrup and other maple products. Visitors are also welcome to bring their own lunch and snacks and enjoy all food at our picnic tables.

Stoddard Hollow String band will be playing music from noon until 3 PM on Saturday.

Additionally, Hanford Mills will be offering workshops throughout the remainder of our 2025 season, which runs through October 15. On September 20 and 21st we will offer a coopering workshop. The workshop, which will run from 10 AM until 3:30 PM both days will be offered by Bob Allers. Learn the essential techniques of coopering as you construct a wooden bucket or mug. Spots are limited. Registration is $150 for HMM members, and $175 for nonmembers.

Cook (and eat) as locals of 1900s Delaware County would have, during our woodfired cookstove workshop on October 4 from 9 AM until 2:30 PM, led by Pamela Cooley. Participants will prepare and eat recipes from The Bovina Cook Book: A Collection of Choice Recipes. This workshop is intended for participants ages 15 and up. Registration cost is $55 for HMM members and $70 for non-members.

Check our website, hanfordmills.org, or our social media channels for updates on our Metal at the Mill 2-day event and our upcoming workshops. 

About Hanford Mills Museum 

Experience a story of innovation, ingenuity and entrepreneurship at a historic working mill site.  Sheltered in a valley in the northwestern Catskills of New York, Hanford Mills Museum offers insights into the past and lessons about the relationships between people, the things they make, and the places they live. As one of only a handful of operating water-powered mills, the museum has earned a place on both the National and NYS Registers of Historic Places. 

Hanford Mills is located at 51 County Highway 12 in East Meredith, at the intersection of Delaware County Routes 10 & 12, just 10 miles from Oneonta, and 15 miles from Delhi. For more information, visit hanfordmills.org or call 607-278-5744.