Home school families from across Southern New England gathered at Coggeshall Farm Museum on Thursday, May 5, for a day-long educational event that drew nearly 200 people to the living history museum. Participants experienced some of the daily tasks of 18th-century farm families, including hearthcooking, cheese making, candle dipping, wood processing, blacksmithing, gardening, wool carding and sheep herding.

In 2015, Coggeshall Farm Museum hosted 3,000 students on educational field trips. This spring, school groups will visit the farm nearly every week day through the end of the school year. Coggeshall is now booking field trips for summer camps, summer school and the fall season. For more information on Coggeshall's education program, visit www.coggeshallfarm.org or emailc.elder@coggeshallfarm.org.

Coggeshall Farm Museum is a nonprofit living history museum depicting the lives of Rhode Island's tenant farmers in the late 18th century. Coggeshall is located at 1 Colt Drive, Bristol, off Poppasquash Road.

Next up: The farm will host it's Fiber Festival on Saturday May 21, starting at 10 a.m.