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Eric Sloane and the New England Apple, Culinary Style!

What a wonderful time we all had Saturday, October 8th! Chef Anne Gallagher helped us to continue to celebrate the New England Apple. During the year, we have celebrated the theme of “Eric Sloane and the New England Apple” in a variety of creative ways: in the spring, we celebrated in “live form” by working with Peter Montgomery to plant an heirloom variety orchard now known as the “Noah Blake Orchard”, in the summer we celebrated the apple artistically during the annual art exhibit and sale by focusing the artists’ attention on the apple as a source of inspiration, and this past Saturday we celebrated the apple in a culinary way with Chef Anne.
Chef Anne created a number of amazing dishes, including some delicious fresh-baked apple muffins and scrumptious mini burgers grilled on apple wood served with cheddar and apple salsa. We had some scions from the Seek-No-Further apple tree (see Eric Sloane’s A Reverence for Wood for his thoughts on the tree) that were chipped into dry smoking wood that Anne used throughout the day. Everything Anne served was DELICIOUS!
Our thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the New England Apple with us!

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Our thanks to Melissa Roth Cherniske, who sent to me this photo of her son Aiden and my daughter Edith pressing apples with Jeff Bischoff on October the 8th.  Melissa’s family is delightful – Aiden is a true gentleman and a very interesting young man, and her husband Darrell is incredibly helpful to us during and after our events.  Our thanks to your wonderful family!

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The Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum has some exciting news to share with all of our friends and supporters who have helped us so much since our formation as a group.  Please see our latest and most ambitious project to date:  The Noah Blake Cabin.

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October 8th Event

In Celebration of the New England Apple

The Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum will be hosting a FREE event “In Celebration of the New England Apple” on Saturday, October 8th from 11 to 1:30 as a culmination of the 2016 programming season Eric Sloane and the New England Apple. Come taste the best of what the region has to offer when chef and food advocate Anne Gallagher cooks up some tasty apple treats followed by mini burgers grilled on apple wood served with cheddar and apple salsa. Anne deftly navigates the world of food sourcing, culinary innovation and client expectation. She layers good choices on top of unexpected choices to create dishes that are beautiful and authentic. While this event is free, you must RSVP by calling the museum.

Anne is a graduate of Natural Gourmet culinary School in New York City and has been instrumental in establishing youth programs and classes in Connecticut that offer education in healthy cooking, the importance of local ingredients and ethical food practices. Whether making dinner for your family or an elegant party, flavorful, thoughtful food that is designed for each occasion is the goal. This is exactly what Anne will be creating at the Eric Sloane Museum. Please call (860) 927-3849 and leave your contact information to register for this event.

It is the mission of the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the museum and its collections, to encourage and promote visitation and to enhance the public’s appreciation of the legacy of artist and author Eric Sloane.

The Eric Sloane Museum is located in Kent, Connecticut on Route 7 (31 Kent-Cornwall Road) just north of the village of Kent and the intersections of Route 7 and 341.

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Our thanks to participating artists at the Eric Sloane Museum

Our thanks to each and every artist who participated in the 2016 art exhibit and sale, held in the Eric Sloane Museum. With your participation, we were able to fill the gallery space with your wonderful and varied “apple” art. This art show allows us to follow the mission of the museum and connect to Eric Sloane, his interests and work. Apple trees were frequently included in his artwork and he wrote about them in a few of his books.
 
We hope that you will consider participating again in 2017. Next year’s theme is “Noah Blake and his Wonderful Cabin”. The Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum plan to restore the cabin in 2018 and next year there will be events leading to that restoration process. For inspiration, you may want to see Eric Sloane’s 1974 book Diary of An Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805.
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Our next event is Saturday June 18th – Talk by Peter Montgomery, noted authority on Connecticut heirloom apples, covering the history, development, and current restoration efforts concerning Connecticut’s heirloom apple trees.  11 a.m. – 1 p.m.  This is a free event sponsored by the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum, but you must RSVP.  Please call the museum at 860-927-3849.  Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum.