Focus on Hanley Farm – December 2018/January 2019

Thank you for sharing your holidays with us at Hanley Farm! Many of you visited the Scarecrow Festival and made Scarecrows to protect your gardens and fields and the farm’s Haunted Field Drama, “The Lady in Black,” was sold out all three nights! Families held their children close as they were led by lantern light through the haunted corn field in search of the Lady’s secret. And in November, you made holiday wreaths using natural materials clipped from Hanley Farm’s bushes, vines and trees; wreaths to grace your doors as a sign of welcoming to friends and families!

We’re wrapping up the Holiday Season with a tour of the beautifully-decorated Hanley Farmhouse. On December 26, costumed docents will guide you through the Hanley home and bring history to life with holiday tales and stories about the rich history of the Hanley family and farm. Three generations of Hanley’s lived in this lovely two-story farmhouse, beginning with Michael and Martha Hanley when they built this house in the late 19th century. The family’s holiday traditions endured to the 1980s, through Michael and Martha’s children, and then their three granddaughters, Martha, Mary and Claire.

We look forward to seeing you December 26 at Hanley Farm, 1053 Hanley Road, Central Point; house tours are $5 for non-members, $3 for SOHS members, and run from 10:00am-3:0 pm.

SOHS Windows in Time Series, December 5 & 12, “Cameras, Compass, Castle and Vines: The Legacy of Peter Britt.”— Guest speaker Stephanie Butler, SOHS Curator of Collections, will share Peter Britt’s history and talk about his legacy that lives on in the photographs and landscapes of Southern Oregon, as well as his contributions to Southern Oregon’s economy, culture and horticulture.

Presentations are noon-1:00pm on December 5, at Medford Library, 205 S. Central Avenue; and December 12, at Ashland Library, 410 Siskiyou Boulevard. Windows in Time is a series of free monthly lectures sponsored by the Southern Oregon Historical Society and the Jackson County Library Services.