Celebrate Thanksgiving History at Island Farm's Fall Foodways

Posted By Matt Artz on November 16, 2012

Island Farm c.1847 in Manteo is hosting Island Foodways this month, a Thanksgiving event featuring historical interpreters demonstrating how an 1850s family would prepare and preserve foods for the coming winter months on the Outer Banks.

Island Foodways will be held from 10am to 4pm on Friday, Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 24 at Island Farm on Roanoke Island.

Admission is $6 for adults and free for ages 5 and under.

Those who bring a nonperishable canned good to be donated to the local Food Pantry will receive $1 off admission.

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Posted by Matt Artz

Matt Artz was a lead reporter and photographer for 'The Coastland Times' newspaper from 2000 to 2009, and has been published in the Outer Banks Sentinel, North Beach Sun, Outer Banks Milepost, among others, before launching OBX Entertainment, NC Film News, and Halloween Daily News in 2012. Matt and Sue Artz are also the founders of the annual Outer Banks Halloween Parade and the Halloween International Film Festival.