Kings County Museum

The Kings County Museum Summer of Crafts
2022-07-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
We are excited to share a variety of artistic projects for your child to enjoy, including numerous sensory-based crafts and activities. This 3-day program takes place on three consecutive Wednesday afternoons from 1pm – 3pm: on July 27th, August 3rd, and August 10th.
Each date has unique crafts and activities planned, so your child can either attend a specific activity that they are interested in, or they can attend all three. Our guided activities make it easy to follow instructions so kids can spend their time on the fun stuff. If your child prefers to work independently, or if your child would like a little extra help, we are happy to accommodate their needs.
To participate in a single session, the sign-up and participation fee is $5.00 per child. To participate in all three sessions, the sign-up and participation fee is $10.00.
Wednesday, July 27th, 1pm – 3pm: Session 1
Adoption Day: Rock Pet Painting
Our first activity is a hands-on painting craft. We will be making Rock Pets, which
could be anything from your child’s favourite animal to something made entirely
from their imagination. If they would like to make more than one, that is entirely
fine too! Once we’ve completed painting, each crafter gets to fill out an “adoption
certificate” for their new pets.
Fan-tastic Fruits: Fruit Slice Fans
For any fast crafters, we have a secondary activity to keep them busy and having fun. We’ll be making fans from paper plates and popsicle sticks, designing them to look just like a slice of watermelon, orange, apple, or any kind of fruit they like best! Not only do these fans look cool, but they’ll keep you cool during the hot summer.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIAAPPivtC1Slp7mTYfd5Zap2FOQxiOq/view?usp=sharing

Knotty Knitters Club
2022-07-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Enjoy a good yarn???? Join us at the Kings County Museum for a bi-weekly knitting club
beginning on Tuesday, June 28th. Our knitting club is a great way to meet new people, and to share a hobby you love with others who love it too!
We welcome new, intermediate, and advanced knitters and crochet artists to our meetings. No sign-up required. Free-will offering appreciated.
June 28th | July 12th | July 26 | August 9th from 2 pm until 4 pm
July 12, July 26, August 9

A Garden Party
2022-07-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Prescott House Museum, 1633 Starrs Point Road, Starrs Point, Nova Scotia, B4N 2E2, Canada
Join us for an old-fashioned Sunday stroll through the gardens at Prescott House. This enchanting landscape hasn’t changed since it was lovingly restored in the 1930’s. Acacia Grove was the country estate of Charles Prescott, a wealthy Halifax merchant. This magnificent Georgian home is characteristic of its period, with some elements of the early 20th century.
Join members of the Kings Historical Society for fun and refreshments on July 24, from 2 until 4 p.m. By donation.
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Knotty Knitters
2022-07-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum

KCM Book Club
2022-07-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Love to read? We do, too! Join us for a biweekly book club starting July 7 at the Kings County Museum. We will be reading from a variety of genres. Sign up at kcmbookclub@gmail.com and we’ll send you a list of books to choose from and then we’ll get together for snacks and chat!

The Kings County Museum Summer of Crafts
2022-06-29 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax)
We are excited to share a variety of artistic projects for your child to enjoy, including numerous sensory-based crafts and activities. This 3-day program takes place on three consecutive Wednesday afternoons from 1pm – 3pm: on July 27th, August 3rd, and August 10th.
Each date has unique crafts and activities planned, so your child can either attend a specific activity that they are interested in, or they can attend all three. Our guided activities make it easy to follow instructions so kids can spend their time on the fun stuff. If your child prefers to work independently, or if your child would like a little extra help, we are happy to accommodate their needs.
To participate in a single session, the sign-up and participation fee is $5.00 per child. To participate in all three sessions, the sign-up and participation fee is $10.00.

Wednesday, August 10, 1pm – 3pm: Session 3
Marionette Makers: Paper-Bag Puppets
The last activity of our program is puppet making. Crafters can choose to make any puppet they would like: their favourite animals, a person, or even themselves! Whatever they choose to make, they’ll surely bring their puppet to life with the variety of materials and supplies we have available. We’ll also prepare some designs that can be simply assembled, customized, as well as suggestions in case anyone wants some extra help. Once the puppets have been created, crafters will complete a personality form to get to know their puppets better. This activity also includes a section for them to design their puppet’s own performance stage on paper.
*along with our crafting activities, we have a number of museum activities for kids to participate in and keep them busy: Wordsearches with historical terms, scavenger hunts throughout the museum, colouring pages of local animals, and much more.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIAAPPivtC1Slp7mTYfd5Zap2FOQxiOq/view?usp=sharing

Kings Historical Society Annual General Meeting
2022-06-28 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Kings Historical Society’s AGM will take place on June 28 at 7:30 p.m.. Everyone is invited to bring along their best story and vintage finds, there will be a show and tell following the meeting.

Knotty Knitters
2022-06-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Enjoy a good yarn???? Join us at the Kings County Museum for a bi-weekly knitting club
beginning on Tuesday, June 28th. Our knitting club is a great opportunity to meet new people, and to share a hobby you love with others who love it too!
We welcome new, intermediate, and advanced knitters and crochet artists to our meetings. No sign-up required. Free-will offering appreciated.
June 28th | July 12th | July 26 | August 9th from 2 pm until 4 pm

Abraham Gesner the Lure of the Rocks and a Burning Ambition-- book launch
2022-06-01 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
The debt and bad management that drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Chipman Corner in 1825, became a stroke of luck and innovation. After leaving Kings County, he spent two years doing medical courses in London hospitals. In the great metropolis, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending various lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. When he later returned to Nova Scotia, he imitated procedures which he had observed while abroad and experimented with “cracking” coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced “kerosene” – an illuminating gas and an oil – which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry.
Author and retired professor, Elizabeth Haigh shares highlights from her book. Until 2006, she taught History of Science at St. Mary’s University, and was an adjunct professor of history at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Solo Hiking Adventures in Kings County
2022-05-31 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Jeff Newbury, a local educator, hiking enthusiast and natural history buff will discuss possible adventures close to home at the May membership meeting of the Kings Historical Society. All are welcome! Meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.

William Forsyth: Land of Hopes and Dreams
2022-05-13 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum

Focus on Nature
2022-05-03 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Richard Stern is an avid nature photographer. He will be showing highlights of his work and offering tips and techniques for capturing nature in a special presentation on May 3. Hosted by the Kings Historical Society. Members of the public are welcome to attend,
Richard Stern will share his photography tips for capturing nature.

Genealogy 101
2022-04-26 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Halifax)
If you have always wanted to explore your family history but don’t know where to begin, this series is for you! Learn the basics about the various resources and technology available, as well as the techniques and practices of compiling sound research. Cost $100 for six weekly classes, 1:30-3:00 p.m., (April 12, 19, 26, and May 3,10, and 17) at the Kings County Museum. Pre- registration is required and fees include a free one-year membership to the Society. To register, call 902-678-6237, or email info@kingscountymuseum.ca

Genealogy 101
2022-04-19 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-04-12 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
If you have always wanted to explore your family history but don’t know where to begin, this series is for you! Learn the basics about the various resources and technology available, as well as the techniques and practices of compiling sound research. Cost $100 for six weekly classes, 1:30-3 p.m., (April 12, 19, 26, and May 3,10, and 17) at the Kings County Museum. Pre- registration is required and fees include a free one-year membership to the Society. To register, call 902-678-6237, or email info@kingscountymuseum.ca

The Community and Family History Committee meeting
2022-04-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
As we emerge, cautiously, from the Covid 19 pandemic, things are beginning to look and feel more “normal”. The Community and Family History Committee of the Kings Historical Society has not met for over two years. It’s time to get back to work! We are calling a meeting for Wednesday, April 13 at 11:00 in the Genealogy Room of the Museum. This is an invitation for committee members and other interested people to come to this meeting. All are welcome.

Pysanky for Ukraine
2022-03-26 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
This workshop is full. Pysanky is the Ukrainian tradition of painting eggs as a way to welcome spring and the new harvest. The tradition holds that as long as these colorful eggs are being painted, good will prevail over evil. Twila Robar-DeCoste will be teaching this paint technique at the Kings County Museum, on March 26 from 10 to 12:30 p.m., as a fundraiser for the Red Cross Relief Fund for Ukraine. Cost is $25 per person and includes supplies and a donation for the Red Cross Relief Fund. Workshop is full, waiting list

Valley Ghost Walks
2021-10-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2021-10-01 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Join Jerome the Gravekeeper and his ghostly friends at the Kings County Museum for an evening of family friendly historical productions of Ghost Talks.
Space is limited, reserve your tickets!

Amateur radio in Kings County
2021-10-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Kings Historical Society’s Monthly Meeting plus Al Penney, of Annapolis Valley Amateur Radio Club.
Would you like to talk to astronauts in the International Space Station? Make friends around the world? Build electronic projects? Assist your community in times of disaster? Keep in touch when traveling off the beaten path? If so, then welcome to wonderful world of Amateur Radio!

Spooky night at the Museum
2021-10-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax)
Lou, the teller of tales (AKA Maynard Stevens) will set the stage for a night of classic tales and historic tidbits in time for Halloween. “Did our ancestors believe in Witches?” Bria Stokesbury explores this question with a special emphasis on the New England Planters. And historian Dan Conlin will be here with tales of the unexplained.

Kings County Museum's Harvest Fest Show and Shine
2021-10-09 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Halifax) | Kentville Centre Square, Kentville, Canada
The Kings Historical Society is hosting a classic car show in Centre Square in Kentville. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. car show from 10-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 9. Open to all vintage and classic cars, prizes presented for Best in Show, People’s Choice and the top 10 vehicles chosen by drivers.
This fundraiser will benefit the Kings County Museum.

Clary Croft
2021-10-02 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Beloved folklorist, storyteller, and performer spins the tale of his fifty-year career in the arts in Nova Scotia, featuring The Privateers, Helen Creighton, and more.
“I have led a charmed life. I know that, and I am grateful every day.”— Clary Croft

Space is limited, reserve your tickets by calling 902-678-6237, or emailing info@kingscountymuseum.ca

Marilyn Jones author reading
2021-09-28 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
Kings Historical Society’s Monthly Meeting plus Aunt Toni’s Diary: Author reading and discussion about the Nova Scotia Sanatorium.
“From the time of its opening in 1904 until its closing in 1977, the Nova Scotia Sanatorium was a unique and valuable treatment institution for those suffering from the dreaded disease, tuberculosis. Referred to in earlier times as ‘galloping consumption,’ it was usually fatal.”
Marilyn Jones
Aunt Toni’s Diary is an account of one woman’s time at ‘The San.’

Valley Ghost Walk
2021-09-02 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax)

Meet shalan joudry
2021-07-20 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Kings County Museum
shalan joudry is a Mi’kmaw poet, playwright, oral storyteller and ecologist. Using her theatrical background, shalan brings Mi’kmaw stories to a new generation of listeners, as well as recounting personally crafted narratives that follow Mi’kmaw storying custom.
Her first book of poetry, Generations Re-merging, was published by Gaspereau Press (2014) and her second book, Elapultiek, was published by Pottersfield Press (2019). Her second collection of poetry, Waking Ground, was published by Gaspereau Press (2020) and was recently shortlisted for the J.M. Abrahms Atlantic Poetry Award, the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award and the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
shalan lives in her home territory of Kespukwitk (southwest Nova Scotia) with her family in their community of L’sətkuk (Bear River First Nation), where she is currently writing, creating and finishing a PhD in Mi’kmaw language.

Please fill out the form below to register!

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The Kings County Museum will be following COVID-19 protocols at all events.
Please do not attend if you say yes to any of the following;
1. You are feeling unwell, or have symptoms of COVID-19
2. You have been in contact with someone who is a probable case of COVID-19 or is feeling unwell.
3. You have travelled outside the province of Nova Scotia in the past 14 days.
All those who attend will be required to social distance and to wear masks.

Author Reading: Linda Pineo
2021-07-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | Kings County Museum
History told by those who lived it
Berwick author records oral history of Kings County
Berwick author Linda Pineo will be visiting the Kings County Museum on July 6, from 2 pm until 4 pm and sharing stories from her latest collection of local stories, Digging Up Roots.
For more than 20 years, Pineo has been gathering the oral history of the Annapolis Valley. She talks to local people about their lives and records their stories in their own words.
Like Pineo’s previous two books, this new collection of Kings County stories are told by the people who lived the experience. Stories include personal accounts of the Kentville Sanatorium, and tales about the North Mountain Railroad.
Her previous books, Caught In Time and Saving Lives, cover a number of Kings County stories, including the birth of the Western Kings Memorial Hospital, a wartime shipwreck off Long Island, and a varied assortment from the lives of the farming community, including rural farm vacations.
To attend Linda’s July 6 book talk at the Kings County Museum, or receive a zoom link, email info@kingscountymuseum.ca, or call 902-678-6237.

The Kings County Museum will be following COVID-19 protocols at all events.
Please do not attend if you say yes to any of the following;
1. You are feeling unwell, or have symptoms of COVID-19
2. You have been in contact with someone who is a probable case of COVID-19 or is feeling unwell.
3. You have travelled outside the province of Nova Scotia in the past 14 days.
All those who attend will be required to social distance and to wear masks.

Seven Sacred Teachings
2020-11-28 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Kings County Museum
An invitation to explore the Ancient Teachings of the Mi’kmaq
Over two days you will become immersed in Mi’kmaw Ancient Teachings
Smudge, Tree Connecting, Guided Meditation, Drumming and Tobacco Ceremony
Facilitated by Carolyn Landry
Of Redfeather’s Native Art
$70 for two day workshop
Limited registration Purchase tickets HERE
902-678-6237
info@kingscountymuseum.ca
May 28 & May 29
10 AM -4 PM
View two videos on Carolyn’s projects below
Sisters Talking About Seven Sacred Teachings
Youth and Elders Project 2020

Seven Sacred Teachings
2020-11-27 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Kings County Museum
An invitation to explore the Ancient Teachings of the Mi’kmaq
Over two days you will become immersed in Mi’kmaw Ancient Teachings
Smudge, Tree Connecting, Guided Meditation, Drumming and Tobacco Ceremony
Facilitated by Carolyn Landry
Of Redfeather’s Native Art
$70 (2 days)
Limited registration Purchase tickets HERE
902-678-6237
info@kingscountymuseum.ca
May 28th and May 29th
10 AM -4 PM
View two short videos of Carolyn’s work below
Sisters Talking About Seven Sacred Teachings
Youth and Elders Project 2020

TALK: The History of The Masonic Lodge in Kentville With Sandy Buchan
2020-11-24 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Kings County Museum
Monthly Meeting plus
The History of The Masonic Lodge in Kentville
With Sandy Buchan
Limited Seating. Reserve your seat. Masks required.
902-678-6237
Also on ZOOM – contact the museum for the link.
info@kingscountymuseum.ca
It all started in 1869 with a growing population, a railway station, and a group of like-minded men with a vision to make their community the best it could be. 150 Years later, the Kentville Lodge continues to meet, and participate in local events and philanthropic pursuits.
This talk attempts to draw back the curtain and offer a glimpse into the story and symbolism behind this historic and fascinating organization. Join us on this journey of exploration to learn how modern masons maintain a solid foundation built on past tradition while trying to thrive and continue their good works in a rapidly changing and challenging modern world.
