Challenge
Constable Hall Family Challenge
Join our Facebook Group, Constable Hall Challenge, and enjoy fun family activities like the Constables would have participated in. It can be done virtually, in person, or both. You can email us for a brochure, print it off our Facebook page or click here for the new 2024 Constable Hall Challenge Brochure . One of the challenges, is the Outdoor Scavenger Hunt. Click here 2024 Scavenger Hunt for this year’s “Hunt”. When you have completed ten challenges, you will receive some great prizes, be recognized at our yearly dinner, and can help raise the flag next season!
Join us on Sunday, December 22nd from 1-4:00 for an “Old-Fashioned Christmas” celebration. We will have caroling on the veranda, s’mores, hot cocoa, cider, different crafts, (both new and “Constable Style”) and Hunter Hack returns with horse and sleigh rides! (Weather permitting, it may be carriage rides.) Don’t forget to dress for the weather for lots of old-fashioned fun!
What fun we had with our Haunted Trails and Trick or Treating, and not to mention the wonderful Carriage Rides provided by Hunter Hack Farm in Boonville! Thanks for coming and see you next year!
It may be getting colder, but we are still having lots of fun at the Hall! We enjoyed painting Santas with Bree, and learned the connections to the Hall with “Twas the Night Before Christmas”. We also created fairy houses with lots of natural materials, and Carriage Rides, Haunted Trails and Trick or Treating will be on the 26th. Join us!!
What fun we had celebrating the Hall’s 75th Anniversary as a house museum!
Thank you very much to the Chris Thomas Smoke Dancers. It was a wonderful entertaining and educational performance. We hope to have you again next year!
Colonial Color Run and Costume Contest!!!
Join us on Sunday, July 28th at 9:00 for a fun and feisty Colonial Color Run! Run or walk the mile + trail and get “colorized” as you go!! Sponsored in part with the Village of Constableville. $15.00 entry fee will also get you swag bag with a colonial wig, T-shirt and glasses. Dress in colonial costume and enter a costume contest as well!
Join us for Christmas in July!!
July 20th from 10-4:00, we will be celebrating Christmas In July with lots of fun family activities throughout the day. People of all ages are invited to join us for some or all of the day. We start off from 10-11:00 with “Kids Yoga, Constable Style” with Mary Ellen Platz. She has lots of fun poses to go with the fun facts of the Constables as well as many Christmas poses. We even end with some trail running! There will also be craft stations, music, historical games and activities, wood block printmaking, cross stitch, etc. So plan on joining us, and meet your challenges all in one day!
We had a wonderful evening for our Birdwalk with Linda Gibbs from the Tug Hill Land Trust. Beautiful weather, great turnout, and lots of fun!
We had a great time putting together our bluebird house kits. That counts for one of the two events for your “challenge” if you are new to this!
You can let us know what you have done with photos on our Facebook page, email, or send us a letter. (It can be as “old school” or “new school” as you like.) Just a few of the activities listed are an outdoor scavenger hunt, Christmas activities, crafts, games and sports, etc. Meet the challenge and get some cool stuff, help raise the flag for our spring opening, as well as be recognized at our end of the year event!
Free horse drawn carriage rides are a great way to check off TWO of your challenges! Join us on October 28th for lots of fun.
Join us for a wonderful “Colonial Color Run and Costume Contest” at the Hall on July 30th. The Constable Hall Association, in partnership with Constableville for Tomorrow is excited to be holding this delightful fun-filled event for young and old. Registration will start at 8:00 and the “Run/Walk” will start at 9:00. It will entail a one mile course, with 4 color stations. The $10.00 registration fee includes a swag bag containing a shirt, gray wig, medallion, and more, etc. Colonial garb is encouraged (white wigs, tri-cornered hats, time period glasses, etc.) and participants will be “colored” with red, white and blue! Participants are encouraged to also bring some loose black tea to be included to our donation to the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. (The Boston Tea Harbor Museum is having a 250th celebration and “dumping tea” in the harbor to commemorate it.) We will even have some quill pens to use to put their “John Hancock” on a poster for it. And if that isn’t enough, there will also be a Colonial Costume Contest! It will be a fun “color run with a colonial twist”! The link to register is on our Facebook page and here. Colonial Color Run Registration
Boys and girls up to age 12 are invited to the Hall for a lacrosse shoot-out! This involves shots on the goal from different distances, and the ones with the best aim wins!!! We will have ages 8 and under shooting at ten yards, ages 9/10 will shoot from fifteen yards and ages 11/12 will shoot from 20 yards. Prizes will be available to the top three shots. The goal will be set up on the front lawn, next to the field where the Oneida Nation used to camp! Just $10.00 to enter, and the cost includes a tour of the Hall. Contact the Hall for more details or to sign up.