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  Picnic Napkins

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Most of our craft projects at Beekman 1802 are the result of needing to find a solution to a problem at hand.   Need to create a quick placecard?  Use twigs and acorns.  A quick and fragrant candle votive?  Hollow out one half of an orange rind. When recently planning an outdoor feast to conclude a [...]

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  A Mark on History

  BY:Josh and Brent

    We find lots of things to inspire us at Beekman Farm, but sometimes inspiration comes from the places we visit and the people we meet. At the age of 9, J.C. Hall became a salesman for the California Perfume Company (which later became Avon), selling cosmetics, soaps, and lemon extract door-to-door for a commission [...]

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  Pretty, Unforgettable

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? How many perfectly pretty rooms have you seen?   Every design website, every lifestyle magazine, TV show, and store window display shows us how “pretty” a room can be.  But out of all of those pretty rooms you’ve seen, how many do you “remember”? That’s [...]

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  Victorian Rose Petals

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Sometimes very simple and easy crafts turn out the most beautifully (or perhaps we think they’re exceptionally beautiful because the are very simple, easy and require very little clean-up) It’s no secret that our decorating style tends toward the spare and necessary rather than the overly-adorned, but when Brent thought the Mercantile display of our [...]

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  Brent’s List for January

  BY:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  As many of you know, Brent’s famous for making lists for me. I thought I’d share with you a few of the things he wants me to accomplish at the farm this month. The combination of getting so many lists along with being genetically lazy has made me a sort of expert at chore shortcuts. [...]

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  Christmas Wishes That Last the Ages.

  BY:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Some people who saw our Country Living Holiday feature noticed the collection of vintage holiday post cards lining our dining room mantle. This was something we did our very first Christmas at the Beekman when we had few furnishings, and even fewer decorations. I remembered the stack of various holiday post cards in the attic [...]

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  Christmas in the Country

  BY:Josh and Brent

  William Beekman was one of the biggest merchants in upstate New York and knew the importance of decking the halls for the holidays, and we try to live up to his standards even today. We hope these images of The Beekman at Christmas inspires joy and celebration for your own holiday To see more images [...]

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  Aural Decor

  BY:Josh and Brent

  One of the easiest (and cheapest) ways to decorate any space is by filling it with music.   Using our laptop computer and wireless speakers, we can set up a sound scape throughout the house with just the touch of the button.  Guests are often humorously called to breakfast with the “Call To The Cows” section [...]

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  A Black Christmas

  BY:Josh and Brent

  Walking down Fifth Avenue to admire the windows has always been a holiday pilgrimage, so is there any doubt that this being the first Christmas for the Beekman 1802 Mercantile that we felt a little pressured to bring this “downstate” spectacle to Sharon Springs? Because this is the first year of the Sharon Springs Victorian [...]

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  Tack-fully

  BY:Josh and Brent

  We had an extra poster of William Beekman at the Mercantile.  Rather than leave it rolled up in the corner, we decided to hang it on the wall in the packaging room.   But hanging on the wall with a bit of double stick taped, Willy looked a little unfinished.  We knew he would not appreciate [...]

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