Cabin Fever Lecture Series: Vacation! The 19th Century Rise of Leisure

The Museum provides local history exhibits and provides educational and cultural programs year round.

Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm

On Friday evenings in March, we provide speakers that will educate your mind and warm your hearts.

Cabin Fever Lecture Series

Every Friday night in March, we provide a variety of programs that will educate your mind and warm your hearts. All programs begin at 7pm and are held in our adaptively reused Calf Barn with light refreshments.

<h4>Vacation! The 19th Century Rise of Leisure</h4>The industrial revolution in the 19th Century created leisure time, disposal income, and speedy travel in which the modern concept of Vacation could develop. Beginning at luxurious health spas like Saratoga Springs and winding its way through mountain resorts in the Catskills and hundreds of camp meeting sites, amusement parks and natural wonders across the country, vacation became part of modern life. Along the way Americans, who abhorred aristocracy and were imbued with the ideas of the Protestant work ethic, grappled with the purpose of vacation. They often rejected it for amuse-ment but accepted vacation as a time for re-creation. Presented by local historian Jim Craft.

<h2>Cabin Fever Lecture Series:</h2> Friday, March 6 - Vacation! The 19th Century Rise of LeisureFriday, March 13 - I Got My Thrill on Newberry Hill - A History of the Newberry Hill Ski Jump in RochesterFriday, March 20 - That Old Time Religion: Ealry Faith Communities of Rochester and AvonFriday, March 27 - NO PROGRAM

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