25th Blueberry Festival at Old Austerlitz

July 26, 9am–3pm | Austerlitz, NY | $10 adults, free under 12

The Austerlitz Historical Society marks the 25th anniversary of its Blueberry Festival on July 26, an all-day event on the grounds of Old Austerlitz. The day opens with a blueberry pancake breakfast and runs through early 19th-century craft demonstrations, antiques, artisan vendors, children's activities, and live music until 3pm.

Old Austerlitz is an 20-acre living history museum complex includes eight functioning 18th- and 19th-century buildings, among them the 1794 Morey-Devereaux House and Barn, a working 1850s blacksmith shop, a small 1853 community church, and an 1852 one-room schoolhouse. Founded in 1988, the historical society sits in a town established in March 1818, six miles from the Berkshire-Columbia County line. The festival gives visitors a chance to walk through all of it while the blacksmith demonstrates his trade and artisans sell their wares.

General admission is $10 for adults, free for children under 12; the pancake breakfast carries an additional charge of $10 for adults and $5 for kids. The event runs rain or shine. Proceeds go directly toward the historical society's ongoing preservation work—maintaining the post-and-beam buildings, the church, and the schoolhouse that make up the campus, and continuing the organization's broader mission of documenting and safeguarding the town's history.

Old Austerlitz, 11550 NY Route 22, Austerlitz, NY. More at oldausterlitz.org.