Picnic Like It’s 1924
It’s Our Centennial!
Let’s take it ALL the way back to 1924 when our estate was first established! You’re invited to join a cast of fashionably dressed Dolls and Dapper Dan’s as we celebrate our third annual Prohibition Tipple in true Speakeasy style with a 1920's lawn party on the grounds of beautiful Blenheim Park.
DUST OFF YOUR WICKER
This is a BYO picnic event so fill your basket with delicious treats, pack a picnic blanket, stash your cordial, and help us celebrate a beautiful century old estate in our centenial year. We will have oysters available for sale on the day.
END PROHIBITION
We may be in a dry town but we're no wet blankets. Inspired by the garden parties of the 20's, we'll transport you to 1924 with music, entertainment and mood. You'll bring your picnic basket and blanket, brush up on 20's slang, dress the part & memorize the secret password. We’ll throw a bash that hit’s on all sixes and make sure nobody sings like a canary. Teatotalers will be glad to know we’ll have a lovely selection of non-alcoholic cocktails available for purchase.
THE CAT’S PAJAMAS
Dress comfortably for a swell afternoon, it’ll be the bees knees, the cat’s pajamas!
We’ll set up the croquet, roll out the bocce’ balls, throw on some old-timey music, and set the scene for you to learn some new dance moves, Lindy-Hop style.
If you're competitive, sign up your team for a tug-of-war or press your tennis whites for a spot of badminton, old sport!
DADA AT HEART
We invite the whimsical at heart to embrace your absurd and participate in our Dada mask / costume parade. We’ll have a crafting booth available at the event for you to create your own.
On July 14, 1916, the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanized, enervated.”
Dada artists felt war called into question every aspect of a society capable of starting and then prolonging it – including its art. Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old.
"Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While the guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might." -- Hans Arp
The art, poetry and performance produced by Dada artists was satirical and nonsensical in nature. It was an appeal to individuality and a vehement cry against the system, against violence, against war, against nationalism and capitalism.
A century later, their sentiments resound again, so if we're speaking your language, we invite you (and your kiddos) to dig into your crafting boxes and show us your most absurd, most spontaneous selves during our Dada costume parade. The more chaotic the better. Truly one of our favorite Tipple events.
MY OH MY, WE LOVE PIE
START YOUR OVENS! You’re invited to show off your best pie making skills. Bring a pie and an appetite!
We invite those who are pie-inclined to bring along their favorite pie to be entered into our second annual Pie Contest AND become your dessert after the judging.
Contest categories include:
Most beautiful pie;
Most ‘Dada’ pie;
and naturally, best cherry pie! (in cherries we trust, after all)
Bake it, steal it, buy at the store, we won’t ask questions and we don’t snitch.
DANCERS. POETS. ARTISTS. FORTUNE TELLERS
Our cast of colorful characters includes dancers, bathing beauties, poets who'll write you a poem in real time, a fortune teller to predict your future, a photo booth to memorialize the occasion, a Dada mask making station, and a selection of fine vintage wares.
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS ARE $35 PER PERSON
‘BEE’S KNEES’ TICKETS ARE $55 PER PERSON, GUARANTEED WATERFRONT SEATING + GIFT BAG
THE TIPPLE IS BEST ENJOYED WITH FRIENDS. INVITE YOURS!
SPACE IS STRICTLY LIMITED. BOOK NOW AND START PLANNING!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
One ticket is for one person. If booking for a group please select the appropriate number in your party.
Tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred. In the event of rain, the Tipple will be held at a future date. Guests will be welcome to visit the Farm Store, all weather.
Blenheim Park is located in a town which has been ‘dry’ since Prohibition therefore we cannot sell alcohol. (Our money is on the Teahouse seeing some Bootlegger / Speakeasy action back in the day. We confess we quite like the idea).
Not everyone shares our love of pets, so please leave yours at home for this event. (but do check out our Dog Halloween Parade and start planning your joint costumes now!).
For the safety and enjoyment of all guests, we ask that you observe our no-smoking policy throughout the property, thank you.
Protecting the beautiful waterways of Maine is a role we’re passionate about, we are in fact Stewards of the McCurdy Islands Preserve, so we advise this is not a swimming event and we ask you not to bring paper napkins or any other picnic goods likely to ‘take flight’ so they do not end up in the lake.
Our aim is to provide you with a lovely, elegant afternoon, so thank you for not bringing in outside seating, grills or electronic music devices. (Lutes, Harps, Sitars and Mandolins welcome).
Please advise in advance if anyone in your group has special needs so we are able to make a plan to accommodate them, since we are a working farm and some areas of the orchard are not readily wheelchair accessible. Thank you.
WORKING FARM — NO LIABILITY FOR INJURY
Warning: Under Maine law, there is no liability for injury to a participant in an agritourism activity conducted at this agritourism location if such injury results from the inherent risks of the agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, among others, risks of injury inherent to land, equipment and animals, as well as the potential for injury if you act in a negligent manner. You are assuming the risk of participating in this agritourism activity.