FREEPORT — Freeport Community Library will present “Peddling Your Wares: A Look at Itinerant Merchants in Early 19th Century New England” along with a rum tasting on Sunday, March 10, at 1:30 p.m.
Tom Kelleher, curator of Historic Trades, Mills, and Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village, will present.
A brief Q&A session will be followed by a rum tasting of Eight Bells, a light rum produced by New England Distilleries.
Tickets to the presentation are $5 at the door.
For more information, call 865-3170 or visit www.freeporthistoricalsociety.org.
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