Mission

Everyone's story is important and will be researched and told. Not simply male land owners, Augustus Howland, Thomas Lapham and others. What are the experiences of their wives and children? The tenant farmers and merchants? The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ who were displaced? And escaped enslaved individuals who found freedom here?

While we may romanticize about how sustainable life in "olden days" was, the reality

is that many aspects were very wasteful and short sighted. However, Howland Farm Museum has the advantage of choosing the best practices of sustainability from the past through the present to exist in a harmonious balance with Mother Earth!

The complex puzzle of History is infinite when seen not only in how circumstances and events are all related and affected by each other, but also how the past touches the present and future. When viewed holistically, the sensitive fibers connecting each of our lives with everything else in time and space, can be perceived more clearly!

It is important to engage in "play" and the type

of old-fashioned, innocent fun that perhaps we grew out of at some point. At Howland Farm Museum, guests are encouraged to look through their inner child's eyes. You have permission to be silly, goofy and allow yourself to be filled with simple wonderment!

Taking care of ourselves is essential before we can take care of other people, creatures or our planet. Actively working to achieve or maintain physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health is a greatly respected focus.

Howland Farm Museum is a drug and alcohol free property in order to support this endeavor.

The energy of the Divine Spirit is within us. Howland Farm Museum embraces a higher spiritual calling to be a sanctuary and promote the fine tuning of ourselves towards high vibrations in order to find alignment with our

own unique divinity and life purpose.