Step Back In Time
Farming And The Country Doctor: Visit The Remick
Individuals and families will find many reasons to visit the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm, whether it is to see and interact with the animals, learn what it was like to be a country doctor in the early- to mid-20th century, or simply to walk the property and experience the rural Tamworth countryside.
Program Manager Jim Cruickshank, who grew up on a farm, said it is easy for him to take much of the farm experience for granted, but seeing children’s interactions with the baby goats can be hilarious.
“They are jumping, they are bounding around, so watching people interact with them, whether that’s on a hike or even this little playpen we built for them, with their swing and things of that nature, is fun.”
Marketing Coordinator Dawne Gilpatrick recalled how, earlier in the spring, when the goat kids were small, the farm had a “cuddle corral” to give children a chance to actually cuddle the goats.
“For kids, it’s just that, you know, they’re my size, but it moves and tickles. They’re basically seeing them sometimes at an age where they’ll just essentially even cradle in their arms.”
The mission of the nonprofit foundation that operates the museum and farm is “To educate a broad and diverse public to the values and significance of the medical practice and agricultural way of life of the country doctor, and to preserve and protect the Remick property and collections for the benefit of the public.” Jim puts it this way: “What we are interpreting about our site that it is a 200-year-plus family farm.”
Dr. Edwin Remick and his son, Dr. Edwin Crafts Remick, treated patients from 1894 to 1993, and the younger doctor established the foundation to maintain the property as a working farm and museum. The museum opened to the public in 1996, three years after his death.
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