On Sunday, June 12, the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House invite children and adults to learn how to make Colonial-era corn husk dolls. (photo courtesy Robin Ray).

Wherever corn grew in native America, the women would often peel the outer husks off and dry it, using it for many household purposes, one of which was making dolls for the little ones. Several ...

J.J. Cardinal Naturalist, Joe Robertson, will show us how to make corn husk dolls, and talk about who first made them, and why. Participants will make up to three dolls and decorate them out of a ...

Marcy Kane, her sister and three daughters have been making corn husk dolls since they were children. Lillian Kane, Marcy's mother and the founder of the group, taught her when she was 13.