In 2012, the Historic Deerfield Open Hearth Cooking Program will enter its 25th year of service!  To celebrate this special occasion, the annual Winter Lecture Series is titled "Gathering, Gardening, Preserving: Exploring Local Food in New England." Sandra L. Oliver will present the lecture, "Banbury, Succotash, and Bannocks: Transplants, Natives, and Universals in New England Cookery."  Oliver is an Independent Food Historian, and author of Food in Colonial and Federal America. Free and open to the public. 2 p.m., Deerfield Community Center (formerly White Church Community Center) in Deerfield.