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September 2016
LOCAL INFORMATION & ADVERTISING
Old fashion fun at Pioneer Day September 24
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By Laurel Robertson
ook and feel 100 years younger this September 24 as Pioneer Day comes to life at the Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead in Dripping Springs. Pioneer Day re-creates and celebrates life as it was on Dripping Springs’ original homestead during the late 1800s. Participants can stroll beneath giant oaks on the historic grounds watching girls in bonnets chase large wooden hoops and boys in suspenders shoot marbles in the dirt. They can watch a spinner tease wool into yarn, a blacksmith hammer metal at a forge, a flint knapper craft arrowpoints from stone, an outdoor cook make German pancakes in a Dutch oven, - and many more demonstrations of crafts and skills that were essential on the Texas frontier. In this year’s expanded Children’s Area, young participants can try their
hand at candledipping, sewing quilt cards, shaping clay pots, carving quill pens, crafting cornhusk dolls, and six more hands-on activities that would have been familiar to pioneer children. Along with each activity, they’ll learn about life on the Texas frontier that made those skills important. They can take part in a one-room schoolhouse and hold baby animals in a petting zoo. Kids can exert themselves in traditional sack races, washer-pitching contests, hoop-and-stick chases, corn toss games and stilt walking. They can also rest with quieter activities such as checkers, chess and Lincoln logs. Civil War and cowboy reenactors will be there in authentic costume: men in woolen military uniforms and leather frontier garb, women in hoop skirts and bonnets. Along with other authentic era See WESTCAVE ROADRUNNER, page 2
Girls with their grandmother sell pound cake at the Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead Pioneer Days. Don’t miss it September 24! Photo by Lisa Chaffin.
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