5/13/2011 to 5/14/2011 | Montauk State Park | Salem, MO
Step back into the past during this two-day event and experience lost skills, arts and crafts of the Ozarks. You can listen to old time music and experience the forerunner of modern square dance – the Scottish country dance, complete with kilts. Take a mill tour of the historic Montauk Mill and grind your own corn meal. Watch as artisans produce their own steel on the forge to make knives, horseshoes, fish gigs and gun barrels. Marvel as Strong Man Steve does incredible feats of strength for audiences. Smell the wood smoke and old recipes being prepared during the Dutch oven cooking demonstrations. Witness the making of homemade soap, candles, tin ware, buckets, wool cloth, pottery, furniture, shingles, brooms, turkey calls, powder horns and much more. Watch demonstrators use a crosscut saw and split rails. See a real whiskey still and watch as sheep are sheered with a hand cranked sheep sheerer. Experience a real quilting bee and the kids will enjoy the old time games from yesteryear.
Event times: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., both days