5/11/2012 to 5/12/2012 | 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 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 and powder horns, and see
old time gardening techniques. Watch
demonstrators use a crosscut saw and split rails with an ax. See a real whiskey
still and watch as sheep are sheered with a hand-cranked sheep sheerer.
Experience the history of the bow and what it was like for Native Americans to
hunt Mastodons with an atlatl more than 12,000 years ago! Experience real quilting making and the kids
will enjoy the old time games from yesteryear and much more!
On Friday, the park will host school groups at this event. As a special treat for the students, free fish food will be provided to the students to feed the fish and Baker Creek Seed will be giving away free old-variety garden seed just for students!
Event times: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Associated activities
- Historic Site Tours