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Union County Historical Society Announcing Rural Heritage Days 2010 Theme: "Making Do"
8/11/2010 - 8/14/2010
Time: Wednesday is Children's Day 12-4 Thursday is presentation 7 PM exhibit and talk by Nada Gray on "Making Do"
Friday is an antique auction and auction supper starting at 5 PM and going to about 8 PM
Saturday is Grand Family Day 10 AM-4 PM
Location: Dale/Engle/Walker House on Strawbridge Road, Buffalo Township, a couple of miles outside of Lewisburg, just off Route 192.
Information: LEWISBURG, The Union County Historical Society just announced that the theme for Rural Heritage Days 2010 is Making Do.
The seventh annual Rural Heritage Days events will be held Wednesday August 11 through Saturday, August 14, 2010, at the 1793 Dale/Engle/Walker House on Strawbridge Road, Buffalo Township, a couple of miles outside of Lewisburg, just off Route 192.
Wednesday will be the popular Childrens Day with food, homemade ice cream made by the hit-and-miss engine of Samuel Yoder, old-fashioned games, animals, pony rides and fun activities.
On Thursday evening author Nada Gray of Lewisburg will give the event-theme program on the wide variety of Make Do items on local 19th- and early 20th-century farms. Mrs. Gray will discuss items that used materials in very different ways - such as repair of broken pottery pitchers by tinkers with inventive tinware handles, wooden plates with a wire staple to hold a crack tight, or eggs dyed with onion skins and scratch decorated for Easter.
On Friday evening, the porch of the Dale/Engle/Walker House will be brimming with goods to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, as they did in the 19th century when an auction was called a vendue. Organizers Mary Jo Spangler of New Berlin, and Sue Mapes of Mifflinburg, who both like the sound of an auctioneers patter, invite everyone to come bid on the many local valuables. The auction starts at 5 PM.
Saturdays event will be the culmination of the four days and runs from 10 AM-4 PM, featuring chicken barbecue by the Eli Reiff family and friends, and homemade ice cream by Steven Beiler. Hit-and-miss or steam-driven machines will do threshing and binding, shingle making, hay baling, and turning bats on a lathe. New this year will be a black powder horn maker, a rug hooker, a charcoal maker, dulcimer player, and more. Mary Jo Spangler, and Deb Wehr of Mifflinburg, co-chairs of Saturday's event, invite visitors to Rural Heritage Days to learn, participate, listen to music, have delicious food and relax on a rocker on the porch, at this 18th-century farm beside the Buffalo Creek.
Contact: Watch for full schedule of Rural Heritage Days on the Union County Historical Society website www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org. For additional information contact the Society at 570-524-8666 or historical@ptd.net.
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