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175th
Mt. Pulaski Anniversary
Celebration
1836 -
2011
July
1,
July
2, July
3, July
4
- 2011
On-going at the Courtyard lawn
Old Fashion Firearms Shoot will
be held at Frazier Park,
which is just off South Spring St. on north side of RR Tracks
Living History
Museum
Old-time
Photography Dress in Period Clothing
(S. Mason
of lake Fork: Hott Shots)
Old-fashion Rug Hooking (Emily
Oberreiter & Lola Toohey of Mt. Pulaski)
Phrenology – mid 1850’s – Determining
One’s Abilities by Feeling the Bumps on one’s Head (Ron Slider of
Decatur)
1860’s Woodworking Demonstration with Antique Tools (Chad
Boehlke of Jacksonville)
Tepee
Living, Starting Fires with Flint and Steel
(Sam Schriber of New Holland)
Talk -
Early Western Expansion and Trading with the Native Americans in
this Area
(Gene Dierker of Manito)
Portraying, Living and Selling as Merchants of the 1760’s
(Walter and Debbie Maus of Chestnut)
1800’s
Crafts – Wagon Wheels, Weaving, Wood Working, Crochet, Weaving &
Bobbin Lace
(Lincoln-Logan
County Arts & Crafts Guild)
Kettle
Corn Foods
(Les Blessman of Normal)
Coopering, Wooden Buckets & Barrels
(Charles Buie of Pleasant Plains)
Hand-made Items for the Home - Soaps, Bath Salts, etc.
(Melissa Nagy of
Clinton)
Different Techniques for making Birdhouses, Bowls, Lampshades, etc.
(GourDesigns
of Mattoon)
Muzzle
Loading Guns, Casting Bullets, Muzzle Loading Gun Building
(Fred Lipp of Mt. Pulaski)
Old and
Different Hats of Women
(Hats Galore, Marle Bond of Latham)
Period
Clothing & Blacksmith Demonstrations
(David Kervin of Springfield)
Rug
Hooking and Quilting
(Helen Fine of Mt. Pulaski)
1830’s
Bench making – no glue or nails
(Bob Sherman of Springfield)
Antique
Tractors
(Dorothy & Bob Cowan of Mt. Pulaski)
Antique
Tractors
(Gayle Cyrulik of Mt. Pulaski)
Making
Wooden Decorative Decoy Ducks and Shorebirds
(Don & Sarah Herberling of White Hall)
Old store keeper of Yore - selling old prints, books
(George Horn of Latham)
Chain
Saw Carving
(Jesse Beeson of Decatur)
Old
Frontier Children Toys
(Bob McCue of Mt. Pulaski)
“Story
Tree”
(story telling or reading books – by various people)
Bow & Arrow
Demonstrations
Frontier Stage Coach & Wagon
– Don Leonard
up-dated as of 6/11/11
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