Event Details
Saturday, Mar 15, 2014
DeSoto County Pioneer Day Festival
Time: 9:00 am til 5:00 pm
Location: DeSoto Veterans Park on State Road 70 just west of Arcadia
Description: Pioneer Day offers family fun of all kinds. Special and traditional Florida foods--such as swamp cabbage and strawberry shortcake--are available. A “Discover History” hands-on area is FREE for children and includes old-fashioned toys and games, cane pole fishin’, washing with a a scrub board and wash pot, a pitcher pump, writing with a dip pen, orange juicin’, and more. Demonstrators show off their skills in basket-weaving, black-smithing, butter-churning, candledipping, quilting, soap-making, spinning, woodworking, and other crafts.
Clubs, churches, and other organizations display their history. The Suncoast Dulcimers--a hammered dulcimer group; the Fiddle Crabs--an old-time string band; Barney and Penny Meese; and Lee James entertain along with legendary characters Arcadia Albritton Coker and James Mitchell “Acrefoot” Johnson--plus a frontier shoot-out at noon. Animals, antique engines, vintage automobiles, a classic fire truck, Florida authors and artists--all showcase Florida’s unique heritage and history.
The Society welcomes everyone to join in the fun--as a demonstrator, participant, vendor, or volunteer!
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FPAN is participating in this event.
Our Past and Present: Archaeology at Manatee Mineral Spring
Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm
Location: 1312 2nd Avenue East and 14th Street East Bradenton 34208
Description: Join Professor Uzi Baram of New College of Florida and Time Sifters Archaeology Society at Manatee Mineral Spring for a special tour of Reflections of Manatee’s “History Flows from this Spring” interpretive trail. Dr. Baram will lead a dynamic tour and interactive discussion of the historical events which took place around the spring. Archaeology has revealed a rich heritage of many histories, covering thousands of years. FREE! Handicap facilities available on site. For more information contact 941-504-7130.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
Native Americans In Tampa Bay, The Way They Worked
Time: 10:30 am til 12:00 pm
Location: Palm Harbor Library 2330 Nebraska Ave Palm Harbor, FL 34683
Description: All are welcome to this presentation to learn more about shell tools, middens, hand-hewn canoes and how the people native to Pinellas Peninsula utilized existing resources in order to live in their Florida habitat. This program is made possible with funding from the Florida Humanities Council. It is hosted by the Palm Harbor Historical Society at the Palm Harbor Library.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
