Event Details
Saturday, Mar 21, 2015
DeSoto County Pioneer Day
Time: 9:00 am til 3:00 pm
Location: Veterans Park, 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.
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FPAN is attending this event.
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Archaeology Works Expo
Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm
Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Dr NE St. Petersburg, 33702
Description: Join the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) at the Weeden Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center on Saturday, March 21st from 10 A.M. to 12 P.M. for the Archaeology Works Expo. Attendees will have the chance to participate in hands-on activities from all the Archaeology Works workshops we have offered to date. Children and adults will experience archaeology in various ways, ranging from the methods archaeologists use to learn about the past to recreating the technologies of Florida’s early residents. Bring the family to this free event to hang out with archaeologists from FPAN and see if you could survive life in Prehistoric Florida!
FPAN is hosting this event.
