Volunteers present techniques for saving food over those long winter months. Salting, pickling, and drying, as well as butter and cheese-making, will be demonstrated. Sit around a blazing campfire as storyteller Dewey Chaffin shares stories of the Cherokee Nation. Chaffin will take you back to a time before cities and towns with his tales of early peoples, nature traditions, and mounds. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and settle back for an evening of fascination and wonder.
Children can learn about their family histories from some of the best teachers-their grandparents.
Children will be assisted in putting their oral histories into written form so that they can pass on the information to their own grandchildren one day. This workshop will consist of an indepth discussion of Federal, State and local resources including special censuses, military records, vital records, land records, and newspaper collections. Other topics will include cemetery records, immigration records, and institutional records. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Find out what it took to survive on the Ohio frontier in the late 1700s. Demonstrations, displays, and lectures on firearms, powder horns, blacksmithing, cooking, clothing, and other essentials for enduring the 18th-century wilderness will be brought into focus during this day on survival.