October 2-3, 2010 - Heritage Days
The updated 2010 information to be announced when the schedule is finalized.
Heritage Days :: Saturday Schedule :: Sunday Schedule
Highlights of the 2006 Warrior Run Fort Freeland Heritage Days.
Hours and Admission Rates
Saturday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Admission Rates:
Adults - $6
Students - $2
Daily Events and Participants (unless otherwise noted)
- Enlarged Native American Village
- “Pennsylvania Jack”, story teller
- “Tobi”, children’s games and old toys
- Horse-drawn wagon rides by Mr. George Vastine
- Tinker/Medicine Man portrayed by Custom Taylor Productions
- Cooper’s Battery B, Civil War Re-enactors at the Warrior Run Church
- The Lowlander Highlanders, Scots/Irish fiddle and drum music
- Bob Swope, quoits
- Tours of Warrior Run Church
- Hearth cooking demonstrations
Enjoy two full days of colonial foods, demonstrations, crafts, and lectures that will help visitors of all ages better understand the lives of the early settlers in the area.
New in 2009
- Display of 18th and 19th century pewter
- Sunday Concert from 2-4 PM by "The Chicken Tractor"
Daily Craft Demonstrations
- Nick and Maryann Adulo, tinker
- Sherry and Sawyer Armstrong, candle dipping
- Ralph and Susan Aument, 18th century reproduction furniture
- Scott Baylor & Scott Gelnett, tinsmiths
- Leanne Keefer Bechdel, 18th century laudress
- Willow & Lyra Bechdel, scribe’s apprentice
- Yvonne & Tony Benfer, needlework school
- Brandyn Charlton, fractur painting and 18th century handwriting
- David and Catherine Dodds, 18th century gunmaker
- Vicki Egli, 19th century herb garden, medicinal and culinary herbs
- Oscar Ellis, woodcarving
- Loraine Feola, knitting and crochet
- Cheryl Fenstermacher, Civil War clothing
- Fort Freeland Flickers, award-winning youth sheep to shawl demonstration
- Dan Franks, tanning
- Gene Gardner, blacksmith
- Wanda Gardner, rug weaving on a table-top loom
- Maynard T. Gearhart, woodcarving
- Susan Gold, box tape loom weaving
- Scott Gold II, hand hewn wooden bowls
- Wayne Greiner, wine making
- Heather Hibbs, treadle sewing machine
- Don Hodges and Tom Snyder, schoolmasters
- Patty Kramer, Grandma’s washday, 19th century laundry
- Althea Kreider, crewel
- Robert E. Lee, pottery
- Joy McCracken, textile historian
- Nathan McKenzie, PA rifles and powder horn making
- Mabelina Marseco, tatting
- Bradd Mertz, wheelwright
- Valerie Bieber Mertz, cross stitch and samplers
- Sarah Miller, treadle sewing machine
- Steve Miller, gunsmith
- David Morris, Reproduction 18th century furniture
- Gail Moser, quilting
- John and Donna Murray, clear toy candy
- Mary N. Paulhamus, bobbin lace
- John Pfleegor, chair caning
- Irmgard Seidl-Adams, timber frame loom
- Jon, Maryjane & James Seifried, leather and horn work, fire with flint, scherschnitte, felting
- Donna Selfridge Spangler, fraktur
- Shikelimo Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
- Janice Sonnen, rug hooking and penny rugs
- Ruth Thomas, rag rug crocheting
- Sherry Walter, quilting
- Kathy Wagner, working with wool
- Dixie Lee Wurster, straw work, hat plaiting
Tradespeople Exhibits
| Apple Butter Basketweaving Blacksmithing Bobbin Lace Bowlmaking Brickmaking Cider Press Cigar making Coopering Corn Culture Crocheted Rag Rugs |
Crossstitch Embroidery Fence Making Flax Culture Fraktur Art Hearth Cooking Horseradish Knitting Needlework Pie Baking Pottery Pumpmaking |
Quilting Rake Making Ropemaking Spinning Tatting Timberframing Tinsmithing Wheelwright Window Sash Wool Culture |