Contact: Homestead National Monument of America (402) 223-3514 Sponsor: NPS
Location:
Beatrice, NE 68310
Stard/End Dates:
10/14/2004--10/17/2004
Description:
Three day event will focus on hands-on activities related to the homesteading times. Activities will include spinning wool, quilting, candle dipping, making butter, making butter, making and using butter, making and using pioneer toys, playing school yard games, making molasses from sorghum, making glass marbles, threshing oats and picking corn by hand beside a team and wagon while discussing math and deciding how a farmer would get seed fo next year and other issures faced by an 1800s farmer.
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