making apple butter outside the Job House
throughout the festival local musicians played mountain music on the front porch
stirring the kettle for hours was warm work, so the stirrers traded off . . .
. . . still stirring . . .
. . . and still more stirring . . .
among the visitors to the Festival were three amiable bulldogs
. . . did someone mention venison? . . .
inside the fort another kettle was being stirred,
only they weren't making apple butter. They were rendering bear fat.
carving a ladle suitable for hearty frontier stews
among the many powderhorns worn by the re-enactors,
this was one of the most impressive
in the Greg Bray Blacksmith Shop,
which was formally dedicated during the Festival,
the work never stopped for long . . .
. . . examining the new bellows
Blacksmith Bray at work . . .
Mister Bray in front of his newly-dedicated shop
a few examples of Greg's handiwork
the abode of the Shawnee . . .
Shawnee trade items
In the surrounding woods,
the fall color was at its height . . .
. . . and in those woods, a Shawnee warrior on the move . . .
Shawnee warriors, in fact, were everywhere . . .
. . . while the militia was ever vigilant . . .
Some members of the Pricketts Fort extended family
