About sixty children today, from Jane Lew Elementary. Coward that I am, I mostly lay low in the library doing paperwork, hiding from the hubbub. But only for a time. Just down the hill from my open window is the open-air ampitheatre and as I pecked away at my keyboard I grew slowly aware of numbers [...]
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busses roll in, kids roll out . . .
Posted in Lee Miller, Okey Simmons, artisan classes, flintlock muskets, tagged flintlock musket, hunting bag, tinsmithing on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Recent Posts
- Artisans of the Christmas Market: Debora Blind, Paper Filagree Artist, Calligrapher, Pen & Ink Illustrator
- Annual 18th-century Christmas Market one week-end only this year, from December 11th through the 13th
- Serene Queen
- Squire Miller killed in Shawnee attack; Mistress Rebecca taken captive
- Fall comes to the old frontier
- Preparations afoot for Fall Festival
- No Fall Rendezvous this year at Pricketts Fort
- Fall Festival & Antiques Fair to return to Pricketts Fort, October 10 & 11
- Season of mists …
- Aerial engagement over Pricketts Fort
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Recent Comments
- matthew hawkins on Serene Queen
- Kit McGlinchey on Aerial engagement over Pricketts Fort
- William Popp on The building of a native pot
- Sharon Hanna on Winter on the frontier: what they lived in
- Sharon Hanna on School of the Longhunter II: the native presence
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