Dairy Day at Pricketts Fort to be held this Saturday, August 6

Dairy Day at Pricketts Fort will be held this Saturday, August 6 from 10 – 4:30.   Frontier activities will include making cottage cheese, milking goats, making butter, and cooking cheese pie over the hearth. Dairy Day activities are included with the regular price of admission.  Tickets are $6 adults, $5 seniors, $3 children 6 – 12, under 6 [...]

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From sheep to shawl: visitors witness an ancient art

Visitors to Pricketts Fort on Saturday, May 14th, were able to witness an archaic activity from the eighteenth century which, in its essentials, has changed little from Biblical times: the manufacture of a woolen garment from sheep to finished product First, the shearing of the sheep with hand shears, resulting at the end of the [...]

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Annual 18th Century Christmas Market comes to Pricketts Fort, December 10-12

The Annual 18th Century Christmas Market comes to Pricketts Fort again this year, December 10th through the 12th, from 10 am to 4:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, and from noon to 4:30 pm on Sunday. Quality traditional crafts and products will be for sale in the Visitor Center; live traditional music will be provided [...]

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Dairy Day this Saturday, August 7

Dairy Day at Pricketts Fort will be held this Saturday, August 7 from 10 – 4:30.   Frontier activities will include making cottage cheese, milking goats, making butter, and cooking cheese pie over the hearth. Dairy Day activities are included with the regular price of admission.  Tickets are $6 adults, $5 seniors, $3 children 6 – 12, under [...]

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Scenes from the Christmas Market

Despite the blustery winter weather, the annual Pricketts Fort Christmas Market was very well attended this year. At least, the indoor market was well attended. On that first day in particular, when the raw wind whipping across the open field between the Visitor’s Center and the Fort put one in mind of the Siberian steppes, [...]

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Dairy Day

Dairy Day at the fort dawned particularly hot and muggy, and it never improved. Notwithstanding the heat, however, the proceedings were well-attended, with about a hundred visitors passing through during the day to observe the milking of the goat by its owner, Judy Wilson, and the making of cottage cheese and butter. Once the milk [...]

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John Curry & Mark Baker to be Featured Speakers at the Pricketts Fort 2009 School of the Longhunter, April 2-5

Two luminaries of frontier re-enacting will be featured speakers at this year’s School of the Longhunter at Pricketts Fort: John Curry and Mark Baker. John Curry has been an avid student of the eighteenth century frontier for 35 years and has organized and lead many historic forays into wilderness areas. He has written for several [...]

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Scenes from the Christmas Market

Faithful friend of the Fort, Tom Carson, maintained a keen-eyed vigil through much of the Market, conversing with visitors and directing them from one building to another. He was assisted at times by his compadre Queen Aliquippa, the ever-present cat-of-the-fort. Inside the fort, the two main buildings, the Trading Post and the Meeting House, were [...]

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A meal to remember . . .

It was indeed a meal to remember, one of the most delicious and satisfying I have had ever, yet typical male that I am, I can’t actually remember the individual dishes very clearly, so I trust some of the ladies who were there will help me out. I got a list of the dishes afterwards [...]

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Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort

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