The bigger boys and I went to the annual American Heritate Festival this last weekend! It was a celebration of our heritage and the sacrifice required so that we can be free today!
The boys LOVED getting to see the soldiers from so many different era’s. For all of Keegan’s bravado and obsession with the guns, he did not enjoy the Revolutionary war re-enactment. Being only 10 feet away from about 8 soldiers firing muskets scared him just a bit. He sat there desperately clinging to my hands and holding them over his ears!
We enjoyed trying on civil war hat replica’s in the ‘costume tent’.
Checking out a teepee!
Checking out the ‘wares’ from a trapper. He had quite the collection, coyote, mink, fox, beaver, ermine, bear. I learned that beaver pelts were in such high demand because they used the underhair to make felt for hats. I’ve only thought of felt as being made out of wool or synthetic materials…
The boys were also quite enamoured with the blacksmith. This is a real-live 3rd generation blacksmith that works out of Mesa, AZ. We watched him make a spoon out of a rod of metal. ok, ok, I was pretty enamoured too.
We’ll definitely be visiting this again in the future. It will be fun to see what they take out of it as we begin to study American history more!
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