Save the Date ~ March 10 ~ Sutter's Fort

Sutter's Fort

Sacramento Area Home Schoolers invites you to

come observe our families step back in time to the 1840’s!

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015

RAIN OR SHINE

YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN:

Singing Songs with our Minstrels

Fire starting with Flint & Steel

Learn about Animal Trapping

 Identifying Animal Tracks

   Making Corn Husk Dolls                                                    

One–Room Schoolhouse

Old Fashion Laundry

Turning a Grist Mill

Children’s Games                  

Acorn Grinding

Rope Making

 Animal Tending      

Butter Churning

Weaving on a Loom

Purchase Souvenirs at the Fort’s Gift Shop

**** OBSERVE US: 

In the gated rooms and roped off areas:  

 Baking Bread In an Adobe Oven 

Cooking over an Open Fire

Cooking in an 1840's Kitchen

Bartering at a Trade Store

Drilling the Militia    

Weaving Baskets   

 Making Candles

Punching Tin

Making Rope

Weaving on a Loom

Sewing Leather Pouches

Building a Candle Lantern

Special Events:  

Flag Raising

Cannon Firing Demonstration at 12:15 pm

SEE FEES BELOW ~ NO SIGN-UP ~ JUST SHOW UP ~ SEE Y’ALL THERE!

SUTTER’S FORT STATE HISTORIC PARK     2701 L STREET     SACRAMENTO, CA

Gate opens at 10:00 am and close at 5:00 pm

March 10^th is a special event day at the fort and is reflected in the cost of the entrance fee:

Cash or VISA or Mastercards only

$7.00 Adults

$5.00 17 - 6 years of age

Free 5 years & under

**** Homeschooling families interested in getting information to be trained for a future 24 hour living history day with Sacramento Area Home Schoolers, send a self-address stamped envelope to Carol Ann Young at 2612 Benny Way, Rancho Cordova 95670. We will contact you next year in mid-August 2016.

Leanne Kramp
Administrator
IHS Christian School
PO BOX 2191 Rancho Cordova CA, 95741-2191