2012 Calendar

March                Annual Campaign Mailing

April 26-27         4th Grade School Program

May                    FMH Newsletter

Fall                      BBQ & Auction

2012 Open House Schedule coming soon

2012 Calendar

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All Living History Open Houses are 1-4 p.m.

Program presentations are at 2 p.m.

Bluegrass music will be before & after the program

May 29 (Sun)          Open Hearth Cooking

                                & Wood Stove Cooking

                              Spinning Demonstration

June 12 (Sun)         George Mason Letters on

                                Charleston History

                              Bluegrass Music - Open Jam

                               Spinning Demonstration

June 26  (Sun)   Coles Co. & the Gold Rush,1849

                              Blacksmithing Demonstration

                              Spinning Demonstration

July 10  (Sun)         Firearms of the Civil War

                              Spinning Demonstration

                              Bluegrass Music - Open Jam

July 23  (Sat)         Illinois roots - Gunfighters

                                 of the Old West

                              Spinning Demonstration

 

August 7  (Sun)      Rennels Family Visit

August 14  (Sun)    First Person Interpretation -

                                 Monroe Ellington Murders

                                 In Charleston - 1855-56

                       "Ballad of the Sweet Willow Tree"

                                   By Mother Lode

                              Spinning Demonstration

August 28 (Sun)      Rally for the new Republican

                                 Party - 1856 - A. Lincoln

                              "White Coopering"

                              Spinning Demonstration

                              Bluegrass Music - Open Jam

 

October 9  (Sun)      Blacksmithing

                               Apple Cider Pressing

                               Open hearth cooking

                               Wood stove cooking

                               Spinning

                               Blue Grass Music

October 29  (Sat)     BBQ and Auction Fundraiser