2011年8月23日星期二

Pioneer Days A Good Old Time


Pioneer Days Lac Cardinal Pioneer Village Museum was organized for the 17th consecutive year, August 13 Participants were treated to a full day of activities and events Pioneer, carriage rides, live music and more.

The day began at 8.30 am and a breakfast omelet and the Farmers Market, which began at 10 noon, the procession began the start of operations. The parade of horse-drawn carriages and strollers on display, vintage tractors and children on their bikes decorated for the feast.

During the afternoon, customers could mill around the pioneer village and check all the different views, they had to offer, like a blacksmith's forge where the real work, the beautiful church and even a few decorated house to reflect the 1920 - 1940 's. Antique barber offers haircuts for $ 2 for day visitors and the general meeting Ann and Helen Toker Diebert store was busy making ice cream and butter.

Diebert used a butter churn to make butter from cream, while Toker used a machine to the old ice cream for a cold treat for children.

There was also a demonstration of how they washed their clothes "in the old days" and face painting at the school house. At the bakery, baked Evelyn Condrotte, Tiek Ferguson and Linda Boisvert, who were all dressed pioneer costumes, a host of tasty treats, as they had for sale.

Sometimes the soft clip-clopping of hooves and the jingle-jangle horses and chariots were pulling the whole village belonged to offer free Carriage rides through the curves made by the same clients. Musical entertainment was about fourteen, and up to about 16:30 for children and adults dance the afternoon away from some of the Golden Oldies.

The events started around 13:00. Veidt, George was placed near a barn with a rope maker, shows for children as their very own strings, which could take home. At 01:30, Antique tractor roared to life, and shows locally, like the old sawmill was running log of wood planks. Other events, including planing and shingle mill, and despite a short shower was a threshing demonstration concluded the day at 16:00

Pioneer days began in 1994 around a kind of "show-n-tell" day of Lac Cardinal Pioneer Museum. They wanted to show all the attractions they have there. In fact, they get some new attractions. In addition to the general store will soon be a shoe store and a shoe replica newspaper office record-Gazette.

However, Ted Duncan, the organizer of the pioneer days, I felt that day went well.

"It was excellent this year," said Duncan, "It was a fantastic trip, there were many people and it's always nice to see."

Look for Pioneer day again next year the second weekend in August.

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