There also will be tribal representatives
from both the Cherokee and Shawnee tribes from Oklahoma to demonstrate
crafts such as Cherokee basket weaving, Shawnee clothing worn through time, and Cherokee story tellers.
If your walk back in time down the Red is not enough, there will also be
demonstration areas near the historic Gladie cabin that will cover early
corn processing technologies, such as grinding corn with a stone
slab, and an area with long hunters using tools like the ones that were used
during the contact period in Kentucky during the 1700's.
The two day event will be held on Friday, September 19, for school groups by prior arrangement only, and on Saturday, September 20, for the general public.
Saturday hours are from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. There will not be any food vendors at the event,
so plan on packing a picnic lunch if you go.
Faulkner has this to say about Saturday's program:
"The Saturday program is more directed to adults, for a wide range of
local resident and academia minded teacher and student, and both
professional and non professional archaeologists. Most of the
demonstrators at the event are highly skilled and offer a rich body of
knowledge pertaining to how primitive technologies operated during the
span of the prehistoric periods.
"It's a rare opportunity to have the
chance to see many of the primitive skills taught by demonstrators that
have been practicing these skills many years. For example: To take a
chunk of flint rock and chip it into a refined spear or arrow, or to
turn a lump of clay into a cooking vessel, both primitive skills takes
many years to master.
"In addition there will be educational stations
that will present a refined chronology of the prehistory in the area,
and staff to answer questions."
Many other skills and technologies will be demonstrated, including fire building, Native medicine and cooking,
bow/arrow making, and hide tanning.
Directions
Take I-64 to exit 98 (Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway); take the parkway to exit 33 (Slade exit); then turn left
at the junction of KY 11/15. Go 1.5 miles west on KY 15 to KY 77, and follow the signs.
For more information contact:
Daniel Boone National Forest
1700 Bypass Road
Winchester, KY 40391
859-745-3100
Website:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone/heritage/livingarch.shtml
