Flora School Days
SCHOOL DAYS PRESENTS PIONEER SKILLS
Flora, Oregon Days of old come once again to Flora School, Saturday, June 17th, from 7am when the forges light for the blacksmith competition to 1pm when hammers are laid down. 9am heralds the starting of all other old-time skills, along with the Pie Social and Country Store opening. Volunteers of all shapes and sizes, walks of life, and areas far afield will present pioneer skills from cast iron cooking to allowing visitors to swing a hammer to pound out a metal hook. Old time music rounds out the day, with pie and Dutch oven cooking.
Branding leather, or an old board, burns into the 2023 celebration a new old-time skill. Most people have not seen branding in person, let alone actually hold the hot branding iron while burning the symbol into the hide. Log printing in the library returns with a new twist: printing on fabric. Then, from printing to sewing a beanbag on an old time crank or treadle machine to the clown face beanbag throw in front of the school. Help draw the pages in a flip book, an old-time moving storybook originally used in the 1400s.
Along with the Dutch ovens heating up to bring lunch to the visitors ($10 a plate), the wood cookstove workers will be baking the spoonbread for the lunch in their oven. Visitors to School Days may churn the butter for the breads and ground the flour for next year’s spoonbread. “Listen for the bell!” to declare “lunch time” hints past attendees. The bell this year, created by Riley River Forge out of Walla Walla, WA, used cast-off parts in true pioneer fashion.
Early attendees (9am to 10am) will be placed in a raffle; winning name to be drawn by 10:30am.
For more information or to become a volunteer, text 541.263.2368, call 541.828.7010 or email floraschool@tds.net.
For more information, refer to Flora School’s website www.floraschool.org, Facebook page, Instagram, YouTube channel, email floraschool@tds.net or call 541.828.7010.
Date and Time
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PDT
June 17, 2023
9 am to 3 pm Blacksmithing Forges light up at 8 am.
Location
80974 College Ln Flora, OR 97828
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Contact Information
Vanessa Thompson
541.828.7010
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