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October Events - Washington County Rural Heritage Museum

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October 20 October 20– 3rd Annual Living History Day from 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m.  Imagine what rural life was like in Washington County in this mid 1800’s.  All buildings in the Village and Farmstead will be open along with demonstrators in each.

View the 2012 Living History Day Flyer

Special Feature for 2012:

Special Demonstrations Throughout the day Include:
-Apple Butter Cooking
-Basket Making
-Blacksmith
-Bread Baking
-Chair Caning
-Civil War Medical Reenactors
-Corn Shelling, Chopping and Grinding
-Flint Knapping
-Master Gardener Gardening
-Hearth Cooking
-Painting
-Quilting      
-Rug Hooking
-Sheep Sheering
-Stone Crusher
-Stone Masonry
-Wood Carver
-Wool Spinning & Weaving
...and much more!

Children’s Activities Include:
-Old fashioned clothes washing
-Pounding wheat to flour
-Pretzel Twisting
-Doll Sewing
-Birdhouse gourd making and painting with the Master Gardeners
-Writing with Quill Pens

Special Feature new for 2012: Phydeaux’s Flying Flea Circus and Chief Wahoo Miracle Elixir Medicine Show.  Appearances throughout the day in the village by our special guest. 

Lunch will be available for purchase in the Multi-Purpose Kitchen. 

Visit and enjoy old time cooking at its best with a menu of German soft pretzels made from scratch, sausage cooked in cider, apple dumplings, soups, and many more sweets and treats! 

Take part in watching our resident Blacksmith, Joe Sheerer, perform his trade during the Grand Opening of our Blacksmith Shop in the Village. 

Washington County
Rural Heritage Museum
7313 Sharpsburg Pike
Boonsboro, MD  21713
240-420-1714
240-420-1713 Weekends