Experience Texas Early Years During the 21St Annual Christmas at the Fort

Christmas at the Fort Experience Texas’ Early Years During the 21st Annual Christmas at The Fort December 9,10,11,12, 2010 Introduce your family to Texas history at this stockade fort that played a unique roll in the settlement of our state. A 19th century timeline of entertainers and artisans will let you and your children learn about Texas’ early history or purchase historic era reproduction Christmas gifts. The living history timeline will span from the 1820s buck skinners to the 1890s cavalry, soldiers, and cowboy gunfighters.. In addition to homestead and camp life demonstrations, artisans will demonstrate glass blowing, blacksmithing, knife making, woodcarving walking sticks, flint knapping, cornhusk doll making, quilting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, and soap making. Live entertainment will include Indian Pow Wow dancers, gunfighter skits, storytellers, soldiers, cannons, dulcimer music, flute music, Cherokee stories and Indian Wedding Vow Renewal. There will also be animals to pet and: wagon rides and of course Santa will be there! Thursday and Friday of Christmas At The Fort have been dedicated as school days, with more than 2,700 area children scheduled for tours. On Saturday and Sunday, the Old Fort Parker grounds will be open to the public. Food booths will be available on site and lots of shopping. A limited number of camping spaces are available, so make your requests early. Contact: Old Fort Parker (254)729-5253 Wed-Sun 9-5;[email protected] * To Participate in this event, you will need to fill out this form and mail to: Christmas, 866 Park Road 35, Groesbeck, TX 76642 Name ______Address______Rendezvous Camp: For 1830’s Re enactors ______Rendezvous Pick a site______Camp Map Phone Number______Rendezvous Trader $25 Email______Rendezvous Family Camp $10 W Rendezvous Camp w/ Trade blanket $25 a Rendezvous Day Games $10 L L L 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Fence Dinner in the Visitor Center for Vendors in Visitor Center nitely. Road Please come and join us for this celebration. We look forward to Modern * First come first serve on sites all of our old friends returning to help us with this event as well as Modern Food Vendor $25 the new ones we will meet if you decide to join us. Keeping this old Modern Trader $25 fort open as well as keeping the history alive is very important Modern Trader w/ electric $45 to all of us. Some of you will be invited to help with the educational RV Camping Site $15 per day portion of this program and will be working in the fort. Tent Camping Site $10 plus admission once The Rendezvous participants work hard to be authentic 1830’sand (Food Vendors and Modern Traders will set have an authentic camp and games. This year we will have Christmas Up first come first serve. RV & tent camping decorating contest with prizes for the best Modern Camp/Vendor, spaces will be assigned.) Scouts welcome the best Rendezvous Camp and the best in Fort Educational display.