Heritage Hill Spring Celebration Showcase
Heritage Hill Spring Celebration
Sunday May 2nd, 2010
Time: 10:00am-4:30pm
Cost: $6 per person (children 4 and under free).
The pancake and porkie breakfast is $2.00 per person. Breakfast from 10am-1pm.
Pony rides are $2.00 per person.
Enjoy a pancake and porkie breakfast, games for children, baby animals, pony rides, wagon rides, antique cars and watch as we shear our sheep like was done in 1905!
See below detailed activities:
Education Center Activities
Pancake & Porkie Breakfast - 10:00-1:00pm Cost: $2.00 per person
Basket Making, Felting, Spinning Demonstrations
Quilt Display Enjoy the beautiful hand crafted quilts from Heritage Hill’s collection. Located in the Education Center entrance.
Autograph Signing Guest author Darlene Kronschnabel will be here to sign her latest cookbook “Seasons in a Country Kitchen”, available for sale in our gift shop. Times: 1:30-4:30pm
Art Exhibit
War, Art and the Vietnam Veteran art exhibit in lower level.
Caution: The artwork in this exhibit was made by veterans of war and the depictions of their experience is poignant and uncensored.
Belgian Farm Activities
Sheep Shearing
Enjoy watching the sheep get their winter coats removed. 10:00am until they are all sheared. Come early!
Wool Preparation Skirting, washing, dyeing, carding & spinning the wool into yarn.
Goat Milking Demonstrations
Try your hand at milking a goat! For sanitation purposes, please utilize the hand washing stations that will be located in the farm area after handling the animals.
Children’s Weaving Project Try your hand at weaving on a lap loom.
Frontier Farmers Watch them work the soil and tend to their horse teams.
Butter Making
Learn how to make your own butter then have a taste!
Fort Activities
Pony Rides Children will enjoy having fun riding the adorable ponies provided by Stone Creek Riding. Located on the north side of the Fort. Cost: $2.00 per ride
Petting Zoo See the animals located between the Cheese Factory and the Fort, courtesy of the Wrightstown 4H Club, Bay Area Humane Society and Alpaca Magic.
Historic Games
On the Fort parade ground.
Woodworking
Northeast Wisconsin Woodworker’s Guild will
demonstrate various wood craft techniques in the
Fort Hospital.
General Park Activities
Blacksmith Shop Watch the blacksmith perform his craft creating useable iron works. Items available for sale in our gift shop.
Tank Cottage Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Tank Cottage is open for tours all day.
May Pole Take your turn dancing around the May Pole in celebration of Spring and learn about this spring tradition. The May Pole is located in the Town area.
Antique Cars Enjoy these treasures from the past located on the Town Green.
Parking
Parking is free and we have over flow parking at the Cerebal Palsy Center (2801 S Webster Ave) with a free shuttle bus taking people up to the front door of Heritage Hill. We ask our guests to plan ahead and arrive early.