The Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park in Tazewell, Virginia, sponsors a July 4 festival every year, filling the Park area with displays, demonstrations, and re-enactors. (Larger versions of the images are available at my Web site,
Backcountry Notes.)
Period costumes (center) and displays (background):
Antique car slow-riding through the Park:
Carriage barn:
Interior of carriage barn has displays of old tools, equipment, saddles, ironwork . . .
. . . and carriages:
Games demonstrated include lawn bowling:
Making apple butter - - Virginia law permits this to be done using a traditional copper kettle:
Blacksmithing demonstration:
Carpentry demonstration - - cutting stool legs with traditional hand tools:
Bunting decks out the Pickin' Porch where traditional music is performed:
Scene set for Revolutionary War re-enactment:
Re-enactor discussing brass cannon with visitor:
And now we've strolled around the Pioneer Park to where we began:
And of course there was Southern Gourmet food available - - barbecue, beans, cole slaw, blooming onions and deep-fried pickles!
For a closer look at the vintage log buildings of Pioneer Park, see the picture gallery at Crab Orchard Museum.
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