2015
SPECIAL EVENTS AT
SALT FORK STATE PARK
KENNEDY STONE HOUSE
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
The 2016 Season.
APRIL 30:
ANNUAL WILDFLOWER WALK
Did our winter keep you prisoner this past season? Are you ready to break out and enjoy the warmth of spring? If you’re within driving distance of Salt Fork State Park, now is the chance you have been waiting for!
We’re having the Annual Wildflower Walk again this year. It will be held at the Kennedy Stone House trail. Last year many attended the walk and over twenty different flowers were identified with the help of the park naturalist who will return this year to lead the walk.
Wear comfortable shoes because the trail is 1.3 miles long and ends at the beautiful Kennedy Stone House. A double treat will await you with docent Al Arabia and family meeting you at the end of your walk to guide you through the Kennedy Stone House Museum. Drinks and refreshments will be served following your tour.
The house has attained state-wide recognition and is entering its 11th year of celebrating the history of Guernsey County and has provided tours for thousands of visitors. If you make it to the walk, you will have a jump on the general public because the museum does not officially open until May 6th this year.
So, come on out for the day!
Date: April 30, 2016
Time: 2:00 pm
Place to meet: Salt Fork State Park, Route 1, parking lot for the Kennedy Stone House trail
May 13-16
1:00 – 5:00 pm
LEARN ABOUT TEACHERS
OF THE 1800’S
Come learn what it was like to be a schoolteacher in the 1800’s! Take a look at the old textbooks and a list of rules for teachers from the 1800’s! Docents will discuss the duties of teachers of yesteryear and the place the school had in the community.
MAY 20-23
1:00 – 5:00 pm
DEMONSTRATION OF
HOW CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
WERE MADE IN THE EARLY 1800s
The Docents are going to make Christmas ornaments that would be on a tree during the 1840 to the 1850 time period. Ornaments were for sale on the East Coast from other countries, and some ornaments were made in the eastern states, but they were not available in Ohio. So folks made their own!
Watch as the Docents demonstrate making some of the ornaments, perhaps string popcorn, make paper chains, pine cone clusters, bunches of dried flowers, string dried apple and oranges for the tree. Thread will be glued to Queen Ann's lace,they will decorate blown out eggs, perhaps make cinnamon starsor paper molded designs. We will try to do all of this the same way they did it in 1840! There will be opportunities for visitors to help make some of these decorations too!
JUNE 3-6
1:00 – 5:00 PM
DULCIMER PLAYING BY DOCENT (AND YOU!)
And ANY VISITORS WHO WISH TO TRY THE SKILL (especially children).
Come and listen and learn to play a song on a mountain dulcimer, a four stringed instrument that is traditional to the Appalachians. The dulcimer is held on the lap and strummed. You (adults and children) can learn to pay a tune during your visit to the Stone House Museum. And while you’re at it, give the limberjacks a try! Limberjacks are little jointed wooden men that you (adults and children) can make dance in time to the music! The docents love to see the smiles when people play a tune on the dulcimer or make the limberjacks dance! The docents will provide directions on how to make limberjacks at home. Do you have one of those mysterious instruments that many people have but not so many can really figure out how to play? A harmonica! Bring it along and the docent will help you play a tune. Don’t be bashful…come and join the fun!
JULY 1-4
1:00 – 5:00 PM
HANDCRAFTS OF YESTERYEAR
The Toothbrush Rug is an old fashioned way of crocheting a rug with a stick created with what we now use as a toothbrush, using strips of fabric or recycling old garments or household linens. Watch the ladies crocheting shawls, and making handmade rugs while enjoying the ambiance of the colonial life in the hills of south eastern Ohio!
MONTH OF JULY
CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IN JULY
AT THE STONE HOUSE
JULY 8-11
JULY 15-18
JULY 22-25
1:00 - 5:00 PM
AUGUST 26-29
1:00 – 5:00 PM
ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL WILL BE ON EXHIBIT THIS WEEK
SEPTEMBER 2-5
1:00 – 5:00 PM
A PRIVATE COLLECTOR’S PRINTS OF ANDREW WYETH ART PUBLISHED IN THE LATE 1980s WILL BE ON VIEW THIS WEEK
SEPTEMBER 9-12
1:00-5:00 PM
PAINTED STONE MEMENTOS
Our docent hand paints stones to give tothe children as mementos of their visit to the Stone House. However, before she gives them their stones, she asks them to find nice flat stones on the museum grounds to “trade” her for the painted stones! The children enjoy choosing their special stonesfrom the assortment! (And our docent has a new supply of stones to paint!)
OCTOBER 14-17
1:00 – 5:00 PM
LEARN ABOUT TEACHERS
OF THE 1800’S
Come learn what it was like to be a schoolteacher in the 1800’s! Take a look at the old textbooks and a list of rules for teachers from the 1800’s! Docents will discuss the duties of teachers of yesteryear and the place the school had in the community.
OCTOBER 21-24
1:00 – 5:00 PM
LAST FOUR DAYS TO VISIT THE STONE HOUSE
We close October 25 for the 2016 Season.
Visit us in 2017 when we open again in May.
