School days - history event

The Camp, complete with Scottish Highland skull and horns. The hide is inside the tent.

a wider camp view

teaching about the trade axe

We participated in the White Oak school days, history learning days.  It is a fun event and the school children get a chance to actually do things. It has several stations of learning through the ages. The time frame is from the 1500's up until the fur trade era of 1798.  My son told them about the history behind the trade axe or tomahawk and demonstrated his throwing ability.  The children also got the opportunity to try their hand at throwing the trade axe at targets. This is a fun and entertaining event for children to learn history and try things they only read about in books. There were medieval mercenaries and a fur trade era fort complete with store and bakery, and just outside the fort was a story teller and blackpowder shoot and trade axe or tomahawk throwing.  It was a beautiful day for adventure.

The Scottish Highland cattle were imported to the US just after fur trade era, but they were very well know and used by the medieval mercenaries.  They would travel with their own herds to be used as beef and milk and dairy products such as cheese and butter. Not to mention their hides for warmth.

  We hope to get a permanent fence put up on site so we can bring the Scottish Highland cattle and hopefully Red Wattle pigs and Dorset /cross sheep too!  White Oak also does a much bigger and week long event in August.  This event brings in many traders from all over the US.  It is a fun time to get together and swap goods and stories of adventure. Especially for those of us who rarely wander far from home.