We are pleased to announce that the Athens Community Council on Aging’s Retired & Senior Volunteer Program in partnership with ACC Leisure Services’ Lyndon House Arts Center is hosting the 37th Annual Harvest Festival. For the past three decades, the Harvest Festival has provided demonstrations of domestic skills and crafts of the 19th century as an intergenerational sharing of knowledge. School age children have enjoyed educational demonstrations weaving, broom-making, butter churning, knitting, crocheting, felt-making, quilting, storytelling, wood carving, and the making corn husk dolls, soap and pottery. There will be interactive arts and crafts, and students can observe farm animals and learn about their use and care. Tours of the historic Ware-Lyndon House (c. 1850) will also be available. Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your students’ knowledge of history right in your own backyard!
There is no fee for the festival and all exhibits are free. Classes are encouraged to bring a lunch and have a picnic on the lawn under one of the many shade trees. If children wish to bring spending money, there will be light concessions as well as small souvenirs of the festival available for sale. We continue to provide this festival free of charge because we believe it is important for the youth of today to have a hands-on opportunity to learn about how things were done “way back when.”
The Harvest Festival will be held on Thursday, October 13, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at both of our locations on Hoyt Street. We hope to see you there!
