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Trails of Time: An Oregon Living History Festival
Join us for a family-friendly gathering with history interpreters, acitivities, live music, meet-a-goat, and indigenous storytelling and food. Local history educators and enthusiasts will be on hand dressed in the time period they are portaying and doing authentic chores, activities and crafts. Learn to wash clothes on a washboard, sit in a canoe with the fur traders, and listen to Native stories in the cedar plankhouse.
Our friend Deitrich Peters and his family members (from Grand Ronde) will be there to talk with you about Native culture today and show some items of regalia, play flute and do some Native storytelling. He may even bring a tipi to set up near the plankhouse, weather permitting.
Admission: FREE
Bring some cash to buy food, raffle tickets or handmade historical items. Bring your own water bottle as there is no drinking fountain on site.
Bring clean returnable bottles and cans to donate to CASA of Lane County.
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Download the event flyer (PDF)
Our presenters/activities include:
Lane County History Museum
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Karen Haas Storytelling and Songs
Black history posters from Oregon Black Pioneers
Pioneer Cabin and washing clothes on a washboard
Grinding grains
Native American Culture- flute, drum, stories
Canoe ride (on land- get your photo taken)
Pet a dwarf goat
Covered Wagon- Historical demos
Spinning wheel and weaving demos
and more!
This is a drug and alcohol free event. Please do not bring dogs or other pets. The festival area in on a gravel path and most activities will be outside, please dress for the weather.
Directions: 205 Dorris St. Springfield, OR (see google maps to get to Dorris Ranch)
VENDORS and Handicapped Parking: When you pull into the driveway, turn left and go to the upper parking lot. Vendors will be asked to move their cars to the bottom lot after unloading.
ATTENDEES Parking:
Pull into the driveway and either go straight toward the Tomseth House for parking or go right and park near the barn. Follow the gravel path next to the Tomseth house up a short ways, then you will see the village entrance.
To inquire about being a part of the festival or for more information please contact Karen Rainsong: director@singingcreekcenter.org, 541 968-1986.
PRESS: Download the June 20th press release
BRING YOUR BOTTLES AND CANS
Please bring your clean, dry, empty returnable (10 cents) cans and bottles for CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates for children. We want to help them raise money for the important work they do in our community.
Thank you to our generous festival sponsors!
At the festival: Meet urban goatherd Angela Petty and her two Nigerian Dwarf goats, Oak and Orion! Oak and Orion are male “wethers,” so they don’t produce milk. Instead, they are small-scale urban land stewards! They graze and browse in neighborhood backyards, alleys, and green spaces. Along with prescribed burning, herbivores can support natural ecosystems by eating blackberries and other invasive-species, removing fuel loads, sequestering carbon, providing disturbance, and fertilizing. Oak and Orion also enjoy engaging with human friends through events, school visits, and public grazing.