Heritage Days

Heritage Days is a unique experience. It's two full days of colonial foods, crafts, demonstrations and lectures that will help visitors of all ages better understand the lives of the early settlers in the area. Our goal is to pass this heritage from one generation to the next, and to the next, and to the next!

 Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Days- held the first full weekend in October, is an annual celebration of the traditional crafts and daily activities of the people who settled in Central Pennsylvania. Interpreters in period costume demonstrate the activities of daily life from colonial times through the 1870s.

Visitors have the opportunity to view an encampment of Revolutionary soldiers, watch a tinsmith at work, see flax turned into linen, visit Grandma on wash day, see a cabinet maker building furniture, and learn to trace one's genealogy. Demonstrations and activities at Heritage Days vary each year. Although some craftspeople sell their wares, the emphasis is on education.

The many cooking demonstrations entice visitors to sample foods our ancestors thought common. On antique cook stoves and over open hearths, foods such as schnitz and knepp, pig stomach, pies, and corn fritters are prepared. Demonstrators willingly share each food's history and its significance to our ancestors.

Lectures, displays, and games for children make this a day for the whole family. Lunch may be purchased on the grounds. Tours of the Historic Warrior Run Church and cemetery, as well as the restored Hower-Slote House, are always a highlight.  

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