SPECIAL EVENT: OLD SKILLS DAY – SUNDAY 23rd OCTOBER

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10.00am to 12.00pm Ticket Office opened – purchase Animal Feed Tickets: $2.00 for a Bag of Grain and a Carrot    
 

10.00am to 3.00pm

Ticket Office opened – purchase tickets for rides

Pioneer Express:  $5.00pp

Village Express: $2.00pp

Tractor Rides – Hay/Wagon: $3.00pp

Children under 3 – no charge

10.00am to 12.00pmVisit the Outdoor Cooking area behind Mangold Cottage:

Try a Puftaloon, help turn cream into Butter using a Butter Churner, try our Homemade Lemonade, Try getting flour out of wheat, rice, dried corn kernels, try Billy Tea

10.00am to 11.00amGet your Convict ID Card near Riverstone Police Station – all Children in The Village should have a Convict ID Card
11.30amTake part in a 19th Century Church Service
12.00pmAnimal Feed Walk – beginning at Church
1.30pmLaundry Demonstration
2-30pmVisit the Marsden Park School House to hear about schooling in the 1800s
Other Activities throughout the Day:

·         Visit the Light Horse Brigade – A Troop

·         Have a ride on a Penny Farthing

·         Visit the Blacksmith

·         Visit the Smelting Shed

·         Visit the Carpentry Shed

·         Visit the Wood Turners – see how to use a lathe and more

·         Visit the Fruit Grader area

·         Play games from the 19th Century:  Jacks, Marbles, Croquet, Coits, Skipping, Hoops

Dress up in our old fashioned clothing @ the Gazette Office for $5.00 per person and  wonder The Village while taking your own photos