Monday – July 6, 2015
Hand Crafted Evening in the Park, Friday, July 10
Ozark folk are known for their strong tradition of fine craftsmanship. The crafts people at the Ozark Folk Center State Park continue this tradition by creating fine functional and decorative handmade items in their workshops in the park. On Friday, July 10, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., the Ozark Folk Center State Park crafts people would like to invite you to a Handcrafted Evening in the Park.
During the Handcrafted Evening, resident crafts people will share a side of their working studios that you don’t see during the regular day. In addition to demonstrating how they create their crafts, they will talk about how they connected with their craft, and the details of crafting in the modern world.
Start your visit in the Homespun Gift Shop where a variety of contemporary Arkansas crafts people have consigned their works for sale.The Gift Shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the Handcrafted Evening on July 10.
Shapenote singers convene July 9-11
Shapenote singers will gather this week with instructors Gaylon Powell and Dan Brittain, both well known in the nationwide Sacred Harp and Shapenote world. Holly Ruth Gale and Charley Sandage will assist.
This gathering celebrates, teaches, and practices the uniquely American tradition of shape-note singing; reading choral music (mostly hymns) in scales with each tone represented in a different shape. The tradition began in the New England colonies and moved across the country with the frontier, taking deep roots across the American South. During the last twenty-five years it has spread widely, with singing groups in major cities in all parts of the US and in the British Isles, parts of Europe, and the Far East.
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Yarb Tales – Seed Collecting
This week there are many seeds ready for harvest in the garden and many in the landscape that threaten to shatter and populate next season’s garden with unwanted invaders.
In the Kitchen Garden the poppies, cilantro (coriander) and chervil plants are dispersing their seed. They appear dead. In fact, the plants are no longer living but they didn’t die so much as they completed their cycle of life. I realize there is only a frog’s hair of difference between the two states. The gardener’s difference is if they had died from disease or an overwhelming pest attack, they would have been pulled long ago. I allow them to stand in a non-living state because they are finishing a process. The seed must ripen and be ready for dispersal before I can collect it for replanting or packaging for sale.
A clean 5-gallon bucket or large paper sacks are handy seed-collecting tools. I set the receptacle down next to the plant, bend the tops into the opening and cut the stems. Then I bash the tops from side to side. Most of the seed fall right in. Before I get to them, many seeds fall on to the mulch or soil surface of the bed and will wait to germinate until conditions are right. How lovely to get an early start on next spring’s crop.
Rain has been so plentiful that it is a great year to be a plant and a gardener. Please bring some gardening buddies over to the Ozark Folk Center State Park for a stroll through the Heritage Herb Garden.
The Heritage Herb Garden at the Ozark Folk Center graces the park with visual colors and textures, sweet and pungent aromas, and helps us to interpret the history of the human use of plants.
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Skillet Restaurant Specials This Week
Served 11:00 to 4:00
Crispy Chicken Salad
a bed of fresh salad mix topped with tomatoes, shredded cheese,
sliced red onions, croutons and crispy fried chicken breast served with your choice of dressing
for $6.95
OR
Taco Salad
served in a homemade eatable tortilla bowl, shredded cheddar, diced tomatoes, and side of sour cream, made with fresh herbs & ground beef for $7.95
Friday Nights in July
Your choice of Herb Marinated Top Sirloin Steak
or
Grilled Tilapia
with baked potato, dinner roll and one trip salad bar $15.95
Saturday Nights in July
PRIME RIB
A fresh tender cut of Prime Beef marinated in fresh herb butter,
(sure to melt in your mouth)
served with a baked potato and one trip salad bar $17.95
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Performing this Week
Tuesday, July 7
Noon Program: Mary Gillihan – Women of Mountain Music
Daytime: Sheryl Irvine
Wednesday, July 8
Noon Program: Tina Marie Wilcox – Garden Tours
Daytime: Twang
Evening: Twang, Chinkypin, Prestin Garey, Peck of Peppy Pickers, Wharf Rats
Thursday, July 9
Noon Program: Shawn Hoefer – Smitty the Cowboy Poet
Daytime: Possum Juice
Evening: Upjumpers, Tall Timber, Ruby Pines, Jon Birkey, Bob Olivera
Friday, July 10
Noon Program: Kathleen Connole – Native Plants and Native Peoples
Daytime: Sibling Rivalry
Evening: Duane Porterfield, Sibling Rivalry, Shapenote Singers, Keith Symanowitz, Lazy Goat Stringband
Saturday, July 11
Noon Program: Jeanette Larson Spinning Tales
Daytime: Grace Stormont
Evening: Mary Parker & Friends, Old Timers, Dave Branscecum, Possum Juice, Robert & Mary Gillihan
Noon program on the Bessie Moore Deck next to the School HouseDaytime Musicians on the Blacksmith Stage at 10:15 / 11:15 / 12:15 1:45 / 2:45 / 3:45
Craft Village – Tuesday – Saturday. Open 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission $12.00 for adults and $7.00 for children 6-12, children under 6 are free. Family pass is $29.50.
Evening Concerts – Wednesday – Saturday. Doors open at 6:00, Concert begins at 7:00. Admission $12.00 for adults and $7.00 for children 6-12, children under 6 are free. Family pass is $29.50.
A season pass includes both Crafts and Music $75 for adults and $35 for children 6-12.
Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day- good old southern country cooking
Homespun Gift Shop
Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – featuring items from Arkansas crafters
Cabins at Dry Creek
Open daily & year-around for comfortable, quiet lodging
Loco Ropes
Highline Adventure open 7-days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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