Registration Deadline Extended for Cedar Flute Making Class

Learn from Coyote Clay (Paul Pitt) and make your own beautiful looking and sounding cedar flute in this 5 day class June 1 – 5, 2015. There is still room in this class. Sign up by May 29 for your chance to make your own cedar flute.

Your flutes will have a wonderful voice. You’ll learn how to  form and tune your flute with a chromatic electronic device. You will learn precision craftsmanship that will allow anyone who truly wants to play sweet melodies from these trees which live again.

In addition to performance quality, these musical instruments will also meet your special standard as individual works of art. You will carve three-dimensional forms with numerous designs and shapes that you choose to burn into their surfaces. You will then finish your beautiful instrument with a special beeswax blend. I invite you to participate in the relaxing peace these flutes can give.

Register now to learn to make your own beautiful, melodic cedar flute.

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Yarb Tales – Take Thyme

Thyme comes in varied forms and aromas. Garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris is the sub-shrub most used for culinary purposes; our favorite in the kitchen is French thyme sometimes referred to as ‘Narrow-leaf French’. Lemon thyme is delicious in tea, beverages, desserts and salad dressings. Thymus herba-barona is caraway-scented and used to season barons of beef, especially in England, and is also good with cabbage in coleslaw.

The plants are native to the Mediterranean region and enjoy sandy, rocky soil, full sun and well-drained sites. Ozark gardens can provide all of these requirements; however care must be given to keep other garden specimens at a respectable distance and fastidiously remove fallen tree leaves to prevent fungal diseases and death by suffocation. Mulch around the plants in the spring and fall with coarse sand mixed with a little crushed oyster shell. White sand, which can be obtained from Unimin Corporation at Guion, Arkansas, is perfect for thyme and other Mediterranean herbs. This sand reflects light into the lower parts of the plants, keeps the roots cool and moist and is an attractive mulch under Mediterranean green and gray plants.

Taking time in the garden to groom, prune and shape these plants is rewarding. Meticulous weeding is necessary to stop competition for soil nutrients, reveal the form and beauty of thyme and to avoid fungal diseases that flourish when air circulation is curtailed.
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Skillet Restaurant Specials This Week

The Skillet Restaurant is open  7-days-a-week from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Skillet Restaurant Lunch Specials

Served 11:30 to 4:00

May 26-June 1

Loaded BBQ Baked Potato

( fresh bacon bits, chives, shredded cheddar, side of sour cream)

with one trip salad bar

$6.95

or

Crab Salad Stuffed Tomato with fruit cup & Crackers $7.95

Friday Nights in May & June

Crab Stuffed Salmon with baked potato or Salt Cured Ham Steak

 dinner roll, one trip salad bar
$15.95

Saturday Nights in May & June

PRIME RIB – A fresh tender cut of Prime Beef marinated in fresh herb butter,
served with a baked potato and one trip salad bar
$17.95

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Performing this Week

Craft Village – Open 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday. 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.

Noon program on the Bessie Moore Deck next to the School House

Daytime Musicians are located on the stage behind the Large Auditorium at  10:15 / 11:15 / 12:15 / 1:45 / 2:45 / 3:45

Tuesday, May 26

Noon Program – Mary Gillihan – Women of Mountain Music

Daytime Musicians – Sheryl Irvine

Evening Concert – Closed

Wednesday, May 27

Noon Program – Tina Marie Wilcox – Widder Wilcox

Daytime Musicians – Dave Branscecum

Evening Concert (doors open at 6:00, concert begins at 7:00) –
  • Possum Juice,
  • Bess Kelley & Friends,
  • Peck of Peppy Pickers,
  • Scott Poole & Gabi Pervis,
  • Prestin Garey

Thursday, May 28

Noon Program – Shawn Hoefer – Obadiah T. Fassbinder and his modern medical miracle

Daytime Musicians – Glover Family

Evening Concert
  • Backwoods Arkansaw,
  • Upjumpers,
  • Harmony,
  • Jon Birkey,
  • Kathy Jensen

Friday, May 29

Noon Program – Kathleen Connole – Native Plants and Native Peoples

Daytime Musicians – Nathan Cobb & Friends

Evening Concert
Carolyn Carter,
Rebecca & Uncle Russell,
Scrap Iron,
Pretty Little Miss

Saturday, May 30

Young Pioneers children 7-14 for more information click here for schedule click here

Noon Program – Jeanette Larson – Spinning Tales

Daytime Musician – Old Timers

Evening Concert 

  •   Feature Concert Johnny Cash Tribute WS “Fluke” Holland
  •         Charlie White
Schedule Subject to Change
Skillet Restaurant –  Open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. – 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.

Attend the Feature Concerts by using your season pass! Season passes are good for Craft Village and Evening Concerts and are $75 for adults, $35 for children 6-12.

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