2024 Annual Conference
Thu, Jan 18
|Sam Houston Memorial Museum
Time & Location
Jan 18, 2024, 8:00 AM – Jan 20, 2024, 10:00 PM
Sam Houston Memorial Museum , 1402 19th Street, Huntsville Texas
Guests
Schedule
8 hoursField Trip: Home Sweet Huntsville
8 hoursField Trip: San Jacinto: Behind the Scenes and Battlefield Tours
Tickets
Annual Conference Registration
$120.00+$3.00 service feeSale endedSaturday Night Banquet ONLY
This ticket is for your spouse/guest that is NOT registered for the conference. Regular conference registration includes one ticket to the Saturday banquet.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedFT: San Jacinto
On a chilly April afternoon in 1836, this strip of coastal prairie rang with the boom of cannon, crack of musket fire and shouts of “Remember the Alamo!” and “Remember Goliad!” Despite being outnumbered, General Sam Houston’s army of settlers, Tejanos and foreign volunteers decisively defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s forces and won Texas’s independence. Today, the 1,300-acre site, San Jacinto Museum and the 567-foot-tall San Jacinto Monument celebrate their s Lunch is on your own.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedFT: Caddo Mounds/Nacogdoches
Caddo Mound State Historic Site is the southwestern-most ceremonial center for the great Mound Builder culture. Today, three mounds exist at the site. One of the mounds was used for burials. There is also a reconstruction of a switch grass house and Snake Woman’s Garden. Continue on to visit sites in Nacogdoches including the Sterne Hoya Museum and Library. Lunch is on your own at the City First Cafe located in the historic Fredonia Hotel.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedFT: College Station..
This tour will visit three different places within the Bryan-College Station area, the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, George H.W. Bush Museum and Presidential Library and Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Site. The Conservation Research Laboratory is where the Alamo cannons were restored, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s ship La Belle was restored after being found in Matagorda Bay in 1997. Lunch is on your own.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedBehind the Scenes
Take a white glove tour with the opportunity to see artifacts and documents up close and personal. See documents from the early American Republic, letters from the Texas Revolution and the Texas Republic era along with other objects in our collection that relate to Sam Houston and Texas history.
$0.00Sold OutWorkshop: Victorian Jewelry
This would be a lecture/workshop on choosing appropriate jewelry for historic reenactment, focusing on the Victorian era. While it will focus heavily on a lecture, complete with pictures of original Victorian jewelry pieces, there would be a hands-on component. I would bring appropriate jewelry pieces for people to examine in person, and people could bring their own jewelry to determine its appropriateness.
$0.00Sale endedWorkshop: Keebies Cap Sewing
A half a day workshop to learn techniques and start a daycap based on Marna’s Pattern Booklet “Auntie Keebie’s Caps”. Marna will also have some early sunbonnets available based on techniques used to create these caps. One cap pattern is included.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Spinning
Participants will travel out to Joy Matchett’s farm where she houses everything associated with spinning and fiber arts. Participants will have the opportunity to spin on different wheels and learn the differences between the wheels. A great wheel will be available as well as a single drive, double drive, single treadle, double treadle, and Scotch tension spinning wheels. Several types of looms will be set up for those interested in trying their hands at weaving.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Pottery
This hands on and interactive class is a basic introduction to hand building and wheel thrown work. The hand building will be both coil and slab work. The class will be geared towards teen age to adults, lasting approximately two hours. Wear appropriate clothes that you are not afraid to get dirty in!
$20.00+$0.50 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Black Powder
In this hands on and interactive workshop, several different types of black powder firearms will be available for participants to try shooting if they wish, including flintlock muskets, flintlock pistols, and caplock rifles. Participants will learn proper safety procedures as well as the history and use of each weapon over time. A history of black powder itself and its use throughout history will also be discussed.
$5.00+$0.13 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Blacksmith
Participants will get hands-on experience in running a coal fire, heating iron, and forging shapes. This workshop is tailored for the interpreter to learn how to apply these basics to a contextually appropriate demonstration at their site. The class will make things based on the individual student's previous experience and content can be adjusted to serve beginner or intermediate skill levels. Students will leave with the work they create. Students must wear natural fiber clothing, closed toed
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSold OutUFO: Unfinished Object
Do you need time to finish that dress you’re wearing to Saturday night’s banquet? Do you have a problem project that could use a second pair of eyes? Do you need encouragement and company to get that one project collecting dust in the corner of your closet done? Join us for an informal sewing circle where we sit, catch up, and get some things done!
$0.00Sale endedWorkshop: Plowing with Equines
PLEASE NOTE: You will NOT be doing any actual plowing. Want to add equine to your program? This class is your starting point. Learn basic needs including facility requirements, personnel, equipment, horse and mule differences, training needs, feed, care, safety, and more. Discuss equine related costs including a basic budget outline. Discover a variety of alternatives and opportunities to include equine at a lower cost.
$20.00+$0.50 service feeSale ended
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