2025 Annual Conference
Thu, Jan 16
|Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms
Time & Location
Jan 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – Jan 18, 2025, 11:00 PM
Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms, Pioneer Farms Dr, Austin, TX 78754, USA
Guests
About the event
Annual Conference of the Texas Living History Association in 2025
Come and participate in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Texas Living History Association, taking place at the picturesque Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms. You will have a variety of field trips, workshops, and sessions to select from.
Tickets
- Sale ends: Jan 18, 2025, 11:00 PM
Conference Attendee
$135.00+$3.38 service fee Wood Burning Cook Stove
Learn why stoves behave differently based on their features and structure. Attendees will work with a cook stove to learn the basics of wood stove cooking and baking, how to read a recipe for a cook stove, common troubleshooting tips, and basic maintenance and care all while making a few yummy recipes for themselves.
$20.00+$0.50 service feeTimber Hewing
In this workshop we will guide participants through how to hew timbers by hand. Participants will learn how to properly size, score, and hew a timber to the desired dimensions. This will be a physical workshop, and participants will walk away with some sore muscles. Required items: Clothes they don't mind getting dirty, closed-toed shoes -- boots are encouraged -- Gloves, water. Tools needed: Broad axes, felling/scoring axes, log dogs, chalk lines, chalk, and carpenter squares.
$50.00+$1.25 service feeToiletries Bag
After getting your clothes and accessories, you need period containers for all your articles to take to events. Why not start with a toiletry bag? These little articles are great for carrying a woman's hair supplies, soap, hairpins, et cetera for overnight use. Participants will receive supplies for making a bag for either an 1830s toilet bag or an 1860s toilet bag. Bags may be hand sewn or participants may bring their own sewing machine if desired.
$20.00+$0.50 service feeRe-use and Re-Cycle
In 1875 "The American Agriculturist" noted that "Canned fruits and vegetables are now put on the large scale at such cheap rates that many families prefer to purchase such articles to put them up themselves and there are but few who do not have more or less cans during the year. The old cans seem too good to throw away and as there is no sale for them, they accumulate, as but few are found useful in the kitchen or workshop." Here is a way to provide a bit of comfort from those cans.
$0.00Tresses Transformed
A workshop geared toward mainly the female reenactor who wants to be correct for events but also weaar a modern hairstyle for their day-to-day life.
$0.00Historic Hearth
Workshop that will allow participants to utilize hands-on experience in historical blacksmithing. They will recreate metal skewers and a wall-mounted skewer holder based on an a classic 18th Century design from Essex County, MA.
$50.00+$1.25 service feeWhat's For Dinner
How to plan, prepare, and cook a historical meal, where to find recipes, how to use historical records to select and prepare foodstuffs and supplies.
$5.00+$0.13 service feeUFO Sewing Projects
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.
$0.00Heritage Tools
Experience the art of historical blacksmithing by crafting essential tools that were once everyday necessities.
$50.00+$1.25 service feeFlint Knapping
$10.00+$0.25 service feeHistoric cemetery
Learn how to properly clean headstones at a historic cemetery to preserve them for future generations. Periodic cleaning of headstones is necessary to keep the carving legible.
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