Volunteers are needed to help with concessions, parking and admissions at this family fall festival at our historic living history plantation.
You may work a 4 hour shift or the entire day. If you work the entire day, lunch will be provided.
Event description:
Enjoy fall family fun at this living history event exploring farm-related activities that occurred in the fall to prepare for winter in the Carolina Piedmont during the 19th century.
- Apple butter
- Historic cooking—cornmeal, apples, pork, pumpkin, greens, popcorn
- Storyteller Tim Lowry
- Food preservation: drying, pickling, sugar preservation
- 4H petting zoo
- Woodworking
- Blacksmithing
- Corn shelling/grinding
- Cotton-picking
- Children’s Games: Corn Pit, "Find the Button," apple bobbing, relay races
- Historic cotton ginning
- Barnyard tours
- Living history in the Homestead & Col. Bratton Houses
