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EVENT SCHEDULE 2019 - 2020

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SAVE THE DATE for our wonderful upcoming events!

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Scarecrow Festival                                                                          October 12, 2019

*A wonderful Fall Festival! The museum's largest event of the year and so much fun!

Build your own scarecrow (while supplies last, you may bring your own clothes if you like), Scarecrow clothes provided by Hospice and Solutions Thrift Stores and other wonderful donors. (This is a fundraiser for Special Olympics and the museum.) Over 100 amazing vendors and delicious food. Too many fun activities to list them all.

*Live entertainment * Mr. Tommy Show *Traditional Craft demonstrations FREE *Touch - a - truck  *Barrel train rides through the crazy eight corn maze!  *Petting zoo  *Face painting  *Pumpkin patch, pumpkin painting ), photo opportunities  *Bounce house, slide, and new this year, Paw Patrol from 2-4 p.m.

*Carnival games with prizes *Pony rides *Too many activities to list! *FREE Professional photos (children and families)  First come, first serve basis. Photos will be posted on Facebook the following week for guests to download. More information will be posted soon.

*Blacksmith demonstrations *All museum buildings open, docents in period costumes

*FREE parking with the Sheriff's Mounted Posse (donations appreciated, but not necessary.

*There is also FREE remote parking at the Robert Sumner Judicial Courthouse 38053 Live Oak Avenue, Dade City. Bus transportation to and from the event. You will be dropped off and picked up right at the gate of the event.

This event has been going on for many years and is one of the museums largest events of the year. Regular museum ADMISSION.

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Living History, Civil War                                           November 22*, 23, 24, 2019

School Day Field Trips Only November 22, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Must Pre-register and pre-pay (unless other arrangements have been made.)

Encampments & Re-enactments November 23 and 24, 2019 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Live entertainment throughout the day, great food, traditional craft demonstrations, museum village open with docents in period attire. Bring your lawn chairs, grab your spot for the reenactment, lunch from the concession stand, enjoy music from the 7 lbs of Bacon Mess Band prior to the battle. More information posted soon.

Raid on the Salt Works 2:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday

It’s November 1864, the anachonda grip of the US Military is choking the life out of the Confederacy. Lee is bottled up in Richmond and Petersburg along with the Florida Brigade, inlcuding remnants of the 2nd, 5th and 8th Florida. Atlanta fell back in July and Sherman is now marching unchecked through Georgia, burning everything in his army’s path. The tattered remnants of the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee, including the dwindling ranks of the 4th, 6th and 7th Florida, are on one final and fateful march north, about to be sacrificed at the breastworks outside Franklin and Nashville.

On the Gulf Coast of Florida Union raids are becoming more frequent and ferocious. Ever since the fall of Vicksburg in July of 1863, Confederate armies are now cut off from supply routes across the Mississippi. They are increasingly more dependent on the goods Florida produces like cattle, turpentine, citrus and salt. Salt was the lifeblood of any mid-19th Century army. It was one of the only ways to preserve food and was also used in curing leather. In New Orleans, at the beginning of the war, a 200-pound sack of salt cost 50 cents. By 1862, it was up to $25. A Confederate private made $11 per month. A salt works operation near Saint Joseph’s Bay, near present-day Panama City was capable of producing 150 bushels of salt per day but that operation was discovered and destroyed in 1862.

The Pioneer Florida Museum & Village’s 2019 Living History and battle reenactment follows the opening moments of various operations by the US Navy, Marines and infantry companies from many of the newly-formed United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments against salt works operations between Cedar Key and Tampa Bay.

The way most raids would transpire was Union troops would show up, chase off the salt workers and perhaps some militia or Home Guards, then proceed to wreck the operation. In the museum’s 2019 scenario, lead elements from some the aforementioned units clash with salt workers and a handful of armed guards, chasing them through a nearby rail station, a patch of corn stalks and off the field. As the Union troops are wrecking the salt works operation, a hastily assembled group of Confederate units that might have included dismounted elements of the 2nd and 5th Florida Cavalry as well as members of the 1st Florida Reserve, Home Guards and state militia, rallies to the scene. The Confederates drive off the Union vanguard and re-take the salt works but no sooner are they repairing the salt works operation than Union artillery opens up. Full companies step into line and a pitched battle ensues as each side rushes any available units to the area.

In our 2019 presentation Raid on the Salt Works, the confrontation becomes more about pride than about salt. Weary of hit-and-run tactics, the Union soldiers want to stand toe-to-toe with their Confederate counterparts and take their measure. With the walls of their new nation collapsing around them, the desperate Confederates fight ever more fanatically. Who will prevail in this test of wills?

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Country Christmas and Vintage Market              December 7, 2019

December 7, 2019, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

See the museum buildings decorated for Christmas by the talented Dade City Garden Club! 
FREE Photos w/Santa from 1 - 3 p.m., unique and amazing vintage vendors for that perfect Christmas gift, FREE Christmas cookies and punch (while supplies last), food trucks/vendors, live entertainment, silent auction baskets, and more. Bring a stocking stuffer or gift to donate for a senior citizen in need and your admission is $5. More information will be posted soon.

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Raising Cane, A Sweet & Spicy Event                                        January 11, 2020

SUGAR CANE SYRUP FESTIVAL - Sugar Cane Syrup Making & a Southern Syrup Makers Association Sugar Cane Competition/Tasting/Judging, and Cane Syrup will be made on site.

An INTERNATIONAL CHILI SOCIETY COOK OFF (professionals)
A "People's Choice" Chili Competition, local competitors welcome,
Live music, Pancake breakfast w/cane syrup (other syrups as well) $3
Chili tasting, great vendors, other wonderful food, all museum buildings open, petting zoo and more.... People's Choice Tasting Cups up to 10 samples for $5. Get there in time for Kiwanis pancakes and stay all day! ACCEPTING VENDORS and CHILI COMPETITORS
If you have questions, please call or text Brenda Minton 352-206-8889 (daytime hours, please) or curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

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Farm Fest & Quilt Show                                                            February 1 & 2, 2020

(Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. & Sun 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Quilt Exhibition, Quilt Appraiser, awesome Vendors, great Food, live entertainment, amazing Quilt Show both days. Bring your lawn chairs, grab a great lunch from the concession stand and get your spot for the horse pull on Saturday. Saturday Only - Draft Horse Pull, starts at noon! Sunday  - Quilt Show. All museum buildings open both days, docents in period dress, traditional craft demonstrations and more. 

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Living History, Civil War                    February 28*, 29 and March 1, 2020

School Day Field Trips Only Feb. 28, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Must Pre-register and pre-pay (unless other arrangements have been made.)

Re-enactments February 29 and March 1, 2020, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Jelly Bean Fling                                                                                    April 4, 2020

Please join us for a wonderful Spring Festival at the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village in Dade City!
(FREE means included with admission):Live entertainment. Easter Bonnet Parades (FREE) - 
Petting zoo(FREE), Barrel train rides (FREE), Make your own Easter Bonnet or Top hats for the boys(FREE), Rock Painting (FREE), Wonderful shopping vendors, food vendors and concessions.
Games in the barn (50 cents each and prizes given out while they last), Complementary photos with the Easter Bunny and more. 

Now accepting vendors applications, click below:

VENDOR APPLICATIONS

If you have questions, please call or text Brenda Minton, event coordinator, 352-206-8889 (daytime hours, please) or curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

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MEETINGS

2019 Pasco County Historical Society Meetings

Next meeting, July 19 2019, 6:00 p.m.

Every other month, starting in January, 6:00 p.m., usually the 3rd Friday. At the Pioneer Florida Museum,. Different speakers and presentations each meeting. Pot luck - please bring a covered dish, your table service and drink (disposable plate, fork, knife, and spoon). Held in the Mabel Jordan Barn, enter through Gate 4.

For more information, please contact: Glen Thompson,(352) 567-7449 or E-Mail: bookbollard @ iCloud.com . Historical society meetings are free and open to the public.

LOCATION: The museum is located 1.3 miles north of downtown Dade City, at the corner of US 301 and Museum Road, turn east onto Museum Road and cross the railroad tracks. 

The next meeting of the Pasco County Historical Society will occur on July 19, 2019 at 6:00 P.M.

at the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village at 15602 Pioneer Road, Dade City, Florida, 33523, in the Mabel Jordan Barn.

 

The speaker for the Friday, July 19, 2019, meeting will be Louie Holt. His program topic is “A Company Town – The History of the Cummer Sons Cypress Mill in Lacoochee, Florida”. Featuring a DVD recording directed by David W. Holt – Produced by Wilbur Dew and Louie Holt, copyright 2008. This is the history of that mill and its impact on the community. Featuring dozens of digitally restored photographs and authentic footage of the logging and mill operations filmed in 1946 and 1958 by Bill McKinstry and Lewis Abraham, this documentary by director David W. Holt, reveals a wealth of historical material previously thought lost to time.

 

Speaker = Louie Holt - Retired public administrator and local historian. Previously was a speaker to this group January 16, 2015 when the topic was from Abbott to Zephyrhills.

 

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION: Start time for dinner is 6:00 P.M.

Guests are welcome. A carry-in dinner precedes the program, so bring a dish to share as well as cutlery for your personal use, plate(s), (disposable is fine) and your beverage of choice.