Harmon Field

Heritage Days

March 24 - 27, 2011

Thursday through Sunday

FREE  TO  THE  PUBLIC

Crafts and Food for Sale

Educational activities - Bring your students for a day of fun and learning!
11:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Crafts by Tryon Arts and Crafts, History by Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry, Sports by Harmon Field Recreation Department

Schools participating:

• Polk Central Elementary - First, Third, and Fourth Grades

• Blue Ridge Christian Academy - Second, Fifth, and Eighth Grades

• St. Joseph's Catholic School - Fifth Grade

Educational activities - Bring your students for a day of fun and learning!
8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Crafts by Tryon Arts and Crafts, History by Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry, Sports by Harmon Field Recreation Department

Schools Participating:

• Beginning 8:30 a.m.:

  • Polk County Middle - Eighth Grade

  • Saluda Elementary - Fourth and Fifth Grades

  • Sunny View Elementary - Fourth Grade

  • Tryon Elementary - Fourth Grade

• Beginning 11:30 a.m.

  • Polk Central Elementary - Second Grade

  • Sunny View Elementary - Fifth Grade

  • Tryon Elementary - First, Second, Third, and Fifth Grades

• Special Event:  9:15 a.m. - The students from Mr. David Riddle's eighth grade class from Polk Middle School will be releasing some of the trout they have raised from eggs. They have been involved with Trout in the Classroom, a project sponsored by the local chapter of Trout Unlimited. Students and Visitors are invited to line up along the Pacolet River just downstream from the footbridge for this special event.

• 9:00 a.m. - Camp Opens

  • Plan to spend the day and see what life in a Civil War camp was really like. Chat with the soldiers as they prepare for battle, clean their rifles, or get their horses ready for the fight.

  • Carriage rides will be offered by Carolina Horse and Carriage throughout the day, except during Soldier Drill and Battle times. Take a leisurely ride, approximately ten minutes, around Harmon Field for only $5 per person. Reminisce what it was like more than 100 years ago. Bring your children and grandchildren to share in the experience! Driver/Owner:  Elizabeth Hawkins.

  • Foothills Mountain Barbecue will be providing food throughout the day.

  • Crafters, displaying and selling wares from the 1880's, will be present. Some of those present will be From the Past Studio and Pyatt's Herbs & More.

    • If you want to capture your family's precious milestones, From The Past Studio can make it happen. You can count on us to deliver what we promise. With years of experience and a burning desire to offer our clients quality and professional service, our photography studio is the area's finest. I take photos of fellow reenactors and convert modern pictures into period Cabinet Cards or Cart de visits for authenticity. I convert military, babies, women, children, dogs, weddings and family/Unit pictures.  I can also do face swaps, if a non-reenactor wants an old photo of themselves, I will place their face on an already established photo of the period. I will also attend your event and take event photos that will be placed in my on line Gallery for purchasing: www.fromthepaststudio.printroom.com. I can also take videos of events and convert them into old style silent film. We understand that each client has different needs – that is why we are more than willing to serve your unique requests. If you are searching for something that is not on our services list, just ask! We'll be more than happy to help.

    • Pyatt’s Herbs & More is a home-based business located in Spindale, NC, that combines the richness of herbal use with the history of the region.  With a background in historical research as a musicologist and in homemaking as a wife and mother, proprietor Janet Pyatt presents information on the uses of herbs throughout the household during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  She includes the uses of herbs in cooking , housekeeping and medicine and introduces the twenty-first-century hearer to some herbs once common in kitchen gardens but now virtually unknown.   As a sutler, Mrs. Pyatt travels to historical events in western North Carolina and South Carolina.  Merchandise offered for sale include dried herbs and herb products known in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a selection of historical books, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clothing, and period crafts and household items.  For more information, see www.pyattsherbsandmore.com.

  • There will be a Victorian Ladies Tea throughout the day at the Harmon Field Community Building, next to Tryon Arts and Crafts, sponsored by Cindy Austin and Starsky Jones. Proper etiquette will be gracefully demonstrated by ladies in period dress. In the midst of uncertain and unsettling times, it was difficult to maintain a normal cultural routine. Come see how traditions were kept alive by a very special group of individuals.

  • Harmon Field Community Building will host a Civil War Museum and Harmon Field museum.

• 10:00 a.m. - Soldier Drill

• Spontaneous demonstrations will occur throughout the day, so be prepared to feel real life in the Civil War Camp.

• 2:00 p.m. - Battle Between the Blue and the Gray

• 5:00 p.m. - Supper with the Soldiers ~ A sit-down supper will be provided for the troops at the Harmon Field Community Building. Visitors wishing to partake of the meal should plan on giving a donation. Suggested donation is $3.00. Live music presented by Dana Bergman. Dana plays acoustic love songs, melodies, and patriotic ballads for people of all ages.

• 7:00 p.m. - Candlelight Tour of the Civil War Camp

• 9:00 p.m. - Camp Closes