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Last Saturday Schedule Join us for a personal look at history. For information call Lynn 803 279-7560. A nice article and video of the park in the Aiken Standard New Cabinet Shop Coming
Taking its name from the 1730 Township where current day North Augusta resides, the “New Windsor” cabinet shop will be a facility that will offer programs that educate and bring to life 18th century cabinetmaking, chair making, coopering and box-making.These trades demonstrated for the citizens of South Carolina and Georgia will come through living exhibits and demonstrations of colonial life skills. This unique history center will provide an early American woodworking teaching environment that will recreate the sights, sounds, and smells of a working small town. This will benefit visiting school children and guests throughout the year. The New Winsor shop will offer the opportunity for local youth and adults to apprentice in 18th century woodworking. In addition, upon the first year of completion of the buildings, the Cabinetmaking shop will be producing furniture to populate the other buildings within the park. For more information and drawings, check out the blog. The anticipated opening of The new Winsor Cabinet shop is fall of 2011.
If you would like to donate to this project either by in-kind or by a tax deductible monetary donations, please contact either Chris Schleier by calling 678 637-7882 or by email at Chris@newwindsorshop.org or Lynn Thompson at Take a look at a great slideshow of this year's Colonial Times event. The photos were taken by Rick Pittman, the videographer for Richmond County Board of Education. The piece is on YouTube.
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Go Navy! A hardworking group of U.S. Navy Chiefs, stationed at Fort Gordon, spent the last Saturday in August at the Park. Along with family and friends, these gracious volunteers cut trees, hauled brush, and added on to the stone steps. They also cleared the path behind the water next to the street on Spring grove. The Park provided lunch during a break, and they were then back to work. Our Park depends on such volunteers and we give them a BIG THANK YOU! The Park Gets an E-Z-GO cart Brandon Haddock presents the keys to an E-Z-GO cart to Lynn Thompson at the Living History Park in North Augusta. The much needed generous donation will be used for transporting passengers and cargo throughout the park during the many events held each year. The E-Z-GO cart is an electric 4-passenger Shuttle TXT model that converts the rear passenger seat to a cargo flatbed. You can find out more at their website, www.ezgo.com.
Photo Identification: Left to Right Kudos to our photographer! Larry Gleason takes most of the photographs you see on our site and in our printed media and he does it all for the love of the park. Larry recently won Photo of the Day at Digital Image Cafe. Way to go Larry! Lynn Thompson wins the 2010 Greater North Augusta Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year award."Lynn Thompson, the driving force behind Olde Towne Preservation Association and an assortment of activities at Living History Park over the past two decades, got a tip of the hat -- or bonnet -- Tuesday evening, being named as the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce "Citizen of the Year." "History is alive and well in North Augusta," said her predecessor, Jeanne McDaniel, who hugged Thompson as the plaque was presented during the Chamber's annual meeting and banquet, held at the North Augusta Community Center." "A dozen letters from volunteers and groups filled Thompson's nomination file. Since moving to North Augusta in 1978, she has become the face of preservation initiatives, including serving as the chairwoman of the North Augusta Design Review Board and North Augusta Cultural Arts Council, and president of the Olde Towne Preservation Association of North Augusta." Congratulations to Lynn Thompson!
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Richmond and Aiken County Schools Fall 2010 Fourth Grade School Board Approved Field Trip to The Living History Park, North Augusta, South Carolina—Education Day Friday This year we are offering Education Day Friday October 15, 2010 to fourth grade students only. This is the Friday before the Colonial Times event. This is an approved field trips for all Richmond/Aiken County Schools. The Park is an educational and enjoyable field trip for any grade level but we have focused on the fourth grades this year because of the colonial social studies/ history curriculum it covers. For students/schools that cannot attend during Friday we have a scavenger hunt available on our web site www.colonialtimes.us . This may be used for extra credit for students that could attend this event with their families over the weekend. The Living History Park is located at 299 W. Spring Grove Avenue in North Augusta, South Carolina two minutes from the 13th street Bridge leading to Augusta. The park is available for tours year-round however our largest Colonial Times Living History event when all of the interpreters are camped and demonstrating is always the 3rd weekend in October. This is the 19th year of this event. The Living History Park is a recreation of a southern 18th century village. The permanent features of this park are: a brick tavern with an outdoor bake oven, a Meeting House, a blacksmith shop, an early log cabin academy, a log backwoods cabin, a smoke house, a reproduction slave cabin, a set of stocks, livestock corral, a kitchen herb garden, an active flowing spring, a sensory garden and walking trail. During the October living history event many interpreters are set up to educate and demonstrate life skills of the 18th century. We are aware that fuel costs are high and this has limited the use of field trips by the schools. The park is less than five minutes from the Richmond Counties Central offices. This makes it very close for many of the schools in the system. Our hope is this proximity to many Schools in the area will enable students to experience something wonderfully educational and quite enjoyable. The only experience that comes close is a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. The fee for participation in Education Friday is $3.00 per student. Space is limited and filling up fast. Olde Towne Preservation Assoc. must receive in full all monies owed before the students are considered registered. There will be a very important information package sent to each class that is registered. This package will contain tour times and explanations of procedures and rules. Thank you for your consideration and we hope to see many of the Richmond and Aiken County fourth grade students at the park this year! The contact persons for the event/ park are: Lynn Thompson (803) 279-7560 or Ding Denlinger (803) 202-0115.
Colonial Times: A Day to Remember is an award winner! The park's annual event in October was chosen to receive an award of merit from the South Carolina Confederation of Local Historical Societies! The awards were given out at the 2009 Landmark & Preservation Conference in Columbia. The Conference ran March 26 and 27. Congratulations to everyone! |
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