From Daniel Boone Homestead
The Daniel Boone Homestead will come alive with the sights, smells, and sounds of colonial America during the Heritage Day Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 18, from noon to 4 p.m.
Celebrate the arrival of fall with your family and friends. This event will feature a variety of colonial and early American demonstrations, trades, and hands-on activities. It will include some new participants and demonstrations this year while also continuing the celebration of America250. This year’s highlights include blacksmithing, gunsmithing, tinsmithing, leatherworking, gardening, open hearth cooking, spinning, and an 18th-century fashion display. Visitors will hear from living history interpreters about the colonial militia and dragoons and can participate in a muster activity using wooden dummy guns and swords. The event also includes a variety of artisan craft and specialty food vendors plus fall activities for children like pumpkin painting.
Stone House History will return this year with their tape weaving and wood carving demonstrations and colonial musician Robert Mouland will entertain visitors all afternoon with his historic instruments and dancing puppets. Plus, enjoy music from the Brandywine Fife and Drum Corps and learn about the importance of the fife and drum during the American Revolution. Coffee with a Colonial will join for the first time this year, giving visitors unique insight into this important colonial beverage. In addition to demonstrations and trades, there will be a variety of 18th-century hands-on activities for children and adults to enjoy including candle dipping, quill pen writing, and colonial toys and games.
Visitors are invited to tour the two historic houses on-site – the Boone House and the Bertolet Log House – and learn about the three families who lived on the property in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Inside the Boone House, visitors can view the Apothecary display featuring period medical instruments. Make sure to visit the spring cellar too – the oldest part of the Boone House. On your way through the Boone Yard, make a stop at the laundress and tailor. And don’t forget a visit to the unique, three-room Bertolet Log House, a prime example of early Germanic architecture.
Admission for adults is $12.00, seniors (65+) is $10.00, and youth (6-17) is $5.00. Children 5 and under and DBHA members are free. Please, no pets (except service animals) and no smoking. Visit the Daniel Boone Homestead’s website or Facebook page (@Daniel Boone Homestead) for up-to-date details. The event is presented and funded by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates.
The Daniel Boone Homestead is the birthplace of the famed frontiersman, born in 1734. The Boone House, constructed in three stages throughout the 18th century, is a 10-room stone structure fully furnished to the period and situated on 579 acres of rolling countryside. The Daniel Boone Homestead is located halfway between Reading and Pottstown, one mile north of Route 422 near Baumstown. The Homestead is owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and daily historic operations are run by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates, a local, nonprofit organization. If you would like more information or would like to make a donation, please contact the Daniel Boone Homestead at 610-582-4900.
