Immersive pioneering experiences are perfect for families, men’s or corporate retreats, youth groups, and religious institutions.
Hoe Downs and Hay Rides
Come enjoy the great out doors with a good old fashioned Hoe Down and Hay Ride. We’ll get the band together and pull out the tracker. We are just ichin’ for a reason to party. Our professional musicians call the square dance and several of our staff will show you all the fancy moves.
We charge $X for X hours of Hay Ride around the property, $X for a 6 piece band for X hours of Square Dance music.
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War Reenactments
Revolutionary War – Reenactments
Morgans Riflemen and other assorted Blue Coats and Red Coats will be encamped around the property annually on Memorial Day weekend.
World War I – Reenactments
General Pershing, the Kaiser, maybe even Woodrow Wilson might be here to review the troops of the Worlds First War each April
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Pioneer Trek Experience
Multi-day wagon/handcart excursion reflective of the California, Oregon or Mormon Trail history. Visitors make up the wagon company members, preparing to head west and participate in the events of the Trail west:
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Check-In: a gathering period with greetings and assembling of necessary equipment, including rations, water and personal items and other supplies.
Trail: trekkers pull a handcart or walk along for several miles each day. We stop and have the trekkers participating in several historical reenactments, vignettes, and a multitude of activities each day.
Below is a laundry list of possible vignettes and activities.
Vignettes
a) Pioneer Justice: the “Company” disciplines a violator of the company goods and trust, complete with judge (Trail Boss), jury and witnesses.
b) Pioneer Burial: poor ol Hezekiah has died in the night and must be buried along the trail.
c) Pioneer Wedding: Young Jacob and Becca Tie the Knot, literally, on the trail.
d) Military Conscription: Colonel Kearney has sent his Adjutant to conscript all the able bodied men for the Conflict in the West.
e) Historical Characters: along the trail the likes of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, Jefferson Hunt and others may greet the passerby and regale them with their story.
Trek Activities
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are created on site and brought to you fresh and ready, but we tell stories of moldy cheese / bread, rancid beans, salt pork, 4 oz of flour, parched corn, and musty cider.
Skills: shingle making, log sawing, fire making, tomahawking, plowing, archery, and log splitting are examples of the skills to be done by the “pioneers.”
Trek Activities – cont.
Defense: trekkers must be prepared at a moments notice to circle wagons and defend themselves from marauders, bandits, or other predators along the trail.
Sentries Watch: all are expected to take a watch during the night for wolves, bandits, hostiles and other predators of the company.
Trek Activities – cont.
Cotillion n Etiquette: pioneer scholars are schooled in the finer aspects of manners, introductions, reels, quadrilles, polkas and more.
Prairie Ball: clothes and bodies are washed in the “river,” best prairie attire is put on for the prairie hoedown
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Check out the Farm
Fires in the Fields!
Our Apple trees have been in decline during the last few years due a blight. And due to the fires in 2020 many of our Cherry orchards were destroyed are currently being devastated and eaten by deer, crows, squirrels, mice, and gophers.
Our Academy, along with our with volunteers, maintain approximately 25 acres using historical organic practices. Pesticides, fertilizers, and other harsh chemicals have only been invented in the recent era and were unknown to the pioneers.
If you would like to pick some great fruit go to our sister company Riley’s Ranch in Oak Glen.