Genoa hosts Sierra Nevada Mormon Pioneers

Visit Mormon Station State Historic Park 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and see how early pioneers lived and worked.

Members of the Sierra Nevada Mormon Pioneers, representing the Mormon Battalion, Ship Brooklyn and early California pioneers will demonstrate corn husk doll-making, rope making, fire starting (with flint and steel), leather working and period cooking.

The museum includes newly uncovered artifacts found during the recent construction project.

Glass buttons, bottles, pottery fragments and several tools are on display. The museum is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. There is a $2 museum entry fee; children 12 and under are free.

Visitors can still enjoy picnicking in the park, entrance into the stockade and viewing the wagon shelter at no charge.

For questions about Mormon Station State Historic Park, contact Park Supervisor Suzanne Sturtevant at 782-2590.