Pioneers return to Mormon Station

Staff Reports

Mormon Station State Historic Park Saturday will host a demonstration on how pioneers lived and worked on the early frontier.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., members of the Sierra Nevada Mormon Pioneers will demonstrate cornhusk dollmaking, rope making, leather working (making shoes and moccasins), fire starting (with flint and steel) and period cooking. The living history re-enactment also includes pioneer games.

Cannon and musket firings will occur several times throughout the day. The activities are family oriented and free to the public.

People will also enjoy touring the museum and viewing artifacts found during recent construction projects at the park. 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 younger are free.

Park visitors can enjoy picnicking, walking in the stockade and viewing the wagon shelter at no charge.

Call Mormon Station at 782-2590 for more information.