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Homeplace on Green River to host Old Fashioned Farm Festival Two days of events will include mule plowing, quilting demonstration, a hay bale castle, a corn toss tournament, old fashioned toys; Fay Mous Shoes, Dr. Downey & Lindsey Wilson Cross Country team's rough sawn lumber in old fashioned bank barn By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Affairs The Homeplace on Green River, an historical demonstration farm and education center, will host an old-fashioned Farm Festival on Friday, October 10, and Saturday, October 11, 2008. The 220-acre farm is located on Kentucky Highway 55 and Tebbs Bend Road, about half-way between Campbellsville and Columbia, KY. The farm has been owned by only three families since its founding in 1805. At the Farm Festival, the public will see efforts that have been made to restore the 203-year-old property and will also get to experience a wide variety of traditional farm activities. Dan Hedgepeth will use mules to demonstrate old timey plowing For example, on Saturday, October 11, Dan Hedgepeth will use his mules to demonstrate plowing in the decades before tractors and other power equipment. He'll follow that with a discussion of pre-gasoline farming, to be held in the farm's concrete-floored feed lot. The feed lot, once a place for fattening cattle before shipment to market, has been fitted with rows of large timbers that serve as benches for presentations and entertainment events. Members of the Sawtooth Sister Quilt Guild will display their colorful quilts and discuss techniques used in the early days of quilt making, when stitched-together scraps of cloth were an important source of blankets for warmth for farm families. More modern events, such as a corn toss tournament, will also be held. Other attractions include a castle made of hay bales, a petting farm and an old-time play area with swings, see-saws and other traditional play equipment. Hot Shot Gilpen will provide tractor rides. 4-H members, led by Tony Sharp, will have traditional Christmas tree ornaments available for viewing. Clint Durham will bring his ponies for pony rides. For nostalgia buffs, the area's Old Time Rock and Rollers will perform dances from rock 'n' roll's golden age of the 1950s and early '60s. Columbia optometrist Max Downey, who spends lots of weekends hammering and sawing rough-hewn wood at the farm, will lead a barn-raising demonstration. Downey, a member of the Homeplace board of directors, takes special interest in restoring the property's old wooden barns. Faye Mous Shous, assisted by Dr. Max Downey, supervise story of large supply of rough-cut barn wood Downey and his dog, Faye Mous Shoes, a female Chocolate Labrador Retriever, recently supervised the storing of a large supply of rough-cut barn wood under the roof of what he calls the "bank barn" - mid-19th-century structure built into the side of a small hill, using timbers from a nearby bridge destroyed during the Civil War. Doing the carrying and arranging of the planks for Downey were members of the Lindsey Wilson College cross country team, along with their coach, Edwin Hagans. Lindsey Wilson has partnered with Homeplace leaders Lindsey Wilson has partnered with Homeplace leaders on a number of clean-up and restoration projects. They have also worked on numerous educational activities in biology, history and literature. The college recently received a $10,000 grant from the Appalachian College Association to conduct undergraduate research projects on the farm. The projects will form the nucleus of several educational displays and presentations at the farm. Homeplace leaders hope to convert the farm into a valuable resource for hands-on learning by students of all ages and also turn the land into a state tourist attraction. The Farm Festival is an early step in pursuing this goal. For more information about the Friday and Saturday, October 10-11, 2008, old-fashioned Farm Festival at the Homeplace on Green River, contact Lindsey Wilson Assistant Professor of Communication Dan Koger at kogerd@lindsey.edu or (270) 634-1841. This story was posted on 2008-09-18 06:59:24
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