53rd Pioneer Festival at Black Creek

[McMurdo]

Thanks Jamie.
We will be going out once some more of the leaves change up here in a week or so, until then here are a few more from yesterday.

[McMurdo]

Glen, marriage must suit you, this is the first time in a long while that I have seem you positively beaming in a photo!

Brina

Why yes Brina it does I'm happier than I ever thought I'd be.

[weepeskythistle]

So yesterday was the 53rd Annual Pioneer Festival at Black Creek Pioneer Village.

some more to come

The photos are wonderful and I appreciate them very much. I love all kinds of history, antiques, design, art, architecture and nature.

[Midsmed]

Very nice photos,thanks for sharing them with us

[McMurdo]

Great pics, Glen. Did these German settlers come over in the 1840's like those that settled Frankenmuth in MI? Between Houston and San Antonio along the I-10 corridor are several German-Czech communities that also originated in the mid-19 C.

This is from their website:
Black Creek is a working village, typical of those established in south central Ontario between the 1790s and the 1860s. At Black Creek you are invited to escape the modern world, and experience Ontario’s rich rural heritage.
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It has been my understanding that Black Creek depicts a village at the time of Confederation in Canada that being 1867, the Mennonite fundraiser was put on by the Mennonite Central Committee, Pennsylvania German Folklore Society-York Chapter, and others that's what I meant by a German festival.

[Jack Daw]

This is from their website:
Black Creek is a working village, typical of those established in south central Ontario between the 1790s and the 1860s. At Black Creek you are invited to escape the modern world, and experience Ontario’s rich rural heritage.
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It has been my understanding that Black Creek depicts a village at the time of Confederation in Canada that being 1867, the Mennonite fundraiser was put on by the Mennonite Central Committee, Pennsylvania German Folklore Society-York Chapter, and others that's what I meant by a German festival.

Ah, I see. I'm fascinated by German immigration as well as Scots. I am a descendant of Johan Jacob Offin, a Palatine refugee to New York in 1710.

[NewGuise]

Thanks for these pictures, which bring back great memories of going to that MCC sale with my (Mennonite) family when I was a young teen. I never saw anyone there in a kilt back then (alas).

[GMan]

Wonderful pictures, I can just smell the history.

[SFCRick]

nice photo of the leaves, one thing I miss here in Hawaii is fall, we have an endless summer.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Amazing pictures.

Thank you Glen.


best,

Robert