Usually 2nd Saturday
Pickle Research Center, 10100 Burnet Rd., enter from Burnet Rd.
between Braker and Rutland
Free
This is a great event for adults and kids interested in old-time
Texas, with lots of outdoors, hands-on activities. You can:
Learn to use an Atlatl (spear-thrower)!
Make Pottery, Baskets, and Hunting Tools.
See Stone-tool Makers in Action.
Paint a pictograph.
Pull a plow.
Take part in a demonstration dig.
Learn to identify archeological clues.
Have your artifacts identified by experts.
Indoors, symposiums explore new
discoveries. Put on by the Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory, http://www.utexas.edu/research/tarl/.
Usually first weekend
Camp Mabry, W. 35th St. at MoPac
Free
Muster Day commemorates the history of Texas military forces,
from Revolutionary days to the present. Weather permitting,
cavalry demonstrations and World War II battles occur on the
broad parade grounds, along with a mechanized parade, Confederate
Air Force and Texas Air National Guard flyovers, and re-enactors
of various stripes. Boys really like this event. Call 465-5659
for more information.
