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Sedona Heritage Museum is throwing a party on Oct 18 entitled "Your Museum - Your Party" celebrating its 10th anniversary

Sedona Heritage Museum throws party celebrating 10 years

SEDONA, AZ - Oct. 9 2008 - The Sedona Heritage Museum is hosting a free party so the entire community can participate in a celebration of the 10th anniversary of 'their' museum. The theme of the party is "Your Museum - Your Party," and is set for Saturday, October 18th from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The party will have fun, food, entertainment and activities for everyone.

This will be a day for locals and visitors to experience the Museum, observe and participate in some old-time crafts and skills demonstrations, play a game of horseshoes, enjoy live performances, and indulge in a full dinner cooked over an open fire in dutch ovens. Many of these activities are something you can't experience just any old time, especially in Sedona today.

The day's schedule:

Demonstrations by blacksmiths, a native/medicinal plant expert, a soldier from 1880s Ft. Verde State Park, wood carvers, a basket weaver, a saddle maker, an expert in pre-historic fire-starting, and quilters, spinners, weavers and stitchery experts start on the Museum's grounds right at 11 a.m. and continue throughout the day. Inside the main Museum building, homemade shortbread cookies will be coming out of the oven all day.

Sedona Heritage Museum is throwing a party on Oct 18 entitled "Your Museum - Your Party" celebrating its 10th anniversary

Kids of all ages will be able to try their hand at throwing a lasso, thanks to a guide from Red Rock Jeep Tours. The Museum volunteers will be leading a "make & take" booth where anyone can sit-down and learn to make a cornhusk doll or a tin-punched tree ornament. Don Godard will be there with a farm animal display, including a cow and calf, a turkey, donkey, goats and whatever other animals are ready to make the trip that day.

On the stage in the Museum's historic fruit packing shed, a constant stream of entertainment is planned. First, at 11 a.m. the museum will recognize several volunteers that started at the Museum back in 1998 - most of whom are still volunteering today. After meeting the past-presidents of the Sedona Historical Society and a welcome by Sedona's mayor, there will be a short demonstration of the museum's digital catalog database. The Museum currently has several thousand artifacts and historic photos cataloged and accessible with this automated system that will be available to the public before year-end.

At noon musician Ed Tortorello and Friends will take the stage. Ed's group will entertain the lunch crowd with great music and dancing demonstrations.

Bill Stafford and a crew of helpers will be cooking a complete meal of roast beef, potatoes and vegetables, bread and fruit cobbler in dutch ovens over open fires all morning. This special lunch should come out of the fire at noon, just in time to enjoy while listening to the live music.

Sedona Heritage Museum is throwing a party on Oct 18 entitled "Your Museum - Your Party" celebrating its 10th anniversary

At 2:30 p.m. members of Sedona Questers, a local antiquers club, will present "Women of Sedona's Past", a first-person style dramatization of the life stories of four important women in local history with special guest Ruth Jordan Van Epps portraying her mother.

Throughout the day, there will be special presentations by several of the demonstrators. Diane Dearmore will give talks at 12:30, 1:15, and 3:00 on native medicinal plants and will make an herbal salve for folks to try.

Mark Ranges will bring his gopher snake and a tarantula for a special talk about local desert 'critters' at 2:00 p.m.

Sedona Heritage Museum is throwing a party on Oct 18 entitled "Your Museum - Your Party" celebrating its 10th anniversary

Ray Anderson, a volunteer who helped build Jordan Historical Park and prepare the museum in 1998, will run the original Jordan family's 1946 apple sorting machine at 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. Other special talks are planned.

Two local authors of history books will be signing copies of their books in the Museum's Gift Shop. Kate Ruland-Thorne, a past president of the Sedona Historical Society will sign copies of her newest book "Gold, Greed & Glory" from 11-1:30 p.m. Hoyt Johnson, founder of "Sedona Magazine" will sign his new book "The Sedona Story - From Settlement to Centennial" from 1:30-4 pm. In addition, the Museum will be offering copies of the recently reprinted book "Those Early Days", a compilation of Sedona & Oak Creek Canyon pioneer stories created by the Sedona Westerners' and out of print since the 1970s.

Everyone is encouraged to checkout the silent auction and to have a cup of coffee compliments of Starbucks.

Since parking is limited at the Museum, attendees can park in the City's parking lot behind Wayside Chapel and ride the Sedona Trolley up the street or walk along the Jordan Pioneer Pathway. This is a free event.

The Sedona Heritage Museum is inside Jordan Historical Park at 735 Jordan Road, in Uptown.
For more information, call 928-282-7038, or visit our web-site www.sedonamuseum.org.
 

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