Last Saturday the Arizona Historical Society put together a Mormon Heritage Festival at Ft. Lowell Park that had booths and all sorts of stuff about the first Mormon settlers in Tucson (or Binghampton as they called it), as well as info about the Mormon Battalion that marched through Tucson. Jacob ended up having to go in to work that day, so the kids and I went had had some fun.
The kids in front of a mini statue of some Mormon Battalion members.
They had a scavenger hunt for the kids, where they had to go learn something at each booth or display, and when they got back to the entrance they got a mini U.S. flag and a piece of candy. We visited the Sibley Tent,
marched army drills, made cloth dolls, learned how to throw a lasso,
and rope a cow.
The cowboy and cowgirls even got some barrel racing in.
They panned for gold, learned how to card cotton, make a wool/felt ball, and a few more things, as well. The kids had a fun time until Annie fell at the last booth and skinned her knee. The injury didn’t bother her so much as me insisting that she needed a bandaid since the blood was running down her leg. The girl HATES bandaids. But we left with a balloon, some “gold" nuggets, and a piece of candy and flag for each kid, so everyone was happy, despite the bandaid.
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