Events, Appearances & Important Dates
Whenever we schedule a Special Event or Road Trip we'll list it here so can join us at events, or take advantage of us being in your area to set up a Workshop or Mentoring Session.
NOTE: We are keeping our travel schedule light for 2012 as there is so much work
to do here at home in building up our new facility! However, we do hope to
hit many Events this year, including Traditional Archery Rendezvous', Knap-in's
and Primitive Skills Gatherings to let as many people as possible know about
our new place, so if you know of a cool event within driving distance from
New Jersey send us the info, and if we can work it into the scheule we'll try
to make it out!
2011 Events Schedule
September | October | November | December
January
Open Skills Night
Open Skills Nights will return in March
February
Open Skills Night
Open Skills Nights will return in March
March
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
March 14
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project
you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide,
an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with
other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually
starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website,
and for directions, check out our Locations page.
We look forward to having you!
2012 Trip to Texas
Clifton, TX
March 24 – 25
We're off on our first Texas trip of the year and very much looking forward to being back in Eddie's home state! Family obligations only allow us a single weekend there this time around (we plan on being back again in the Fall) so we wanted to offer a couple of highly requested workshops and we hope you'll come out and join us! We have The Atlatl on Saturday March 24 and Acorn Processing on Sunday March 25, both of which are being held at Starhaven Ranch, near Clifton, TX. If you've got any questions feel free to contact us, and we'll look forward to seeing you there!
April
Medicinal Properties of Common Plants & Herbs
Trailside Nature & Science Center
425 New Providence Rd., Mountainside, NJ
Thursday April 12
7:15 - 9:15 p.m.
The 2nd in our series of presentations at the Union County
Parks Department, we hope you'll come out and join us for our upcoming
evening lecture, Medicinal
Properties of Common Plants & Herbs,
at the Trailside
Nature & Science Center in Mountainside, NJ. During this 2-hour
seminar will cover how many medicinal remedies can be made from common
plants
such as willow, acorn, mint, pine and raspberry. Discover the medicinal
compounds and properties available in everyday plants, weeds
and kitchen herbs, and learn what effects these bio-active ingredients
actually have on the body.
You can register for this event through the Trailside
Nature & Science Center website or by calling 908-789-3670. We
look forward to seeing you there!
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
April 18
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
20th Annual Whittingham Traditional Archery Rendezvous
Whittingham Wildlife Management Area
118 Shotwell Rd., Newton, NJ
April 27–29
Fri & Sat: 8am-5pm
Sun: 8am-2pm
This event is hosted by the Appalachian Bowmen of Sussex County, and promises
to be, as always, a fun weekend. With 3-D Ranges, Archery Golf, Stump shoots,
a Flying Disc range, on-site camping, Eagle-eye Qualifier, and plenty of really
nice folks, this is a great event that just keeps growing. We've had a fantastic
time the last couple of years and always look forward to hanging out with the "home
town crowd" of New Jersey Traditional Archery enthusiasts. We'll be doing
Fire-Making demos and other fun stuff throughout the weekend, and have soaps
and salves and bowdrill kits and more for sale, so stop by our booth and say
hi — we
look forward to seeing you there!
For directions and more information about this shoot, see the Appalachian
Bowmen of Sussex County website.
May
Oregon Ridge Primitive Technology Weekend
Oregon Ridge Nature Center
13555 Beaver Dam Road
Cockeysville, MD
May 5–6
We've not been to this event before, but it has come highly recommended by good friends, so we thought that this year we would try to check it out. Once we have a little more information on the weekend and schedule an everything, we'll post it here!
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
May 16
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
Spring time trip to TORONTO, ONTARIO!
The P.I.N.E. Project
Toronto, ON
May 25 - June 3
In what has become an ongoing tradition, The
P.I.N.E. Project is hosting us for two weekend workshops at their
location in the west end of Toronto, near High Park. The weekend of May
25-27 we will offering our very first Primitive
Pottery workshop outside of New Jersey,
which will run Friday evening, all-day Saturday and all-day Sunday.
The following weekend, June 1-3,
we will be holding three 1-day workshops on Bone
Working, Primitive Fishing and Primitive
Cooking: Coals
& Ash on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
You can register for all of these workshops through the P.I.N.E.
Project website — we're
looking forward to seeing you there!
June
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
June 20
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
July
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
July 18
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
ETAR: The Eastern Traditional Archery Rendezvous
Ski Denton
Coudersport, PA
July 27-29
We've missed this event last couple of years, but
hope to be back there again in 2012! We've had a real blast at
this event in the past and really enjoy having it as part of our regular
Summer Events "tour".
One of the largest Traditional-Only Archery events in the world, 'Denton' draws
shooters and their families from across the eastern half of the United
States, down from Canada, even from Europe. Eight courses with over 200
3-D targets spread across 700 acres, over 100 traditional archery bowyers
and suppliers, an Eagle Eye Competition and seminars on many different
topics — this event is "The
Show"!
Look forward to seeing you there, and let's hope for less rain
this time around!
For directions & more information about the event, see the Archery Festivals website.
August
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
August 15
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website,
and for directions, check out our Locations page.
We look forward to having you!
Stone Tool Technology Show
Letchworth State Park
Castile, NY
August 24-26
We have been trying to get to this event for several years now, but
something always prevents us from going. But we have it on our schedule
again for this year really hope to make it this time! So long as nothing
goes awry, this will be our first year at "Letchworth",
the largest Stone Tool show in the Northeast, and we can't wait.
This one is on the calendar of just about every serious flintknapper
in the eastern U.S., and only bring as much money as you can afford to
spend because when you see all the pretty, pretty rock self-control quickly
goes straight out the window!
Set in the area of the Genesee River, take an hour to check out the fabulous
falls and the 600 foot gorge that the New York State Park website calls "the
Grand Canyon of the east".
For more information & directions, check out the New
York State Parks & Recreation website.
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September
Flint Ridge Knap-in
Flint Ridge Memorial Park
Brownsville, OH
August 31–September 2
The culmination of the big knap-in season in the east, plenty of knappers
go straight from the Letchworth event in New York State the previous weekend,
right on down to Flint Ridge. While we will not be attending this event ourselves
this year, we have always had a fantastic time at this event will miss seeing
old friends and making new ones this time around, and if you live in the area,
we strongly encourage you to go and check it out!
This is a fun show with plenty of rock and knapping tools, an atlatl range,
as well as suppliers for all kinds of other primitive and traditional skills. (Including
one of the finest and most reasonably priced teepee makers we've ever met,
Wendell Humphrey. If you're in the market for a teepee, this is the guy
to call!) And if you're looking for rock, stop by Craig Ratzat's tent,
cause he will hook you up! (And be sure to tell him Eddie & Julie sent you
:-)
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
September 19
6:00 p.m. - ???
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
October
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
October 17
6:00 p.m. - ???
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
Autumn trip to TORONTO, ONTARIO!
The P.I.N.E. Project
Toronto, ON
May 25 - June 3
Making Julie's Mom very happy, we are headed back to The
P.I.N.E. Project this fall for two more weekend workshops
at their location in the west end of Toronto, near High Park. The weekend
of October 19-21 we will conducting the ever-popular 9
Step Knapping™, which will run Friday evening,
10-4 Saturday and 10-4 Sunday. The following weekend, October
26-28,
we will be holding three more 1-day workshops on Beyond
the 9 Steps: Intermediate Flintknapping, Acorn
Processing and Gathering
Baskets on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
You can register for all of these workshops through the P.I.N.E.
Project website — we're looking forward to seeing you there!
November
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
November 21
6:00 p.m. - ???
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!
Open Skills Night
Practical Primitive
Great Meadows, NJ
December 19 (Winter Solstice Celebration!)
Come on out and join us for our FREE Open Skills night. Bring a project you're working on, a skill you want to practice, a plant ID guide, an animal tracking book, or just come to meet us and spend some time with other primitive skills-minded folks. It's a casual evening that usually starts up around 6:00 p.m. and runs until people decide to head home.
You can find more information on our website, and for directions, check out our Locations page. We look forward to having you!