Early Arkansaw Reenactors Association
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Members of EARA routinely demonstrate a wide variety of skills to help the public experience life as it was in early Arkansaw. The images below represent some of these skills.
Spinning, Weaving and Textiles in General
Carol Fritts and Karen Keating making yarn at Camp Robinson.
Larry Layne making a pair of leggings.
Karen with various textile equipment: A simple loom sits on the table at left, and an inkle is on the right table. Behind Karen are numerous skeins of naturally-dyed yarn. Cabot School Days.
Fire Starting Without Matches
Tony makes fire at White Oak 2012
Blacksmithing
Blacksmith Shop at Historic Washington State Park
Food Preparation
Julia Bethea making butter in what is probably the smallest churn on the planet. Cadron School Days.
Nelda Burdell trading herbs with Tom Reedy. Cadron School Days.
Don Lewis burning the corn. The corn is on a brazier. Notice the Dutch ovens strewn about. The cooking tripod in the foreground is not being used at the moment
Ed Williams baking bread. Notice the soot above the door -- this oven has seen lots of action! Cadron Settlement Park.
Julia Bethea makes mulled cider. Historic Arkansas Museum.
Debra Browning prepares dinner over the campfire. Woolly Hollow State Park..
Hunting and Trapping
Steve and Mark getting ready for the hunt
Early Lighting
Boyce Browning sampling the fare by candlelight in the blockhouse at Cadron Settlement Park.
Music
Tim Richardson playing the devil out of his new fiddle. (We know it's Tim because he's wearing a tag!.
The happy music folks Tim Richardson and Donna Jean Glasgow. Historic Arkansas Museum.
Donna Jean Glasgow and Laurine Williams with the Cadron blockhouse as a backdrop.
Firearms and Knives
RJ Stanley teaching some Cub Scouts how to pass a knife. Camp Robinson.
Jim McElmurry and Reg Talley goin’ over the finer points of a 4# field piece. Camp Robinson.
Howard Bethea and Glen Cook loadin’ a pistol. Be sure to pick up your brass.
Chuck Martin taking about the firearms used in early Arkansas.
Guns for sale. Black River Rendezvous.
Trading
Larry Thompson displaying trade goods. Cadron blockhouse.
Militia and Military
Mark Thurman talking about the militia. Cadron Settlement Park.
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