Potato Days is a day full of many activities
for all ages.
Centennial Village hosts Potato Days on the second
Saturday in September. There are many demonstrations, hands on activities,
entertainment, and even food.
You can learn about how people used to do things
a long time ago.
Some of the activities may be rope making, butter
churning, tortilla making, adobe making, and even washing socks
using a tub, washboard, and wringer.
Food and drink are sold by organizations, and
of course, there are potatoes!
Stuffed baked potatoes with your choice of toppings
are one of the food items enjoyed by visitors to Potato Day.
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Churning Butter
How to paint on china.
Using a machine to sew the quilt squares.
Hand Quilting
Making Rope
Tractor Rides
Riding on a Stagecoach
The old fashioned phone in the Depot.
Quivers of arrows that have been hand carved by hand the old fashioned
way.
Native American Dancers.
Bees
Old Fashioned Irons
People getting their baked potatoes for lunch.
Buffalo Hide
Flint Knives
Arrowheads that have been carved the old fashioned way.
Fox Skins
Horno oven being heated to roast corn and chiles later. The fire
heats the oven then is cleaned out and the food put inside to roast.
Merry Go Round
Merry Go Round
Safe in the Old Depot
Needlework Eggs
Needlework Examples
Bud Spud
Flash Movies There are several Flash Movies of some of the activities available at Potato Days. If you have a class in a lab, have the kids start on different movies. Remind them to only play one movie at a time on their screen.
See how fiber is first carded then spun into yarn. The fibers in
this video are angora and apaca.
See how to grind corn fine enough to use for chicken feed.
Making adobe to fill in the cracks between logs.
How to make tortillas.
Rope making is hard work!
Entertainment is also available. Here is a short clip of some square
dancing.
Weaving on a loom is demonstrated in this movie.
See how to churn butter
How to shoe a horse.
Washing socks on a washboard.
Riding the merry-go-round at the old school house.
