School Days returns this year on Saturday, June 7 from 10 am to 4
pm. Come join all the volunteers as they step back in time to
experience old time skills and entertainment. Soap making, hand
crank sewing, plucking Angora bunnies and horseshoeing are added
this year to a growing line-up of activities that have delighted
visitors in the past: felting, plowing with draft animals, tours
of the town, weaving, spinning, painting, blacksmith at work,
leather work, sewing with a treadle machine, among other things.
Added to the Dutch oven lunch produced by John McQuown and his
crew, Zane Anderson will barbecue chicken, while the Northend
Grange once again sponsors a pie social to boost energy for all
the fun and learning.
There will also be old time music and storytelling by past
attendees of Flora School and tours of the school itself
throughout the day. The FSEC purchased its own people mover to
provide the town tours this year. The Country Store will provide
opportunities to support the school and folk artists with various
handmade items for sale.
The school remains in a state of repair, restoration and
renovation, which leaves everyone without potable water, except
through purchase at the pie social. “We continue to make progress
each year, but it all takes time,” reflects board member Ileta
English from Coulee Dam, WA. “Hopefully, with the new date for
School Days 2009 [will be other than the first Saturday in June
starting in 2009], we will also have the use of the toilets in
the school and potable water.”
All activities take place at the Flora School, 37 miles north of
Enterprise / 50 miles SW of Lewiston-Clarkston area. For more
information, call 541-828-7010 or email floraschool@tds.net.
