2006
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The Farm and Forest Festival at the Morningside Nature Center in Gainesville, FL
is an annual festival which represents a market day on an 1870's
farm in rural
North Florida. Floridians in the 1870's had a tie to the land, both the
fields they tilled and the forest surrounding them.
This festival
celebrates and honors the important cultural and historical contributions that
these early settlers made to Florida.
Freespirit Emporium participated in the 2006 Farm and Forest Festival for four consecutive years
from 2003 to 2006.
Among other items available on our
website, we offered several varieties of our handcrafted soap for purchase by
visitors to the festival.
Please click thumbnails for larger view
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 The Clark Kitchen |
 Splitting Rails for fences |
 Split Rail Fence |
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Various aspects of rural life are demonstrated on this living history farm. Blacksmithing, Cane and Corn, and a molasses mill. If the visitor is lucky, they might even get a biscuit made in the Clark Kitchen with hand churned butter! |
 Civil War Re-Enactors |
 Uniforms of North and South
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 Uniforms of North and South |
 Weapons of the Civil War |
Life was hard for southerners after the Civil War. Factories, rail yards, farms and homes were in ruins. Southern soldiers returned home to a disrupted economy and social chaos.
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Both Northern and Southern soldiers migrated to Florida because much of the state was spared the devastation that much of the South sustained during the war. |
 Native American Campsite |
 Native American Campsite
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 Native American Campsite |
 Pre Columbian Tools |
 Pre Columbian Tools
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 Post Columbian Tools |
 Antique Tools |
 Treadle Powered Lathe
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 Spotted Pony Trading Post |
 Shawls by Shar Hand-woven shawls and pioneer crafts |
 Southern Family Impressions Hand Made Period Clothing for Re-enactors
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 Southern Family Impressions Hand Made Period Clothing for Re-enactors |
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