Thu, Jan 19
|San Felipe de Austin Historic Site
2023 TLHA Annual Conference
From the Ashes: Rediscovering and Recreating the Past
Time & Location
Jan 19, 2023, 8:00 AM – Jan 22, 2023, 12:00 PM
San Felipe de Austin Historic Site , 220 2nd St, San Felipe, TX 77473, USA
Guests
Tickets
Men's bunk
The state park has bunk houses. Participants will need to provide their own bedding and towels.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedWomen's bunk
The state park has bunk houses -- participants will need to provide their own bedding and towels
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedField trip - Sea of Mud
Explore the archeological footprint of the Texas Revolution with noted author and researcher Dr. Gregg Dimmick who has extensively explored the Mexican archives for information about the campaign. Dr. Dimmick discovered and excavated the “Mar de Lodo” or “Sea of Mud” that marks the challenging journey for Mexican troops remaining in the field after the loss at San Jacinto. Dr. Dimmick has also worked with the team that identified the Juan Almonte surrender location at San Jacinto.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedField trip: Grand Spree
Explore the history and culture surrounding alcohol production and consumnption in the antebellum and mid-century American west. MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND.
$65.00+$1.63 service feeSale endedField trip: Historical Nature
Landscape and natural environment plays a dynamic role in how people interact with the world around them. This tour will include stops at Brazos Bend State Park, a world-renowned birding destination as well as a natural American alligator habitat, the Atwater Prairie Chicken Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) and Stephen F. Austin State Park here in San Felipe. Attendees will explore the natural environs and the related history of these sites through short hikes and structured programs/lectures.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedField trip: Beaten path
Southern Brazoria County is rich in history connected to early settlement – it was a popularland claim region for settlers in Austin’s Colony. It also was a central player in the illegal slave trade of the early 19 th century and a significant part of the plantation economy leading up to the Civil War and emancipation. Stops include the recently opened Levi Jordan Plantation SHS, Varner-Hogg Plantation SHS, Stephen F. Austin statue and memorial museum, and other early sites related to Austin.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedField trip: Smorgasbord
Can’t decide what you want to learn about during your field trip in south Texas? Try a little sample of many things. Stops include some of the renowned painted churches, the Turnverein German dance hall, Winedale (managed by the University of Texas) and the Burton Cotton Gin and Museum.
$50.00+$1.25 service feeSale endedField Trip: Revolution
Explore important historical sites surrounding Texian efforts to reform and rebel against the Mexican nation. We will discuss how these events have been remembered, commemorated, and interpreted to the public from museum professionals as well as hobbyists and enthusiasts.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedField Trip: Fort Bend Frolic
Rich in history and culture, Fort Bend County is currently one of the most deomographically diverse counties in the country. Attendees will visit the Fort Bend Museum in Richmond, the George Ranch Historical Park, the Sugarland 95 cemetery project location (convict lease cemetery) and the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenburg.
$50.00+$1.25 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Whatcha Smokin'
Explore meat preservation in the 19th century. Participants will learn different methods of curing meat in order to create authentic flavors for foodways programs. Heirloom breed animals and where to procure them will also be discussed.
$35.00+$0.88 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Pilot Bread
Participants will work at the Villa de Austin's replica bake oven and learn techniques for creating pilot bread, an essential foodstuff supporting travelers and military during the 19th Century.
$20.00+$0.50 service feeSale endedWorkshop: UFO Sewing Circle
Bring your current project for this work session full of helpful tips and encouraging interaction. A conference tradition aimed at helping you improve your skills and create your own clothing designs and related material culture.
$20.00+$0.50 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Sparking
Don't be caught at a reenactment or living history event without the ability to start your own fire. This workshop reviews historical techniques for starting a fire without modern tools or matches.
$30.00+$0.75 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Bake till Make
Using period recipes and methods, bake bread in the Villa de Austin's replica bake oven. Period receipts (recipes) and methods will be used anddiscussed throughout this half-day workshop.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSold OutWorkshop: Real Housewives
As Anglo settlers immigrated to Texas, housewives brought with them both traditional fmaily recipes and those that would have appeared in the popular published cookbooks of the day. Hearty meals were essential to fuel the active lives spent in settling this new land. Workshop participants will prepare and share a full meal apppropriate to the conference's winter season, using period receipts from American cookbooks published between 1824 and 1841.
$40.00+$1.00 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Drafting Corset
A properly-fitted corset can be a comfortable layer to provide bust support, back suppport, and body shaping for your era. In this workshop participants will draft a pattern of their selected timeframe (1825-1840, 1853, 1853-1865) and may have time to cut out and begin sewing their corset with assistance from the presenter.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedWorkshop: 1850 Obsession
A sewing bee/hands-on study with extant dresses and personal fitting help. Bring your own project or start a new one.
$25.00+$0.63 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Apprentice Wanted
Spend the day experiencing the wide range of skills and activities that made up the early 19th Century printer's workday. Participants will work with set type, wet ink documents, and all the related parts and processes at the Villa de Austin's Texas Gazette printshop.
$35.00+$0.88 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Archeology
Session presenters will share a wide-ranging set of activities and interpretive possibilities to help you bring your archeology-related stories to your visitors. This workshop will include indoor and outdoor elements (dress accordingly) and will involve demonstrations of many activities and suggestions for how to plan an archeology tour at your site.
$35.00+$0.88 service feeSale endedWorkshop: Tavern Interpret...
Taverns, hotels, and inns were an essential part of life in antebellum Texas. This immersive living history workshop in the Farmer's Hotel at the Villa de Austin will offer the sights, sounds and flavors of this recreated 1830s establishment. Registrants MUST be 21 years of age to participate.
$60.00+$1.50 service feeSale endedExtra banquet ticket
$30.00+$0.75 service feeSale ended
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