Brackettville
It’s hard to imagine an early Texas Spring without Fort Clark Days. This beloved event has taken place in March for over 15 years. Our annual event re-creates Texas history at Fort Clark which is located in Brackettville, TX. Fort Clark was an active military fort from 1852 to 1946. Fort Clark Days is an excellent opportunity to learn about and live Texas history for a day. This event is an interactive learning experience for both young and old as you visit and interact with Texas Living Historians as well as stroll through our historic buildings, many of which are registered as Texas Historic Landmarks. You will have the opportunity to mingle with Buffalo Soldiers, Texas Camel Corps, and view early pioneer lifestyles. Living Historians are dressed in period costumes while re-creating their daily activities whether it’s household skills such as cooking in the historic village kitchen or sighting in their rifles for hunting. The Festival Committee strives every year to grow and expand living historian participation thereby maximizing your experience. Friday (March 1, 2013) is School Day. Local area ISD’s are encouraged to send their students to visit with our living historians and our Texas Historic Property. Each year the festival hosts 700-1200 students for a day of living history. Schools interested in sending students are encouraged to make arrangements through the festival’s School Day Coordinator (Sue Martin 713-202-4999). We have ample bus parking and food vendors are available to sell lunches, or you can bring you own and picnic on our grounds. March 1 at 4:p.m. the festival opens its grounds to the general public. All beverage booths, food vendors, arts and crafts buildings open. A Kick-Off Dinner Scheduled from 5 p.m. till 7 p.m. starts the festivities. The band kicks off at 7 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m. Tickets are available at the time of the event until sold-out March 2 0800 Reveille and Flag Raising start a full day of activities. As in past festivals, there will be live cannon demonstrations and gatling gun demos. Sahawa Idians and Lipan Dance Demos, and of course our featured Living Historians all taking place throughout the day. Be sure to catch SW Texas’ hottest new group featured at this year’s event – The Young Guns. They will be performing twice on Saturday. We also have arts and crafts, food vendors, camels, wagon tours and lots more! Our festival closes at 4 p.m. with the announcement of our Pick-Your-Price Raffle winners. And, yes, tickets will be available at the event up until the drawing. Visit www.fortclarkdays.weebly.com, or www.fortclark.com for more information and pictures of past events. If you are a vendor and would like to participate in our festival, please fill out the application that can be found on the weebly site.
