Big, Bad, Bald Eagle Rendezvous
Lecompton kids got to attend the fifth anniversary of our own Bald Eagle Rendezvous today. It was wonderful (as always)! The annual Rendezvous is a reinactment of the kind of gatherings that mountain men participated in over 150 years ago in order to sell furs, buy supplies, see old friends and have a good time. Students got to watch mountain man reinactors make lead bullits, explain and shoot a bow and arrow, throw tomahawks and knives. They also watched a working blacksmith, saw clothes and blankets made from buckskill an buffalo hide and learned about how they are made. They even got to talk to Benjamin Franklin, and lots more.
