The Empire Area Museum will celebrate Heritage Day on Saturday, Oct. 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. with old-time music, old-fashioned arts, crafts and treats.
Treats include Moomers ice cream, free popcorns and samples of homemade maple sugar candy, sauerkraut cake, apple cider and butter making.
Exhibits include demonstrations of barn quilting, rug hooking, tatting, knitting, fiver arts, corn shelling, washboard laundering, sauerkraut making, log cutting and antique bicycles.
The entire Empire Area Museum complex will be open, including the main museum and store, the one-room schoolhouse, the fire-hose house, and the Billy Beeman Barn.
Must-see exhibits include the turn-of-the -century Empire saloon and kitchen, the blacksmith and woodworking ships, the railroad and lumbering exhibits, and several old-time vehicles including horse-drawn wagons and sleighs, early motor cars, and an authentic 1956 Sleeping Bear Dunesmobile.
The museum’s newest acquisition — the original scale from Salisbury Hardware — formally home to the Empire Lumber Company Stores — in on displace in the lower level of the main museum building.
There will also be docent-led walks through the village, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Admission to the Empire Area Museum Heritage Day is free. Local history books, children’s stories and other merchandise may be purchased to help support the museum, and donations are appreciated.
Not: the fire department next door will also be open for tours.
