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Contact: Julie Navejar
kajam03@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2590

Ranching Heritage Days scheduled at John E. Conner Museum

KINGSVILLE (February 7, 2006) — Ranching Heritage Days will be held Monday through Friday, Feb. 13-17, at the John E. Conner Museum at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The event will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

A wide variety of artisans and craftsmen will be on the grounds of the museum and inside demonstrating their ranch crafts. Volunteers will be demonstrating cornhusk doll making and butter churning. Chuck wagon cooks also will demonstrate campfire cooking. The Kingsville Quilters will be present all week and a petting zoo will be available for the kids.

Felix Silguero, saddle maker, and Robert Caldera, weaver, will be on hand all week, as will historical performers John Potter and Daniel Philips. A group of historical performers portraying buffalo soldiers will be there Monday and Tuesday only.

Weaver Juan Montalvo will be present Wednesday and cowboy storyteller Henry Plunkett will perform Wednesday through Friday.

Cowboy storyteller Dennis Gaines and singer Ed Zalkovsky will perform Thursday and Friday only. Artisans appearing on Thursday and Friday only are D.R. Powell, farrier; Clemente Zamirripa, horsehair braider; Jorge Maldonado, leather craftsman; and Joanne Murphy, spinner.

For more information, call 361-593-2810.

This page last updated 8 February, 2006