Spring Farm Day

Visitors to Landmark Park will have a chance to experience life on a turn-of-the-century farm at Spring Farm Day on March 17 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.  The day's activities will include demonstrations of old-fashioned skills and crafts like plowing with draft animals, shearing sheep, blacksmithing, music, a moonshine-making demonstration and more.  Volunteers dressed in 1890s costume will demonstrate domestic crafts such as quilting, sewing on a treadle sewing machine, cooking on a woodstove and open hearth, washing clothes, making soap and much more.

A crowd favorite is The Old Time Fiddlers' Convention.  The Old Time Fiddlers' Convention will feature fiddlers of all ages.  Fiddlers' will also gather in Brown's Crossing School for the Fiddlers' Corner, an acoustical jam session.

The sixth annual Alabama State Horse and Mule Plowing Contest will serve as Alabama's official plowing contest.  Plowers will be judged in a variety of areas, including depth and straightness of furrow.

Handmark arts and crafts will also be on sale at the event.  Local and regional artists will display candles, photographs and more, available for purchase.  All items must be handmade.  The Martin Drugstore and Shelly General Store will be open during the day, and concessions will be available.

Admission to Spring Farm Day is $8 for adults, $6 for senior citizens, $4 for kids and free for children 3 and under and park members.  Applications and rules for Arts and Crafts, Plowing Contest, and Fiddlers' Convention can be found on Landmark Park's website at www.landmarkpark.com

Landmark Park is located on U.S. Hwy 431, three miles north of Dothan's Ross Clark Circle. Admission to the 135 acre park is $4 for adults and $3 for children, with free admission to park members. For more information, call the park office at 334-794-3452 or visit www.landmarkpark.com