Log Cabin Days
September 7 & 8, 2024
12-5 pm
Blakeslee Log Cabin, 441 Seven Hills Rd, Ashtabula, OH 44004
Our biggest annual fundraiser for the Ashtabula County Historical Society, all proceeds from food sales and raffles go directly to the upkeep of our museums and their properties. Run entirely by volunteers! Come help us out!
Historical * Educational * Fun * Delicious
Demonstration broom-making, basket weaving, wool spinning, wood carving, blacksmithing, and more historic crafts will be on display at this year’s event! We’ll have reenacters in period clothing, apple butter making in a big copper pot, games for kids, wild food & medicine ID walks, monarch butterfly presentations, tours of the log cabin, LIVE MUSIC, and awesome food!
Join us 12 – 5pm both days
Saturday, beginning at 1:00pm
Pickle Milk Old Time String Band will be hosting a jam Saturday, 1-4pm. All are welcome to join. Bring your fiddles, banjos, guitars, mandolins, jam chairs, listening ears and dancing feet for the jam circle!
Saturday & Sunday at 2:00pm
Linda Porcello gives a Monarch Butterfly presentation at 2pm BOTH days in front of the Log Cabin
Ongoing Saturday & Sunday
Tours of the Log Cabin
Tours of Blakeslee Log Cabin given by members of the Historical Society. Blakeslee is the oldest log cabin in its original form and on its original foundation in the Western Reserve. Learn about immigrant populations that came to Ashtabula in 1810 and the families that lived in the Cabin all the way up until the 1980s!
Foraging Wild Food & Medicine ID Walks
Tours of Blakeslee Log Cabin given by members of the Historical Society. Blakeslee is the oldest log cabin in its original form and on its original foundation in the Western Reserve. Learn about immigrant populations that came to Ashtabula in 1810 and the families that lived in the Cabin all the way up until the 1980s!
New This Year
Basket Weaving Demonstrations & Broom Making Demonstrations
Returning Crafters this year also include: Blacksmithing, Apple-Butter-Making, Spinning Wheel & Alpaca Fleece, Rope Baskets, Braided Rope, Woodcrafts, Wood Carving & Burning, Honeybee info & Honey. There will be a Genealogy table – come learn how to look up YOUR family history! There will be period reenacters camping out. Dave Snyder will be showing off some of his local artifacts and arrowhead collection on Sunday. He is a historian with a private local history museum in Andover.
AND there will be KIDS ACTIVITIES!
And the Food!
Returning this year, our famous bean soup and cornbread! The soup has been prepared by Courtney Johnson in recent years using the same recipe that’s been passed down for over 3 decades now. Courtney won’t be attending this year, but she’s passed the recipe and the torch over to volunteer Mary Graves to continue the tradition!
The soup is made over an open fire, in copper pots, from scratch, with many helping hands, and sold throughout both days. You can taste the love in the bean soup and the hours/days that go into it!
NEW Menu Items include:
Fresh grilled burgers
Homemade macaroni and cheese!
Slaw for your pulled pork
Returning favorites include:
Tanya Kidd’s delicious pulled pork sandwiches
Grilled locally-grown corn on the cob
All-beef hotdogs cooked over the fire
HOMEMADE PIES!
Help Us Spread the Word!
Log Cabin Days is our annual fundraiser for ACHS. This one event and membership dues make up almost all of our income for the year. We use the money to pay utilities, upkeep costs, repairs and maintenance, for our three buildings: Jennie Munger Gregory Memorial Museum, Joshua Giddings Law Office, and of course Blakeslee Log Cabin. Please help us turn out great attendance and spread the word – tell your family, friends, and neighbors.
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Help Keep Local History Alive!
Volunteer Sept 7 & 8
We need YOUR help for Log Cabin Days – Join the FUN!
Serve Pie, Stir Soup, Grill Corn
Stoke Fires, Direct Parking, Set-Up, Take-Down
Please lend a hand and help us with our main fundraiser for ACHS.
We currently do not have enough volunteers – Please join us! We have fun!
Set-Up, Fri, Sept 6: 9am – 4pm
Soup Fire & Cook Assistance Needed: 6am both days
At-Event Help Needed: 11am – 5pm both days
Take-Down, Sun & Mon: after 5pm & as-able
Please tell us if you plan to volunteer: ashcohs@gmail.com
Also feel free to just SHOW UP! We’ll put you to work!
Volunteers make this event awesome. We need YOU! Contact us to join in the fun! We need help planning the event, working in the kitchen, offering educational programming, and craft vendors that make their own wares.