Living History Day: The Trades, Crafts, Skills, and Arts of the Historic Southwest

January 11, 10 am-2 pm
Presidio Museum, 196 N. Court Ave.
Included with admission. Click here to purchase admission in advance

Visitors will get an in-depth look at the types of jobs held by men and women in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  The event also includes some of the skills, arts, and crafts that emerged from being a part of New Spain, Mexico, and Territorial Arizona. Visitors will enjoy:

• Traditional Spanish music by El Camino Ancho throughout the entire event
• Blacksmiths
• A display on the lives of Soledad Jacome (a single mother and seamstress ) and Ana Charleau (a madam in Tucson's red light district)
• Musket drills and cannon firing by the Spanish garrison
• Display on military medicine
• A display on the Arizona Rangers
• Tortillas cooked on the comal
• 11:30 am lecture: "A Day in the Life of a Spanish Soldier's Wife" in the breezeway
• Learn about desert medicinal plants
• Colcha embroidery