Good old fashioned fun can be found during Homestead Days at Huble Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"Homestead Days is one of our favourite events and it's our longest-running event and it is all about celebrating Prince George's pioneer past," Krystal Leason, operations manager at Huble Homestead/Giscome Portage Heritage Society, said. "This is a really great event if you want to learn more about Prince George's settlers and the type of things that they did in the early 1900s."
The event is filled with old fashioned races and contests, a lot of heritage demonstrations and live music.
"It's just a really fun event that takes you back 100 years," Leason said.
There are races for all ages, even adults and include things like sac races, three-legged races, wheel-barrow races, egg and spoon races, the egg toss, and sometimes they have a rolling pin toss.
"That can be very exciting," Leason said. "The last time we did it we had a men's and a ladies' and you have to toss the pin closet to the point. The winner of the men's and the winner of the ladies' their rolling pins ended up together side-by-side and they were a married couple. It was very romantic. So you just never know what's going to happen."
In the past they've had the strongest man competition and women are invited to compete as well, Leason added.
"It's sort of an obstacle course that requires you to haul bales and pound nails and things like that," Leason said. That competition depends on the weather. If it's too hot, it won't be held for safety.
"The contests are classic eating contests," Leason said. "The kids usually eat watermelon - fastest one to get down all the way to the peel wins. For adults it's usually corn on the cob and sometimes, if we're really lucky, it's pie and of course if you are the winner of the pie eating contest the prize is a pie, which could be cruel, maybe."
There's a lunch box social, where homemade lunches made by Huble Homestead staff are put up for auction to the highest bidder at noon each day.
"This is an annual activity at this event," Leason said. "It's quite fun and the winner gets a delicious lunch including sandwiches, fruit, dessert and a drink. They're really big actually so they're worth your while to bid on them."
There's a lot of demonstrations happening during Homestead Days.
The blacksmith will be out both days and then staff have each chosen heritage skills in which to become "experts" in, Leason laughed.
"So we have vinegar making demonstrations, needlepoint, we're making sauerkraut, one of our interpreters has been working on pickling, so he's going to do some pickling demonstrations, another is working on natural dyes and, of course, there's always ice cream making and butter making at all of our events."
Admission is by suggested donation of $10 per family. The historic site is 40 kilometres north of Prince George.
