Harvest Days
Demonstrations and hands-on activities evoke life during harvest season in 1800s rural Louisiana
LSU Rural Life Museum 4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808
Harvest Days at the LSU Rural Life Museum is an opportunity to understand what life on the farm would have looked, sounded, and felt like in nineteenth-century rural Louisiana. Living history demonstrations will include plowing, blacksmithing, soap and candle making, timber framing, and open hearth cooking, sheep herding, and boat making as well as period music and dancing. 8 am–5 pm both days on the grounds of the LSU Rural Life Museum. $10; $9 seniors; $8 ages 6–11; free for children 5 and younger . lsu.edu/rurallife.
