Basket Making Workshop
at the Daniel Boone Homestead
Sunday, April 13, 2025 • 12-4pm

Join the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates for their spring basket making workshop led by Vicky Heffner. The workshop will take place in the Wayside Lodge at the Daniel Boone Homestead. This workshop’s featured project is a French Loaf Basket. Participants are asked to bring the following items if you have them readily available (extra items will be on hand if needed): Bucket, towel, 10 spring clothes pins, ruler or tape measure, old pair of scissors, and a flathead screwdriver. Registration is required for the workshop and a form can be obtained by emailing us at thedanielboonehomestead@gmail.com. Daniel Boone Homestead Associate Members $50 and Non-Members $60. All proceeds go to support the Daniel Boone Homestead. Checks can be made out to the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates and mailed to: Daniel Boone Homestead Associates, 400 Daniel Boone Road, Birdsboro, PA 19508. Space is limited to 15 participants. Please register by April 6, 2025.
For more information about this and other programs at the Homestead, please visit our website or Facebook page – www.thedanielboonehomestead.org and Daniel Boone Homestead on Facebook or call 610-582-4900. This program is funded and provided by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates. The Daniel Boone Homestead is the birthplace of the famed frontiersman, born in 1734. The Boone House, constructed in three stages throughout the eighteenth century, is a 10-room stone structure fully furnished to the period and situated on 579 acres of rolling countryside. The Daniel Boone Homestead is
located halfway between Reading and Pottstown, one mile north of Rt. 422 near Baumstown. The Homestead is owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), and daily historic operations are run by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates, a local, nonprofit organization.