Daniel Boone Homestead
400 Daniel Boone Road
Birdsboro, PA 19508

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT PERSON: Amanda Machik
(610) 582-4900 thedanielboonehomestead@gmail.com
November 5, 2024

Basket Making Workshop
at the Daniel Boone Homestead
Sunday, November 17, 2024 • 12-4pm

Join the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates for their fall 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 pitcher basket. Participants are asked to bring the following: Bucket, 10 Spring Clothes Pins, Towel, Ruler or Tape Measure, and Old Pair of Scissors.Registration is required for the workshop and a form can be obtained by emailing us at thedanielboonehomestead@gmail.com. Daniel Boone Homestead Associate Members $45 and Non-Members $55. All proceeds go to support the Historic 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 18 participants. Please register by November 10, 2024.
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 presented 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.