Woodstock
posted
Jan 17, 2013
Photo by Ira Wilmer Counts for the Arkansas
Democrat, Arkansas History Commission.
Horse-drawn sleigh rides, winter programs and activities, plus
the award-winning documentary, A Time for Justice, will be featured
at the Billings Farm & Museum, Jan. 19-21.
Horse-drawn sleigh rides, sledding with jack jumper sleds, and
programs and activities for all ages plus the award-winning
documentary, "A Time for Justice", will be featured at the Billings
Farm & Museum's Sleigh Ride Weekend on Saturday, Sunday, &
Monday, Jan. 19, 20, and 21 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Climb aboard the horse-drawn sleigh and enjoy a scenic ride
through the frosty farm fields. Warm up with a visit to the
operating dairy farm and learn more about the Jersey herd and
calves, draft horses, oxen, and Southdown sheep. In the
Visitor Center, enjoy a cup of hot cider.
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, the
thirty-eight minute, award-winning documentary film by Charles
Guggenheim Productions, Inc., "A Time for Justice", will be shown
on the hour, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the museum's theater each day.
Sleigh Ride Weekend admission includes sleigh rides, the
operating farm, restored 1890 Farm House, activities, and A Time
for Justice. The Billings Farm & Museum is owned and
operated by The Woodstock Foundation, Inc., a charitable non-profit
institution founded by Mary French and Laurance Spelman
Rockefeller. Please call 802-457-2355 for daily activities and
programs and a list of seasonal events, or visit the museum's web
site: www.billingsfarm.org.
