The parties were great and if you weren't there, I'm sorry you missed Eliza and Samuel Buckland's birthday parties in early September. The party-goers traveled back in time to 1883, when Buckland Station, on the Big Bend of the Carson River, was the hub of activity. The hostess for the day was La Donna, a volunteer at Buckland Station. Ready to receive the guests, Mike and I donned period costumes and assumed the characters of early settlers to share history of days gone by.
I created a dress which had a zipper down the backside even though zippers didn't make their way into the fashion scene until the early 1900s. I used a doily, created by a family member from years ago, to make a collar for the dress
and pinned it with an exquisite little pin owned by Mama Sargent, Leona Sargent Petter's mother. (That would be Bill's great grandmother.) She lived in Hannibal, Missouri where she and Papa Sargent owned a dry goods business.It was fun to perform this Chautaqua at Ft. Churchill State Historic Park and I hope some day to try it again. After all, I have the dress.
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