Pre-registration is required for all of the following programs.
For more information call (727) 582-2426
or email us at heritagevillage@pinellascounty.org
Click here for the registration form 
Also see Kid's Fun
| Pinellas Passport Group Walking Tour |
 Step back in time for a guided outdoor 60-minute walking tour of Heritage Village- 2-week advance reservations required.
- $20 per tour for up to 10 people; $2 per extra person.
Call (727) 582-2426 to register or for more information.
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| Speaking of History . . .and Coffee |
Get connected with Heritage Village! Discover more about
Village structures and exhibits through the lifeways of early
Pinellas residents at this informative lecture series!
Series to Resume in Fall 2008
Heart Felt, Metal Melt -
the Basics of
Blacksmithing
Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Learn beginning blacksmithing techniques while making a special decorative piece. Actively participate in the “tricks” of the trade: blacksmithing safety, lighting and maintaining an efficient coal fire, working the bellows, heating and shaping the metal and designing an ornamental piece. You will be amazed at what heat, iron and a few simple tools can produce! Ken Straight, Instructor.
- Program fee: (materials included)
$110 Pinellas County Historical Society member
$130 non-member
Blacksmithing - Making Tools
TBA - Future class dates to be determined.
Blacksmithing - A Second Level
TBA - Future class dates to be determined.
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| A Tisket, A Tasket, Weave Yourself a Basket |
Wednesdays, October 1, November 5,
December 3 and Saturday, January 17
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Join instructors Angela Jones and her daughter, Alexis, second and third generation basket weavers, and create a different basket each month while learning basic and intermediate skills.
- Fee per class: (materials included)
$35 Pinellas County Historical Society member
$40 non-member
Heritage Village is located at 11909 125th St. N., Largo. For more information or to register for classes, please call (727) 582-2426 or email: heritagevillage@pinellascounty.org.
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Saturdays, September 13, October 11, November 8 and Saturday, December 6
10 a.m. – 1 p.m
Living the life of the Florida pioneers. Living history interpreter, Wendy Knott-Comer, will take on the role of past pioneers and transform your modern adult day into the times of the piney wood with hands on sessions of the Pinellas past.
September 13…Elbow Grease and Homey Pastimes - Visit with Elizabeth McMullen and learn what it took to be a housewife in the 1860s. Pitch in to spiff up the cabin, polish the good silver, wash clothes the old fashioned way and sew a quilted “hot pad” for your kitchen.
October 11…Living off the Land - We will start with a tour of a “grove house.” Then, try your hand at building a “stack” fence, plowing a garden plot with a people powered cultivator, cook up some herb jelly and enjoy a taste of sorbet you churn yourself.
November 8…Entwined in History - Pay a call to the Lowe farm to gain knowledge of ranching in early Florida. Take a crack at roping a steer, produce rope the way the ranchers did, then fashion a palmetto fiber rope similar to the ones produced by Florida Native Americans.
December 6…Set a Course for Adventure - Mrs. Boyer, wife of fisherman and entrepreneur Joshua Boyer, will share her knowledge of the young fishing industry in 1870’s Pinellas County. Then play a rousing game of “Bail the Boat,” become skilled at cast netting and create a pine needle coaster.
Fee per session date:
- $20 Pinellas County Historical Society member
- $24 non-member
Save on the series!
- $60 Pinellas County Historical Society member
- $76 non-member
For Kids
For Teachers
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