Posted by: thepinetree on 08/01/2008 11:58 AM
Updated by: thepinetree on 08/30/2008 08:57 AM
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The 13th Annual Logging Jamboree is Coming Up Labor Day Weekend....We Have Video of The 2007 Event Enclosed For Your Streaming Pleasure!
White Pines, CA.....A not-often-enough-visited treasure is the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum owned and operated by the Friends of the Logging Museum, a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of the timber industry in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our Museum is located in Arnold, CA just off of Highway 4 in Calaveras County. Our mission is to represent, preserve, and disseminate information about the Timber Industry in all 18 Sierra Nevada ....
The 2007 Logging Jamboree Event! Video Enclosed....
Counties. The museum opened three years ago, this coming Labor Day. The museum on the site of a former logging mill that moved down here from Calpine in 1938, and the volunteers have done a good job of telling the story of logging in the 1930's, and presenting the history of the mill upon whose site the museum building rests, plus a history of the other major Calaveras County mills. The museum’s web site is quite extensive, and we've made some progress on our neighboring counties, but the site is still short on counties other than Calaveras. . One of the big attractions that is still being worked on is the old Number 4 Shay Locomotive that the volunteers are restoring.
Take a look:
www.sierraloggingmuseum.org.
We continue to work on adding information about all the counties we're supposed to represent, but it is a slow process. One of the big attractions that is still being worked on is the old Number 4 Shay Locomotive that the volunteers are restoring.
The Logging Museum’s biggest event and biggest money raiser is the Labor Day weekend event, this year the 13th annual Logging Jamboree. It will be happening on the museum grounds on Saturday, August 30 and Sunday, August 31. There will be axe-throwing contests, log-sawing contests, games for the children, and a lot of family fun for everyone. There will be food, drinks, museum tours, there is a great fishing lake right next to the event, and the list could go on and on. Lots of fun sums it all up.
Saturday's $5.00 admission includes the Saturday night concert by Joni Morris, a mostly Country/Western singing star who is widely known for her Patsy Cline sound, but sings other music equally well. Tickets for her concerts alone, sell for about 4 times as much as our admission, so this is a place and time where a family can have a good time and do it inexpensively.
Hours for both Saturday and Sunday are 11AM to 7PM, and that the admission on Sunday is $5.00 as on Sunday.
Phone contact: 209-795-1226. Museum number, most often answered by the answering machine: 795-6782/e-mail: snlm@goldrush.com.
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