Welcome to School Day!
March 6, 2020
School day coordinators are: Stephen Foxx, Barbara McFadden,Vicki Lee, and Pat Sitzes
Please click on one of the green links to contact them via email.
Please click on one of the green links to contact them via email.
This page is being built especially for teachers and students. The best way to keep you up to date on events of the day is to check in frequently to this page. If you have questions, please contact one of the coordinators and they will get back to you within 24 hours. Frequently asked questions and answers will be posted here.
8:00-4:00 School Day Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change)
Please go to Facebook: Fort Clark Days for the latest information on March 6.
All historians will be giving presentations as student groups come to them. The following are some special presentations.
8:30: Flag Raising Ceremony, Empty Saddle Statue Flagpole
8:30 - 4:00: Museum Tours for School Groups (reservations required, click here to see your time)
9:00-4:00: Musicians will be performing in the Service Club
9:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
10:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction
11:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
1:00: Crown Dancers Lipan Apache
2:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction
3:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
4:00: Flag Lowering Ceremony, Empty Saddle Statue Flagpole
4:30-6:30: Milburns Mountain Grass (Butcher Block)
6:30-10:30: Joseph the DJ (Butcher Block) be sure to request your favorites!
Food vendors will remain open for the Friday night entertainment
**With more than 40 possible presentations, we ask school groups to please rotate through the different ‘stations’ every 20 minutes: on the hour, 20 minutes past, and 20 minutes till.
Please visit our many Living Historians throughout the entire Fort Clark Days event, so they may share their stories & the past with each of you!
All historians will be giving presentations as student groups come to them. The following are some special presentations.
8:30: Flag Raising Ceremony, Empty Saddle Statue Flagpole
8:30 - 4:00: Museum Tours for School Groups (reservations required, click here to see your time)
9:00-4:00: Musicians will be performing in the Service Club
9:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
10:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction
11:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
1:00: Crown Dancers Lipan Apache
2:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction
3:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Service Club porch
4:00: Flag Lowering Ceremony, Empty Saddle Statue Flagpole
4:30-6:30: Milburns Mountain Grass (Butcher Block)
6:30-10:30: Joseph the DJ (Butcher Block) be sure to request your favorites!
Food vendors will remain open for the Friday night entertainment
**With more than 40 possible presentations, we ask school groups to please rotate through the different ‘stations’ every 20 minutes: on the hour, 20 minutes past, and 20 minutes till.
Please visit our many Living Historians throughout the entire Fort Clark Days event, so they may share their stories & the past with each of you!
Sack Lunches?
Darla (owns cafe in Brackettville) provides this information: $5 sack lunch for students. Cheese and meat or peanut butter and jelly sandwich with cookie, fruit, and water. Please call Darla at 830-563-7850 before noon, Tuesday, March 3, to order lunches. Lunches will be available at 11am on Friday.
RiverRat's BBQ has a sack lunch for $5.00. Please call Carl at 830-734-3307 or Gracie at 830-734-5842 to order in advance.
Tony T's Fryshack has chicken strips, fries, and a soda for $6.00. Please call Tony at 210-379-9359 to order in advance.
Living Historians Who Have Already Registered
Dutch Oven Cooks: Carolyn & Vincent Biediger from Castroville
Texas Camel Corp: Doug Baum
Lipan Apache Band of Texas
Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association
Seminole Canyon State Park & Historic Site
Goods Light Artillery & 5 Cannon
3B Artillery & Cannon
Fort McKavett
Tiny Town Texas
Absentee Seminole Tribe of Texas
Seminole Negro Indian Scouts
Fort Griffin
Drummer Boy Ice Cream
Civil War Sutler
Alamo Historian
William B "Bat" Masterson
Mike Parker
Frontier Women of the 1860-1880s
Fort Concho
Blacksmith
Landmark Inn State Historic Site
Potter
Leona River Players (mountain dulcimers)
Milburns Mountain Grass
Nathan & Anna Lafrenz
Tony Hull
Military Vehicle Preservation
Las Moras Amateur Radio Club
Farrier
Fort Clark
Kickapoo Cavern State Park
Texas Parks and Wildlife Devils River
Fort Lancaster
Laughlin AFB Honor Guard
Z Lazy T Chuckwagon
World War I Machine Gun
Amistad National Recreation Area
Texas Camel Corp: Doug Baum
Lipan Apache Band of Texas
Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association
Seminole Canyon State Park & Historic Site
Goods Light Artillery & 5 Cannon
3B Artillery & Cannon
Fort McKavett
Tiny Town Texas
Absentee Seminole Tribe of Texas
Seminole Negro Indian Scouts
Fort Griffin
Drummer Boy Ice Cream
Civil War Sutler
Alamo Historian
William B "Bat" Masterson
Mike Parker
Frontier Women of the 1860-1880s
Fort Concho
Blacksmith
Landmark Inn State Historic Site
Potter
Leona River Players (mountain dulcimers)
Milburns Mountain Grass
Nathan & Anna Lafrenz
Tony Hull
Military Vehicle Preservation
Las Moras Amateur Radio Club
Farrier
Fort Clark
Kickapoo Cavern State Park
Texas Parks and Wildlife Devils River
Fort Lancaster
Laughlin AFB Honor Guard
Z Lazy T Chuckwagon
World War I Machine Gun
Amistad National Recreation Area
We have two informational flyers you may download and print. One has a white background and one has a color background.
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Students from Robert Mumme's class at Lytle High School have created YouTube videos with scenes from Fort Clark Days. We will be posting them below as they are completed. What an awesome way to take back into the classroom their visit to School Day!
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