School day coordinators are: Vicki Lee, and Pat Sitzes 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 3.
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 Commissary 9:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Butcher Block 10:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction 11:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Butcher Block 1:00: Crown Dancers Lipan Apache 2:00: Flag raising/lowering/casing instruction 3:00: Travis’s Letter, Alamo 1836, Butcher Block 4:00: Flag Lowering Ceremony, Empty Saddle Statue Flagpole
**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!
Living Historians Who Have Already Registered
US Army Camel Experiment (the camels!) Tiny Town Texas Bexar County Buffalo Soldier Association Lipan Apache Band of Texas Frontier Infantry Potter 1923 Ford Model T truck Nora Padilla (representing Devil’s River) Texas Camel Corp West Texas Archeological Society Fort Griffin Living History Association (5 encampments) Fort Concho Villistas 1915 Replica Frontier Firearms Diamond W Cowboys & Puppets Fort McKavett Drummer Boy Ice Cream Sutler Seminole Indian Negro Scouts Good Light Artillery (the cannon folks!) and many more will be coming!!
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!