[Scmusenet] Press Release: "History of the 18th Century Long Hunter Frontiersman" to be presented September 3 at the Pickens County Museum

[Allen Coleman]

Release Date:  Immediate

Event Date:      September 3, 2009

Contact:           Pickens County Museum at 864.898.5963

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The History of the 18th Century Long Hunter Frontiersman 

Scott Alexander to present September 3rd program at the Pickens County
Museum 

 

   The public is invited to a free presentation on "The 18th Century
Long Hunter Frontiersman of this Area". Presented by Scott Alexander on
Thursday, September 3, 2009 from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., the program will be
in the LaVonne Nalley Piper Auditorium at the Pickens County Museum of
Art & History.

 

   A Longhunter (or long hunter) was an eighteenth century explorer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer>  and hunter
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter>  who made expeditions into the
American <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>  frontier
wilderness for as much as six months at a time. By the 1750's the
depletion of big game in many areas forced hunters to cross the
mountains to places like Tennessee and Kentucky on long hunts.  

 

   Over the years Hollywood had portrayed all American frontiersmen as
mountain men and the important but subtle difference between the
cultures has been forgotten. Scott Alexander, Site Manager at Oconee
Station State Historic Site, will help sort out some of these
differences. Oconee Station served as a frontier border post during the
1790's. It was garrisoned by SC State Militia who was recruited from the
ranks of professional hunters.  

 

   The long hunter lived on the edge of civilization; he was often a
family man and sometimes a farmer. The mountain man lived in the
wilderness and depended on traders to get his goods to market. Scott,
who will be dressed as a long hunter, will emphasis that the long hunter
was clad in cloth (wool or linen) and carried a flintlock; while the
mountain man wore clothes made from animal skins and carried a more
advanced percussion cap rifle.

 

   This program is part of the museum's continuing effort to provide a
variety of entertaining and educational programming for the community.
The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens
County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the South
Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National
Endowment for the Arts. 

 

   Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens
SC, the museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m.
until 5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays
from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are
welcomed. For more information call the museum at (864) 898-5963.

 

 

 

 

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