Mike Woodward founder and producer of the Encampment Reenactment at Whiskey Flat Days. Photo by Catherine Stachowiak
Last week the Kernville Chamber of Commerce held a Whiskey Flat Days planning meeting, when the board discussed the tentative schedule of events for Whiskey Flat Days, which is set for President’s Day Weekend February 16 through February 19, although the groundwork for events are still being more firmly scheduled.
The trip back into the Wild West Days of gold mining, cattle ranching, trapping and cowboy church will give visitors and locals a down-home country rural feeling and experience.
Along with shootouts, all that ambiance will include a parade, a rodeo, carnival rides, food and craft booths, a costume contest, a whiskerino contest, a pet parade, some beautiful live country music and blue grass tunes, and an iron horse (motorcycle) rodeo.
With all these features you’ll be set back to the days of covered wagons and neighborly existence.
The chamber hopes to include a Disc Jockey and street line dancing, with an instructor, for Valentines Day weekend, that Friday.
Expect some raffles surrounding the Whiskey Flat Days mayoral campaign winner announcement, which usually occurs Sunday.
This is the beginning stages of scheduling, so the chamber is still deciding where to hold the Whiskey Flat Days kick off dinner, whether it be at the Elks Lodge or Ewings on the Kern.
