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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Flora School Days features the art of smithing
By Ellen Morris Bishop
Wallowa County Chieftain
The historic Flora School
at the north end of Wallowa
County celebrated “School
Day” on Saturday, June 1.
This year they added
more fun and educational
events for participants and
visitors, including sheep
shearing, and how to pack
a horse for a pack trip. In
addition there was penman-
ship practice and a chil-
dren’s story time.
Visitors
watched
wool-spinning,
helped
churn fresh local cream
into butter, and met local
pioneer artisans and musi-
cians. The baby yak, raised
as a bottle-fed baby by Flo-
ra’s own Yak breeder and
herder, was a big draw.
Demonstrations
of
the fi ne farrier arts of
horse-shoeing also proved
popular.
School
Day
also
included the usual not-
to-be missed pioneer Dutch
Oven lunch, with sump-
tuous juicy chicken, fresh
coleslaw from the Rim-
Rock Inn, and made-total-
ly-from-scratch campfi re
baked beans.
Music, mostly old-fash-
ioned folk, played by local
musicians, kept feet tap-
ping throughout the day.
Brian Cook, of Irrigon,
Oregon, and his three out-
standing
half-Percheron
gray mules, Kent, Mary,
and Jean, provided free
wagon tours around his-
toric Flora.
Cook and his mules will
be in Portland’s Grand Flo-
ral Parade this coming
weekend, pulling a Steam
Pumper fi re-engine.
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Brian Cook and his half-Percheron mules, Kent, Mary, and Jean, provide a wagon tour of Flora
that starts with a great view of the historic Flora School.
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Master blacksmith Mike Rowley of Enterprise works on a fork,
using the tongs that he fabricated earlier in the day. Rowley
was participating in the blacksmithing competition.
The most popular and
attention-getting portion of
School Day is the black-
smith competition. This
year was a treat for smithy
affi cianodos.
Forged in Fire champi-
ons, Mike Rowley of Enter-
prise and David Roeder of
Tri-Cities,
Washington,
competed
head-to-head
along with smith Nathan
Thompson. As many as 30
visitors crowded around
the forges to watch the con-
testants produce a pair of
tongs, that they then used to
help fabricate a dining set
— a knife, fork and spoon.
“Building a good set of
tongs is a real test of black-
smith art,” said Erwin
Smith, a judge of the com-
petition. “It’s one test that
has been used to see if you
are truly a Journeyman
blacksmith.”
Smith runs the Crow-
foot Forge School of Black-
smithing in Moscow, Idaho,
and brought several of his
students to watch the fun.
T HE B OOKLOFT
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Elizabeth Enslin gets just a little too much love from a baby
yak that she had to raise as a bottle-fed baby. The calf was a
popular attraction at Flora School Day. Enslin raises yaks on
her ranch north of Flora.
Nathan Thompson won
the competition. At the end
of the day the smiths dedi-
cated a special sculpture —
a beautiful and very sturdy
quilt-stand —t hat they
constructed in honor of
Marie Norris, a quilter who
perished on her way home
last year.
Flora School has volun-
teers and followers from
all over the United States
and the world, not just from
Wallowa County.
This year, folks from
Portland, Boise, Lewis-
ton, Clarkston, and Pasco
showed up.
All proceeds from the
all-volunteer event went
to the Flora School Foun-
dation Education Center,
a 501C-3 nonprofit ded-
icated to fully restoring
the historic building and
ensuring that pioneer skills
in living and agriculture
are not lost.
For more information
about the Flora School
Foundation and Education
Center,, contact Vanessa
Thompson:
info@fl ora-
school.org or 541-828-
7911 or Nathan Thompson:
509-876-7812 or website@
fl oraschool.org or social-
media@fl oraschool.org
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