History comes alive at Rocky Sprott Second Living History Event
Cassandra Torrez, left, and Ryan Colson win the $250 ice cream freeze off grand prize with Dr. Pepper ice cream. Toni Cummings garnered second place and Shannon West third place. Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Inc. donated the $250 prize.
Rocky Sprott Second Living History Event organizer Darrell Colson, center, congratulates chili cookoff champion Barbara Jones, of Chandler, Okla. Jones accepted the $500 prize alongside the 1st Texas Artillery cannon group. Weatherly Roofing sponsored the cash award. Courtesy Photos
Wellington State Bank’s Alisha Weatherly and Britany Silva accept the second-place chili cookoff prize from event organizer Darrell Colson.
Jody Coleman, left, ties for third place in the chili cookoff with Shelly Brim (not pictured).
Living history soldiers prepare to fire the canon.
Victor Granadoz displays his hand-made pottery.
Representing the Texas Historical Commission, Evan Wenner described the life of a cowboy on the Charles Goodnight Ranch.
WELLINGTON — With Powell Park serving as the campgrounds, the Rocky Sprott Second Living History Event took place Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct.8.
Area students, including those of the Hollis,Okla.Independent School District (ISD) and the History Club of Clarendon High School, arrived Friday for School Day, as well as 15th Century Knight Lonnie Colson,of Ponder,who was joined by Swordsmen Austin…