Thunderbird Atlatl’s Bob Berg and a host of other instructors and enthusiasts will be in Ithaca from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 for PRIMITIVE PURSUITS DAY Saturday, May 26.
The event is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County.
There will be wild food, music & fun. Enjoy old time music by local bands while wilderness skills instructors from across Central New York offer hands-on wilderness survival and outdoor living skills workshops and activities for kids and adults. Activities scheduled throughout the day include flint-knapping, friction fire, guided tree ID walks, tracking walks, basket-making, games, and much more! Events go on RAIN or SHINE! There is a covered space in case of wet weather. Music by Sunny Weather, Steve Selin and Friends, Curt Osgood & Friends, Luke Gustafson, Uncle Joe & the Rose Bud Ramblers! Cost: $10/person or $20-$30 per family suggested donation – all are welcome and none will be turned away! For more information, contact Primitive Pursuits at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, (607) 272-2292
It couldn’t have been a better weekend for the celebration of the new Lake Champlain Bridge May 19 to 20. Thunderbird Atlatl was happy to be part of the Festivities.
Reminder to everyone: World Atlatl Day is June 2. Find an event to participate at or create your own! More information to come!
Thunderbird Atlatl will be celebrating the opening of the Lake Champlain bridge connecting Crown Point, NY to Vergennes, Vt. this weekend. The bridge reopened last fall after over two years of construction!
We will be set up on the Vermont side at the Chimney Point Historical Site museum, right next to the bridge as you enter Vermont from New York.
There are events on both sides of the bridge and on the bridge this weekend. Stop by and visit!
Hesse Auction Galleries in Otego, New York will auction Prehistoric & Historic Arts of the Americas on Thursday, May 17 at 4:30 p.m.
The auction will feature Copper Tools from Shawano Co. Wisconsin; Taino Artifacts from the Caribbean; 17th C. Trade Silver; African Terracotta Objects and NYS Prehistoric Artifacts collected by Steve Petrovsky.
The copper tools are from the collection of John Jefferson of Waverly, NY, a friend and coworker who works with Thunderbird Atlatl.
There will be a preview at 2:30PM Hesse Auction Gallery is located at 350 Main St, Otego NY 13825
Telephone & Fax: 607-988-2523
Make Magazine published an article last fall in its Kit issue about our atlatl kits and how they worked. They asked us if they could review the kits last summer for the article. The review appeared in the magazine’s Siege and Ballistics Kits section.
Here’s a You Tube video showing our Kanakadea kit being used. The section about the our atlatl kit starts at about 4:58 if you don’t want to watch the entire video!
