Every year at the Flint Ridge Museum there is a gathering of Flint Knappers... Now those are not like PUPPY KNAPPERS who steal Puppies... this kind of Knapping has to do with how the native Americans made their Arrow Heads from Ohio's GemStone.... Native FLINT.
The Native Americans used other Flint to Chip (Knap) away parts of the flint to fashion their hunting Arrows and their KNIVES Remember that the native Americans did not use METAL tools... When the flint is struck right it Flakes off and will leave very VERY sharp Edges.
So Anyway near Brownsville Ohio there was a super deposit of very GOOD quality Flint and the Native American's came from MILES AROUND to gather Flint and to Knap it and to Trade thingys fur the flint.
AND we got to go to the Flint Knappers Weekend.
THIS is the SIGN that tells all about the area and the museum that is there.
We saw our furends Paul and Ann there.... Paul was selling all of his KNIFE Collection...
And Ann makes these BASKETS....
After we visited with them... we moved along to see what the other 87 booths had to offer...
Did we mention that there were LOTS of Dogs there? We took our No Walkin Wagon, butt it was such a nice day WE decided to just WALK It ..... instead of Riding.
THIS guy wanted to be GOOD furends with Ernie butt he wanted to get Moving.
THIS was a really nice guy.... we talked to him fur a while... and did some sniffing and stuffs... His Dad was Knapping... and not the Sleep kind either.
We kept Dad on the walking string... so he wouldn't get lost or stuffs.
THIS way dad.... We want to see what they have in this booth...
THESE are mostly GEODS that some of the folks brought to TRADE...
THERE were like 87 different places where they had their trade goods spread out fur us to look at.
Grrrrrreat big spots like THIS...
These are some examples of the arrow heads that the knappers made...
We could hear the Klink Clink Klink of the guyz chipping away...
It was a FUN day fur us... even if we WERE tired after walking like 87 miles.
