Our friends from Lake Tahoe go to this festival every year, so we decided to join them. It is Old Time Cowboy Music, not country music, like you hear today. It isn't my type of music, but Denny grew up with it. It was more interesting than I thought. Genoa started out as a trading post for pioneers on the Emigrant Trail. It is the oldest town in Nevada. I love history so that part was interesting to me. I had never heard Cowboy Poetry, but it was very good. There were a lot of REAL cowboys there, not just dressing the part. Of course, we also did some caching. We don't do sightseeing without caching along the way.
There were a lot of street musicians. The man on the right was playing spoons.
There were a lot of people dressing in the era. Can you imagine wearing all those clothes on hot days.
There was a civil war reenactment. Amazing to see how life was back then
Imagine living like this!
I thought this was so cute. I don't think kids play tug of war anymore. I remember playing it as a child. This was part of the muzzle loaders reenactment.
Besides the civil war reenactment, there was also the muzzle loaders, showing how life was in the 1840's and 50's.
This is an original building in Genoa.
They used to call bars "thirst parlors". No mincing of words then, exactly what it is.
This is an original building
We were looking for a geocache in this pine tree. I have never seen blooms like this
All of the pine cones turn into the above lavender blooms. Anybody know what kind this is? Never did find the cache
This is the historic Pink House. When it was built, pink was the popular color of 1855. Good looking couple in front, but they don't look like cowboys
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