SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Close to 70 historians will educate people on traditional ways of life at LSUS's 27th annual Pioneer Days on October 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The event will include demonstrations by blacksmiths, wood carvers, leatherworkers, basket weavers, flint knappers, pottery throwers, and stitchworkers.

Pioneer Days began 30 years ago with a few historians and demonstrators; now that it has become a regular event, it has flourished and attracts a larger crowd.

Marty Young is a blacksmith, the Director of the Pioneer Heritage Center, and one of the youngest historians involved at 53.

“Pioneer Day is a celebration of these traditional methods of doing things, but it’s also about preserving these methods by finding the next generation of people to pass these tradition

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