PRIMITIVE SKILLS -- The third annual Between the Rivers Gathering , an extended ancestral living skills workshop geared for families, is returning May 26-30 in Valley, Wash., north of Spokane, sponsored by the nonprofit group Bridges to the Past .
What: Hands-on primitive skills instruction, from Upper Paleolithic to Early American homesteading with camping, communal meals and camaraderie for all ages.
Who: Nearly 30 instructors to teach primitive skills to participants.
Classes: Bows; basketry; blacksmithing; bookbinding; buckskin tanning; camp craft; clothing and decoration; fibers, cordage and weaving; flint knapping; leatherwork; traps and snares; lithic (stone) tools; seed saving and sustainable gardening; shelters; survival skills; weapons; wild food; wild medicinals; woodworking and more.
Attractions: Archery range and instruction, atlatl throwing, traveling museum, on-site tent camping.
Cost: Classes, workshops and meals are for paying participants. Most participants will take classes all week, camp on site and eat meals communally. Day fee for non-campers. No fee for daily observers.
Info: betweentheriversgathering.com
