Pioneer Bluffs celebrates community, local food
Special to the Gazette
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The first Pioneer Bluffs Hog Roast will be “A Celebration of Community and Local Foods” from 3 p.m. until dark Oct. 11.
The event, sponsored by the Pioneer Bluffs Foundation will be at the Pioneer Bluffs near Matfield Green. Everyone is invited to attend. Pioneer Bluffs will provide the meat, table service, iced tea and lemonade, with music by The Dean Boys and Carol. Community members should bring a covered dish and lawn chairs. A scavenger hunt for the whole family will be at 3:30 p.m. Dinner will begin around 5 p.m. Locally grown foods are encouraged for this fall festival and will include pulled pork and vegetables raised organically at Pioneer Bluffs. This is a free event to celebrate the Flint Hills community and accomplishments of the past year. Donations to support the mission of Pioneer Bluffs Foundation will be gratefully accepted at the event. Volunteer co-chairs of the Hog Roast are Floyd Beck of Wichita, Kathy Dean and Julia McBride of Matfield Green, and Karl Rohlich of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. For questions or more information, contact Lynn Smith, executive director, at lynn@pioneerbluffs.org or (620) 753-3484.
Pioneer Bluffs Foundation was formed in December, 2006 with the purchase of the 1908 home of Henry and Maud Rogler and several distinctive barns. Pioneer Bluffs Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places, is located one mile north of Matfield Green or fifteen miles south of Cottonwood Falls on Flint Hills National Scenic Byway K-177.