Old Timey Days at the Conner Toll House on Taft Highway Signal Mountain will include quilting, plant exchange, old time washing, and a historian on May 17 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Members of the Lone Oak Senior Quilters Club, the Evening Garden Club of Signal Mountain, the Garden Club of Signal Mountain and the Chattanooga Regional History Museum will host a journey back to yesteryear.
Events will include a glimpse of daily life when clothes were washed by hand not machine, "doing lunch" might mean a quilting bee and potluck, gardens flourished with plants traded among neighbors not bought at the grocery store or garden center and folks had to pay a toll at the Conner Toll House if they wanted to travel the road across Signal Mountain.
Members of the Lone Oak Senior Quilters Club will display their quilts, which will feature embroidered quilts and baby quilts, and the following patterns: Nine patch, redwork, Grandmother's fan, wedding ring and Irish chain. Quilters will also be on hand demonstrating quilting.
Members of the Evening Garden Club of Signal Mountain, in period dress, will demonstrate old timey washing. White clothes will be placed in boiling water in an iron pot over an open fire. Members will stir the clothes, wash them, wring them out and hang them on a clothesline to dry. Children will be invited to wash small items of clothing, with supervision.
Members of the Garden Club of Signal Mountain will host a plant exchange. The public is invited to bring a plant or plants to exchange for those brought by others. Among the varieties of plants expected to be available are hosta, daylilies, sweet woodruff, phlox, spirea and forsythia. Also expected are such bedding plants as marigolds, zinnias and cleome, and larger plants like cherry trees and lilac bushes.
James Douthat, a well-known Signal Mountain historian and author, will also be present to talk about the Conner Toll House and explain the exhibit inside it.
Emilie Powell of the Evening Garden Club of Signal Mountain is chairing this event which is open to the public free of charge.
For further details, please call 265-3247.