A'maize'ing Corn Festival

Happy Birthday Henrico!!  October 14, 2010, Henrico kicked off its 400 year anniversary.  Of course, when we got there, the awesome Henrico High School marching band was in full swing.  There were several activities to do and things to see, as would have been done in the 1860's.  There was shoe making, corn husk dolls, natural dying, thread spinning, and candle dipping :).  There were also performers, Native American dances and talks about medicine and tobacco, Virginia's crash crop.  One of my favorite things was the candle dipping You got a piece of string attacked to a stick and you had to dip it in wax one layer at a time.  You would dip it in, walk around and dip it again, and agin, and agin.  I dipped in 30 times (I counted).  The candles actually look pretty cool.