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There were Louisiana gumbo picnics, card parties, fancy dress cake walks, sunrise parties and moonrise parties and huge bonfires that burned 300 cords of wood at a time. At Skyland, the Caliph of Bagdad and his daughters paraded, gypsies danced, fortune tellers read palms and cards, knights jousted and orchestras played until dawn.
Every summer, Mr. Pollock directed a “Barn Yard Spectacle,” his version of country fun. The recreation hall was dusted with sawdust and its walls and ceiling decorated with com stalks, pumpkins and farm produce from Skyland’s huge garden.
One side of the hall was fenced into pens for flocks of live chickens, turkeys and ducks. Fat milk cows and ponies ate hay in a corner. Hired help dressed as farm hands, southern tobacco planters with goatees, flowing mustaches and red-topped boots, New England farmers with red beards and wrinkled faces, old mammy cooks and sweet country maids.
Extras led sheep dogs and stirred apple butter in a huge copper kettle. The “Hey-Rube Band” played and after the dancing, the 100 or so guests competed in apple-bobbing and cow milking contests, horse and foot races.
But the most elaborate of Mr. Pollock’s spectacles was “The Wedding of Wetona.” According to the program for this annual extravaganza, the Big Chief of Stony Man Camp dreamed of how Hawksbill, the brave chief of the Rappahannock tribe, celebrated with a great pow-wow the marriage of his daughter Wetona, the most beautiful of Indian maidens.
The yellowed program in the park’s archives preserves both script and stage directions for this drama. It tells how Mr. Pollock as Medicine Bull, the tribe’s medicine man, prepared a sweet smelling brew' containing much firewater w'hile the Indian braves w'ho were suitors for Wetona’s hand brought their offers of ponies. Their bags of sticks, each stick representing a pony, w7ere delivered to an authentic encampment with Indian teepees built of poles and bark and canvas wigwams decorated with skins and spears. Squaw's prepared fish, dressed fowl and rabbit and cooked scones of cornbread over the small campfires as Skyland’s guests watched from a circle around the Indian village.
“Ugh! Hawksbill be great chief. Hawksbill he have heap fine daughter and heap good braves. Hawksbill he feel much happy tonight,” announced the chief as he welcomed the visitors.
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