The Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers and Bald Eagle State Park present the annual Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival & Atlatl Tournament. This exciting two-day festival will transport you back to a time of primitive life through hands on programming and exhibits!  Featuring: stone tool construction, live encampment displays, arrowhead collections, a drum and dance team, an atlatl range, deer hide tanning, period vendors, primitive skills programming and presentations. Try your hand at primitive weaponry, craft your own arrowhead, make rope from native plants, become educated on wild edibles, how to make a matchless fire, and more!  Watch, participate, and learn the crafts of native people during this two-day immersion of cultural history. A schedule of events will be posted at a later date.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY

Open Atlatl Range & Atlatl Tournament SIGN UP (Range): Ongoing all evening

Flint Knapping Demonstration (Tent A): Ongoing all evening

Fire Making (near Tent B): 6 PM - 6:45 PM

Eastern Long Hunter Presentation (Tent B): 7 PM – 8 PM

SATURDAY

Open Range & Atlatl Tournament SIGN UP (Range): Ongoing all day. Tournament at 3:00

Flint Knapping Demonstrations (Tent A): Ongoing all day.

Making a Tool (Tent B) 10 AM -11 PM

Hand Drilling Pendants (Tent B) 11 AM – 12 PM

Native American Story Telling (Tent B): 1 PM – 2 PM

Arrowhead Auction (Tent A): 1 PM – 2 PM

Wild Edibles Walk (Tent B) 2 PM - 3 PM

Atlatl Tournament (Range) 3 PM

For more information please contact Bald Eagle State Park at
814-625-9369. This event will be held in the Schencks Grove Picnic Area near the Beach.