Chisholm Trail Days for 2015

Since coming home to Texas, it’s been a pleasure to attend the Williamson Museum’s Chisholm Trail Days for the Williamson County Sun, held each October in Georgetown’s San Gabriel Park.   This was the 10th year for the festival, which celebrates our cultural heritage.  The Chisholm Trail route actually passed right through Georgetown, coming up what is now Austin Avenue.   This year’s event included a Friday night campfire dinner in the park, complete with cowboy cooking over open fires, with pinto beans, with and without jalapenos added, and really nice-looking apple, peach and blueberry pies prepared in dutch ovens.  The main event on Saturday was well-attended.  Attendees got to visit with Buffalo Soldier reenactors from Austin’s Camp Mabry.   For the first time this year, Native Americans were here, including brothers Gideon and Miles Mouse, 3 and 4 respectively.  The boys, dancing since they could walk, are the children of a Cherokee father and Iroquois mother. The day concluded with a longhorn cattle drive through the park.   I’m told that the first year or so, the cattle drive came through the Georgetown square, but organizers felt this a safer venue for all concerned.   Here are a few photos from both Friday and Saturday.