Palo Duro State Park put on a nice program celebrating life through the years on the Panhandle Plains.  They started with life of the hunter gatherer tribes, went to early settlers, the buffalo hunters and civil war times.  We got to see the Kwahadi dancers again.  Watched a cannon fire demonstration.  Learned about what home life was like in those days (a lot of hard work).  Tasted cookies and cakes like they would have had for tea and learned about candy of the 1880-1890…there were tootsie rolls, juicy fruit gum, peppermints and NECCO wafers.  They are all still around, pretty cool.

There was food there too. It didn’t come from dutch ovens though.  It came from food trucks.  We tried a pulled pork sandwich with cucumber and pickled carrots (from a food truck run by the Amarillo Independent School District) and fajita beef street tacos from Pepitos.  It was all tasty.