Make your own Cyanotypes exactly how AnnaAtkins did in the first-ever photography book Photographs
of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions!
Participants will expose light-sensitive paper under the sun to

Master crafterMindy King will teach us how to create perfect miniature versions of
a movie-quality prop, the old fashioned helmets worn by deep-sea
divers in former days of undersea exploration. This version can be

Join AthenianBill Omen and friends with Valley Rods and Customs on the edge of the parking lot for an outdoor
show featuring early automobiles lovingly preserved from classic eras
of our motoring heritage.

Since we'll be racing teapot roadsters, we thought we'd alsopresent the teapot in another creative guise: a teapot fashion show!
A tea cosey is a knitted covering for a teapot to keep its

Nothing betterillustrates the industrial scale of gears, pulleys and levers in
miniature as this hand-powered shooting gallery, created and designed
by 6th grade science teacher Larry King and his Warren High School

Children'slibrarians Taryn Lentes & Sue Gallagher are not going to leave
the little kids out! Here is an opportunity for children and parents
to enjoy responding in group activities to steampunk lit for tots.

Pleasantlystimulating teas and light conversations plus fine munchies from the
bakery underscore a delightful time under the open-air canopy with
people in wildly elegant costumes.

The Athenia Chamber Ensemble will perform an outdoor concert on the green
for our Victorian Low Tea Social. This woodwind trio includes
master-musicians Allison Brown Sincoff on flute, Michele Fiala on oboe,

Taryn Lentes andLuke Bentley will lead participants in a hilarious series of group
participation games  where the playing pieces are yourselves,
the playing board is the floor, and your wits and senses of humor are

Librarian ToddBastin will guide us through the submarine odyssey of Jules Verne's
globe-spanning Victorian science fiction novel. The version we’ll
get to know in this presentation isn’t one of the watered-down

PatrickQuackenbush from Airship Athena returns as our recreation director of
Victorian social sports, including badminton, croquet and lawn bowls!

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

Larry King willteach an array of different sailor's knots, one of which you can
choose to take home and hang up for display or incorporate with your
seafaring costume.  This workshop will supply top-quality

Teapotracing?! Why yes, you heard right! The Victorians made the term
“eccentric” really come into its own, and Steampunks have really
picked up on this! Case in point: anchoring perfectly nice china

Join history buffand historical reenactor John Murray as he discusses the sub-aquatic
ironclad known as the U.S.S. Monitor that changed the
course of marine battles during the American Civil War. This ship,

Ron Luce, local historian and former director of the Athens County Historical Society, will lead our short stroll through Millfield.

Luke Bentley, ourteen librarian, is a master gamer of modern strategy board games.
Join him in the library's teen area.

Husband-wife team Mindy and Larry King willhelp us construct a fun science experiment to take home and
demonstrate to friends and family. The components of this scientific

With Lawrence Greene portraying the African American colonial astronomer and clock-maker Benjamin Banneker (who legend says invented a time-machine!) we’ll enter a journey into Banneker's past as well as his future.