abilene state park

The Abilene State Park is bringing back Frontier Day to the park this Saturday, November 3rd. There will be lots of fun activities for the entire family but more than that a good history lesson. Not only is it Frontier Day but also the 20th anniversary of the Buffalo Soldiers program.

Take a little trip back in time, back to when transportation involved a horse or mule, cooking a meal involved stoking the fire and the buffalo roamed the plains of West Texas. The Friends of the Abilene State Park Association is holding a Frontier Day at the State Park in Buffalo Gap on Saturday November 3rd. Dawn Capps, Park Ranger says "there will be activities and events that will appeal

We just had a rare event happen with the annular solar eclipse, coming up in June there will be a similar event with the planet Venus. It's called the Transit of Venus 2012 and it's when the planet passes directly between the sun and the earth. Unless you plan on living a very long life this will be the only one you will ever see; the next one won't be until 2117.