Today. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site hosts about 40 traders, trappers, laborers and domestics as part of the site’s Fur Trade Encampment. They will perform living history activities that were common in the 1840s, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both in the fort and at camps set up outside the fort. Trappers, for instance, will have a camp in the cottonwood grove along the Arkansas River, where they will tend their animals, check traps, skin beaver and buffalo, and build a shelter. And traders will inhabit the fort trade room, where they will conduct trade with fort inhabitants, Plains tribes and the trappers. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site is located 8 miles west of La Junta or 13 miles east of Las Animas on Colorado 194. Admission is $3 for adults (12 and older); $2 for children ages 6 to 12; children 5 and under are admitted free.
Arts and crafts fairToday and Sunday. Pottery, fiber arts, goard art, jewelry, paintings, soaps, bath products and other original, handmade wares from more than 20 vendors will be available during this fifth annual market at First Universalist Church, 4101 E. Hampden Ave. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit .
