Today from 10am to 4pm, Historic Arkansas Museum is hosting the 40th Annual Territorial Fair.

A festive family event, the Territorial Fair delights all with pioneer music, Maypole dancing, lots of crafts for kids, stilt-walking, hoop-rolling, sack-racing and other frontier fun.

In its 40th year, this year’s Territorial Fair celebrates the 2013 Heritage Month theme, “Saving Our Heritage: Arkansas’s Historic Structures,” with activities highlighting the museum’s historic properties, including the oldest house in Little Rock.

Visitors will be taken back in time, when the now historic houses were brand new or being built. Guests can take part in many hands-on activities, like making bricks and whitewashing a fence, or watch as pioneers shave wooden shingles and forge nails for their houses. It took a lot to build, furnish and care for these early homes and the hard work still shines more than 150 years later.