The Old West Meets Ireland at Heritage Fair
The third day of the Valley Heritage Fair at Los Angeles Valley College started off with a bang Monday.
“We woke up the neighborhood,” said the man who calls himself Nevada Smith, about the cowboy 21-gun salute during the morning flag-raising ceremony.
Smith--whose first name actually is Larry, and whose day job is as a telephone installer from Simi Valley--later traded blanks with other members of the Misfit Cowboy and Gunfighter group in simulated Old West gunfights.
Just a few yards away, another group recreated 15th century Irish-Scottish villages, burning Irish peat in an open fire and trading stories about their heritage.
Presented by the American Heritage Foundation Inc., the fair also included American Indians and a group of buffalo soldiers--little known African American cavalry troops from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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