About us.
Providential Heritage Academy is a non-profit organization that helps bring history to life.
Our History
Providential Heritage Academy was formulated at the Turn of the Century (you decide which Century : ) with the intent to preserve, protect and defend the legacy and heritage of our great Pilgrim, Patriot, Paiute and Pioneer forebears who built a nation from the scrabble of the earth and water beneath them. In collaboration with living history aficionados, we bring that heritage to life! La 'Haim!
Our Collaborators
We are fortunate to receive support from many individuals who share our passion and vision for preserving American history and culture. These collaborators have cultivated pilgrim agriculture, animal husbandry, patriotic music, tribal storytelling, and various skills that pioneers also utilized across the plains in their quest to build a life from the dust of the West. Come be a part as well!!!
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Our Mission and Vision
We aim to preserve, protect and defend the legacy and heritage given to us by those who have gone before through historical reenactments, dramas and interpretations. We believe that people discover the importance and beauty of history by immersing themselves in Hands-On Heritage. Perfect understanding comes through personal experience and sharing that experience with someone else. We envision all who are "admitted" to the Academy receive “accreditation” in history, historic agriculture, anthropology, sociology, and other heritage genres.
Expanding Horizions
Providential Heritage Academy also collaborates with other history enthusiasts who participate in a wide range of world history, from Viking villages, Medieval military camps, the trenches of WW1 and the forests of Europe during WW2. American and European Living History is welcome here.
Our Home
Providential Heritage Academy is located in the hills of Cherry Valley in the Inland Empire, where the four seasons are just right; a bit like Camelot, where there is a legal limit to the snow and the green of Spring, the heat of Summer and the colors of Fall are all in perfect balance for a true pioneer experience.
Join us for a Pioneer Trek!
Multi-day wagon/handcart excursions reflective of the California, Oregon or Mormon Trail history. Visitors make up the wagon company members, preparing to head west and participate in the events of the Trail.
Check-In: a gathering period with greetings and assembling of necessary equipment, including rations, water and personal items and other supplies.
Trail: trekkers pull a handcart or walk along for several miles each day. We stop and trekkers participate in several historical reenactments, vignettes, and a multitude of activities each day.
Pioneer Justice: the “Company” disciplines a violator of the company goods and trust, complete with judge (Trail Boss), jury and witnesses.
Pioneer Burial: poor ol Hezekiah has died in the night and must be buried along the trail.
Pioneer Wedding: Young Jacob and Becca Tie the Knot, literally, on the trail.
Military Conscription: Colonel Kearney has sent his Adjutant to conscript all the able bodied men for the Conflict in the West.
Historical Characters: along the trail the likes of Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, Jefferson Hunt and others may greet the passerby and regale them with their story.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are created on site, fresh and ready, but we tell stories of moldy cheese, hard tack, rancid beans, salt pork, 4 oz of flour, parched corn, and musty cider.
Skills: shingle making, log sawing, fire making, tomahawking, plowing, archery, and log splitting are examples of the skills to be done by the “pioneers.”
Defense: trekkers must be prepared at a moments notice to circle wagons and defend themselves from marauders, bandits, or other predators along the trail.
Sentries Watch: all are expected to take a watch during the night for wolves, bandits, hostiles and other predators of the company.
Cotillion n Etiquette: pioneer scholars are schooled in the finer aspects of manners, introductions, reels, quadrilles, polkas and more.
Prairie Ball: wash clothes in the “river” and put on your best prairie attire for the fiddle, banjo, guitar and piany hoedown
Help Our Cause
We have spent so much time in the past we have met the future coming the other way. Your support and contributions will enable us to reach more who want to navigate that future correctly and adroitly.
Jer 6:16
