Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park (SHP) and the State Indian Museum are teaming up to host their annual spring time artisan shopping events on the same weekend -- April 20 & 21, 2013.  Sutter’s Fort SHP will host its popular “Traders’ Faire - California’s First Mall” while the State Indian Museum will present its annual spring time “Indian Arts & Crafts Market,” both open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.  While the available wares are different at each location and true to their respective histories, both offer unique, hand-crafted items that make for treasured gifts and collectibles.  

Amid a fun and lively shopping atmosphere, Fort visitors can watch artisans create pioneer goods for sale such as clothing, housewares, toys, beads and knives. Guests will also have the opportunity to make their own crafts, haggle with traders, hammer square nails, and enjoy musket and cannon demonstrations.

Back by popular demand, the Sacramento Historic Old Sacramento Foundation is proud to now offer ongoing “adults only” Old Sacramento Underground Tours starting on Thursday evening, April 11, at 6 p.m.  

Entertaining and knowledgeable guides will lead tour guests on one-and-a-half-hour evening walking tours that explore some of the dark secrets and racy tales lurking in Old Sacramento’s underground history. Hidden beneath the city for nearly 150 years, Old Sacramento’s historic underground always offers a unique tour experience that unearths the legends that lie below historic buildings and sidewalks.  Tour guests explore excavated foundations and enclosed pathways while tour guides recount the tales of the devastation, perseverance, and determination that led to California’s only successful street-raising project.  

New for 2013, the “adults only” tours will delve into tales of personal hygiene, health and living standards of the times.