Every year around this time, there is “Thunder on the Three Notch.”

Many years ago, pioneers were making their way to a better, and safer place. They came on horse-drawn covered wagons, with women and children often walking along the trials to escape the heat and the bumping and knocking of the wagon’s wood wheels over rough terrain.

When the pioneers found a place they could envision as home, they unloaded their wagons and put the plow in the ground.

That’s how the pioneers arrived in and around what is now Pike County.

On Friday and Saturday, May 3 and May 3, the Pioneer Museum of Alabama will offer people of all ages the opportunity to experience what pioneer life was like here in Pike County more than a hundred years ago.

Barbara Tatom, museum director, said the museum has two day of activities and events planned that relate to the time when there was “Thunder on the Tree Notch.”

“Thunder” will feature, Native American cooking, weaving, rope making, twining, and provide opportunites to talk with the Indians and members of the militia.

There will be opportunities to visit a little red schoolhouse, experience a Circuit-riding preacher, visit an old county store and be right on the fringes of the “Thunder on the Three Notch.”

The militia and the Creek Indians will appear from the woods to do battle with powder guns and bows and arrows. The battle will be exciting and there will be opportunities to meet members of the militia and the Creek Indians.

Everyone is invited to Thunder on the Three Notch from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3. The battle will be around 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Admission is charged.