Drive down to the Dahmen Barn on Sunday and find yourself thrown back in time to the days of hand-knitted clothes and hot-air engines.

The Artisans at the Dahmen Barn will host its ninth annual Old Fashioned Sunday this weekend, featuring antique items and practices from locals around the Palouse.

The Old Fashioned Sunday includes a variety of demonstrators bringing in everything from antique farm equipment and classic cars to pine needle baskets and knitting lessons. There’s also a beer garden and live music.

Always at the annual event is the pie-baking contest, judged by two professional chefs, with prizes given to first and second place winners. After the contest, the pies are sliced a la mode and sold as a fundraiser for the barn.

“A whole bunch of people come in and demonstrate what we call the ‘time-honored craft,’” said Leslee Miller, manager for Dahmen Barn. “You don’t see much of it today and that’s special.”

Orrin Iseminger, one of the demonstrators, will present hot air engines he constructs himself. Iseminger said the mechanism’s concepts can be hard to grasp, as people often think it’s like a steam engine when there’s actually no water or steam involved.

“It works on the principle that when air is heated it will expand and when it is cooled it will contract,” he said. “That is the motive force that makes everything move.”

These engines were invented by Robert Stirling in 1820 and used for pumping water and dental drills. After the electric and gas motor came along, these engines were made obsolete, Iseminger said.

Also at the event will be a variety of wood carvings shaped like ducks and songbirds, carved by Mel Foulkes. He has participated in the event since its first year.

“I guess one long winter evening I was bored and I picked up a piece of firewood and started whittling,” Foulkes said. “Gradually I advanced to more sophisticated carving tools.”

These tools include a carving chisel to get a rough shape out of the wood and a rotary carver to accomplish the finer details of the bird. This helps give the carvings a realistic look.

Donated to the community in 2004, Uniontown’s Artisans at the Dahmen Barn is a non-profit organization most recognizable from its fence made of old wheels. The barn has since been converted into a creativity center for artists all around the Palouse to publicly display and teach their crafts.

“We have a gift shop that has art and fine craft and specialty food products from more than 130 artists,” said Miller. “Everything in that shop is from the region.”

Iseminger describes the Old Fashioned Sunday as having a lot of variety. Many of the featured items can still be used, including the antique farm equipment. At one point during the event, the owners of the equipment will plow the field next to the barn.

“It’s just a real casual Sunday around the old-fashioned theme,” Miller said.

The Old Fashioned Sunday will be held at the Dahmen Barn from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free. For more information about the barn, visit artisanbarn.org.