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2010

January

January 6-12, 2010
Pellicer Creek Rendezvous
Location:Florida Agricultural Museum
Address: 7900 Old Kings Road, Palm Coast, Florida 32137
Phone: 385-446-7360
Email: pellicercreekrendezvous@yahoo.com
School Tour Days Jan. 7-8, Admission $4
Public Tour Days Jan. 9-10, Admission $6
Situated 2 miles off Interstate 95 and US1 nestled amongst the grounds of the Florida Agricultural
Museum ( a set of buildings devoted to the early agricultural history of the state) is a lake surrounded by
oak, slash and sand pine trees. This is site for the first Pellicer Creek Rendezvous.
Travel back in time to the pre-1840 Fur Trapper.
Great companionship - Story Telling - Kid's Games - Hawk Throwing - Black Powder Demonstrations - Archery Range, Vendors and much, much more!
The dates make this a great rendezvous before the famous Alafai Rendezvous, Florida’s largest
encampment in Homeland, Florida, which starts the following week.

January 9-11, 2010
DEVIL'S DITCH RENEGADES FREEZEOUT RENDEZVOUS
Location: Near Haven, Kansas
Contact: James Beckom
Phone: 620 662-2933
All participants must be in period dress in all camps at all times. Water and wood on site. This is a pre-1840's event. No Coleman or kerosene lamps (cabin excluded), keep your modern stuff well concealed. Dog Soldiers' decisions are final. Guests and visitors not allowed in without period dress. Kids and pets are parents/owner's responsibility. Directions to the Devil's Ditch site: 6 miles North of Haven, Kansas on Haven/Buhler road, then 3 miles West. Turn South, follow road to gate. Follow the signs from Highway 96 or 50.

January 16-23, 2010
Alafia River Rendezvous
Site/Location: Homeland, FL
Contact: Clayton & Janie Graves, Booshways
Email: Booshway2010@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.floridafrontiersmen.org/Alafia.html
The Southeast's largest pre-1840 interpretive encampment.Over 1,200 participants living in camps and portraying many different cultures and regions of early America.  Over 100 craftsmen and "stores" demonstrating/selling a large variety of historical reproductions. Participants early arrival starts January 13-15, 2010
        ~ Main encampment begins January 16-23, 2010
        ~ Public Days will be Friday January 22, 2010 & Saturday January, 23, 2010

February

February 5-7, 2010
Bouse Hills Muzzle Loaders Rendezvous
Site: LaPaz County Firing Range
Location: Bouse, Arizona
Contact: Dorene Deardorff
Address: Bouse  Hills Muzzle Loaders, P. O. Box 2216, Bouse, Arizona 85325
Phone: 542-980-0715
Email: travelndeardorffs@yahoo.com
Bouse Hills Muzzle Loaders meet and shoot the first and third Saturdays of the month through out the winter months.  Starting in November through March.


February 12-14, 2010
Fort Foster Rendezvous
Site: Hillsborough River State Park/Fort Foster
Location: Thonotosassa, Florida 33592
Contact: Patrick Potts
Address:  Hillsborough River State Park/Fort Foster Historic Site 15402 US 301 North Thonotosassa, Florida 33592
Phone:  813.987.6870
Email:  patrick.potts@dep.state
Url: www.floridastateparks.org
The Hillsborough River State Park will present its Annual Event at the Fort Foster State Historic Site. This event is a living history reenactment featuring military, Seminole, and civilian reenactors, sutlers, traders, and craft demonstrations. School Days- Thursday 2/12/09 and Friday 2/13/09. Admission is a $2.00 donation per student ? 'scholarships' may be available for home school students and for classes of students from area schools (Teachers/Chaperones are Free). Registration forms are available at the park or by calling (813) 987-6771. The general public is also welcome on the 2/12/09 and 2/13/09, but no battles will be fought on these days. On Saturday 2/14/ 09 and Sunday 2/15/09 there will be skirmishes after 1:00 pm, as the reenactor Seminoles try to burn the bridge and the reenactor soldiers defend it. Refreshments will be available for visitors' enjoyment. The Fort Foster State Historic Site is located adjacent to Hillsborough River State Park on U.S. 301 North, 9 miles north of Fowler Avenue and 6 miles south of Zephyrhills. Fees: Public admission for this event is a $5 donation per person ages 13 and over. 12 years and under free.

March

March 6, 2010
Colonies Of the Gulf Coast
Site: Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, AL
Time Period: 1700-1800s
Contact: Joe Everett, Fort Park Ranger
Phone: (251) 861-6992
Email: fortgaines@dauphinisland.org
URL: http://www.dauphinisland.org/
Explore life on Isle Dauphine in the 1700-1800s. Visit with French, British, and Spanish soldiers. A part of Napoleon's Old Guard, that formed the Colony in Demopolis, AL., will be on hand to demonstrate soldier life of this time-perod. They will do drilling and fire the cannon. You'll see authentic camping in the fort. There will be candle making, and open-hearth cooking. You'll see settlers competing in bow and arrow skills.

March 5-7, 2010
Ranger Springs Skinners Spring Rendezvous
Site/Location: Decatur, TX
Contact: Gayle Harris
Email: catwings.gh@gmail.com
We have a spring rendezvous the first full weekend of March and a fall rendezvous the weekend before Thanksgiving. Email me for directions or a map.

March 12-24, 2010
Southwestern Regional Rendezvous
Site/Location: Nocona, TX
Booshway: Jan "Lady Hawk" Kittlinger
Phone: 940-538-5610
URL:
http://www.woodenhawk.com/Portals/0/SWRR/SWRRShortflyer.pdf
We plan to offer seminars but need people to share skills. Please contact one of us if you have a skill to share or a specific activity you'd like to sponsor a demonstration. Competitions, events, seminars and colleges, and entertainment. Long-term and short-term camping.

April

April 18-25, 2010
Rivercane Rendezvous
Location:  Cherokee Farms, Near Lafayette, Ga
Contact:  Fuz Sanderson
Address: 4240 Surry Ridge Circle, Apex, NC  27539
Phone: 919.610.1037
Email: Fuz.sanderson@gmail.com
Event URL:  http://www.primitiveskills.org/
Our program focus is daily top quality instruction in dozens of ancestral and heritage primitive skills such as matchless fire making, edible and medicinal plants, stone tool creation and use, ancient weaponry and basket making, just to name a few. Since 1985 our camps have been a place where new friendships are forged, old friendships refined, and the empowering knowledge of pioneer, survival, native and traditional primitive skills is shared. Past participants have become proficient in skills that have helped them redefine life goals and directions as well as broaden their knowledge of sustainable life ways, connection to nature, and the power of community. After a full day of hands on instruction, evening programs give you the opportunity to join in the revival of the great oral tradition of storytelling around the council fire, or the option to pull up a chair in any of the many camps where homegrown and traditional Appalachian music is played, or the opportunity to answer the call of the drum and dance around the fire under a star filled sky. Striving for cooperation, generosity of spirit, tolerance and harmonious relationships, we welcome the skills, art, music and culture of all human ethnicities.

April 27 - May 2, 2010
29th Annual Bloody Lake Rendezvous
Black Hawk Memorial Park
Location: Woodford, WI
Contact: Larry Crawford
Address 7701 Cadet Road, Machsney Park, IL 61115
Phone: 815-633-1204
Email: lwtl@comcast.net
URL: www.YFC-BloodyLake.com
Pre-1840's dress required. Set in 160 acre county park. Modern, horse, and primitive camps. Water, wood, hooters, and dumpster furnished. DO NOT BRING WOOD PER WI DNR. Ice available. Tethered dogs welcome.  Woods Walk - Hawk, Bow, Rifle.  Pie baking contest, outdoor oven, and children's games. Blanket and commercial traders. School Day Friday, Tourist days Sat. and Sun. 3pm teardown. $15/lodge, $35/Commercial Trader, $10/person age 16 & older.

May

May 28-31, 2010
The Shenandoah Longrifles' Memorial Day Rendezvous
Location:  Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, VA (near Winchester, VA)
Contact: Trena McNair, Scribe
Phone:   304-258-1212
Email:    kitty21536@hotmail.com
You are invited to The Shenandoah Longrifles’ 2010 Memorial Day Rendezvous.  Located at the historic Belle Grove Plantation, off Route 11 near the intersection of I-81 and I-66, Middletown, VA.  Firewood, water and port-a-johns provided.  Registration fee includes all shooting and hawk and knife events.  Saturday potluck dinner.  This is a pre-1840 event; campers and competitors must be dressed in period attire.  No pets.  Limited modern tent-only camping available.  For more information on registration fees or to request a flyer, directions, etc. please contact Trena McNair, Scribe at the email address above.

June

June 9-13, 2010
Fort Henry Bicentennial Rendezvous    
Location: North of France , Idaho (East of Ashton)
Contact: Scott Murdoch                 
Email: buckskinners@live.com    
Website:   www.forthenrybuckskinners.org
Celebrate the Bicentennial of Andrew Henry’s 1810 encampment in the upper Snake River Valley , giving birth to the Western American Fur Trade era. See the very stones on which trappers chiseled their names 200 years ago. Visitors agree that the Camp Henry location is inspiring and our friendly folks & traders make for a wonderful rendezvous. his will be a large event with regional mountain man clubs co-hosting. Join us.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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March 11-15, 2009
Desert Marksmen Rendezvous
Site: 12 miles south of Palmdale CA in the Angeles Fores
Location: Palmdale CA
Contact: Lorie Mauer (Segundo)
Address: 5200 Entrar Dr.   Spc 157    Palmdale,CA 93551
Phone: 661-722-6087
Email: feenix_rising@juno.com
Url: www.desertmarksmenrendezvous.com
This is a perfect  beginner rendezvous, that also has enough events to satisfy the most avid black powder shooters.  We have Men, Women, Junior and PeeWee classifications.  We do rifle, pistol, smoothbore, shotgun, cannon shoot, primitive archery, hawk & knife, pot luck and more!  Primitive and tin tipi areas, no water provided, but firewood is available and we do expect to be able to have open fires.  Very large RV's not recommended on 1 mile dirt road.  Amenable to early entrance, Traders Free.