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Please note that due to my advanced pregnancy at the beginning of the year, and then my having given birth during a very difficult delivery this page has not been kept updated. If you scroll down you will see new additions for the year 2008.
February 24, 2007
Menendez Birthday Festival
Site: City of St. Augustine, FL
Contact: Nella, Department of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism
48 King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Phone: 904-825-5033 or 825-5088
Email: hholton@aug.com
URL: http://www.historicstaugustine.com/
OR: http://mywebpag es.comcast.net/calderon/eventscalendar.html#birthday
This 16th century Spanish event honors Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1594), founder of St. Augustine, by celebrating the 484th anniversary of his birth, including a flotilla of festival ships to commemorate the captain General of the Ocean Sea including cannon fire and music. The evening ends with a 16th century masked ball, Noche de Gala, at the Lightner Museum.
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.
Annual Colonial Arkansas Weekend
Time Period: 1686-early 1800s
Site: Arkansas Post National Park
Location: Southeast Arkansas, just south of the town of Gillet
Contact: Ray Hamel
Phone: 870-377-7245
Email: raymond_hamel@nps.gov
Or Ed Laurine
Email: ed_laurine@juno.com
URL: http://www.nps.gov/arpo/pphtml/events.html
Events URL: http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/parks/parkevents.asp?id=45
This is a self-juried time line event from 1686 to the early 1800s. Arkansas Post was established by de Tonti during his search for La Salle and the area was the site of three Quapaw villages. The last battle of the American Revolution was fought at Arkansas Post. One of the Post's Spanish commanders went broke bank rolling a group of American longhunters. They took his money and vanished into the brush! There is a program of firearms demonstrations and some lectures by renowned historians on early colonial and American life in Arkansas. The Park provides firewood, water, and toilets, plus raw materials for breakfast and Saturday supper. Tent or under the stars camping. If you are interested in Native American, French, or Spanish life in the South, please attend!
Les Pays de Illynois Colonial Trade Faire and Musket Frolic
Site: Fort de Chartres
Location: Prairie du Rocher, IL
Presented by Chasseurs du Datchurat and Fort de Chartres Historic Site
1350 State Route 155, Prairie du Rocher, IL, 62277
Phone: 618-284-7230
Email: ftdchart@htc.net
URL: http://www.chasseurs.homestead.com/TradeFaire.html
URL: http://www.ftdechartres.com/page/page/1396753.htm
A juried living history event depicting the Illinois Country 1750-1790. Includes shooting matches for rifle & musket, colonial games, and military demonstrations. If you attended last year, you should be receiving a packet within the next month. If not, an application is posted on the web site. Mail it to Kelly Puckett, who is to be this year's Booshway. We will have lots of activities for women, including a Ladies' Tea Social and "La Bonne Epouse" a skills contest to prove who is truly "the Good Wife."
Annual Old Florida Festival
Site: Collier County Museum, Naples, FL
URL: http://colliermuseum.com/
OR: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/calderon/eventscalendar.html
The largest living history event in Southwest Florida. Held each November at Collier County Museum in Naples. This is a timeline event. Time periods represented: (1) Pre-Columbian Calusa Indians are portrayed by members of the Heritage of the Ancient Ones. The grouping also includes early Creek and Seminole Indians, as well as the lesser known Black Seminole. (2) Spanish conquest, recreated by members of a 16th century living history group. (3) 1700-1850, including Continental and British Soldiers of the American Revolution, Spanish colonists, militiamen from Fort Mose, early American pioneers, aboard an 18th century ship. (4) World War II: from 1942 to 1945 the third largest city in Florida was one of the Army's training facilities. Old Florida Festival is a celebration of 6000 years of South Florida history and features a Sampling of the people and events that have shaped our past. A typical festival consists of 70 or more participants arranged in historic "camps" that portray a specific era in Florida history. Re-enactors and craft workers provide continuous drills and demonstrations through first hand impressions. Participants develop and display historical artifacts and materials in their camps and encourage questions from the public. A growing number of period vendors or sutlers also attend, offering reproductions, art, food, gift items and historically correct goods for sale. Participation in the event is by application and invitation only.
Colonial Kensington
18th Century Timeline
Time Period: 1700-1796
Site: Kensington Metro Park Martindale Beach
Location: Milford, Michigan
Contact: David Marquis, 42056 Brentwood, Plymouth, MI 48170
Phone: 586-980-4068
Email: David_thered@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.geocities.com/colonialkensington
Colonial Kensington is our 8th annual historic encampment and reenactment that presents the years 1700 to 1796. The event is located within Kensington Metro Park, about 20 miles north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, between Milford and Brighton. This beautiful park setting along the Huron River offers participants unspoiled lake and river frontage for their encampment with mature forests, hills, streams and fields featuring a network of scenic trails.
Koh-KohMah and Foster Living History Encampment
Location: 10 mi west of Kokomo
Time Period: 1740-1844
Contact: Mr. Auth
Email: FosterTradinPost@aol.com
URL: http://www.kohkohmah.com/
Experience the siege at fictitious Fort Richardville and the battle on Winding Creek. Watch how crafts were done in the 1700s. Visit the Military Camp, Demonstrator Camp, Longhunter Camp, Voyageur Camp and the Eastern Woodland Indian Village.
June 9-10, 2007
24th Annual Island Rendezvous
Time Period: 1600-1830
Site: Isle a la Cache Museum
Location: Romeoville, IL
Contact: Mike Speller, 501 E. Romeo Road, Romeoville, IL 60446
Phone: 815-886-1467
Email: mspeller@fpdwc.org
URL:
2008
June 7, 2008
4th Annual Wild West Roundup
Location: Northfield, MN
Site: Rice County Steam and Gas Engine Grounds
Contact: Jody Greenslade, Director
Address P.O. Box 4, Northfield, MN 55057
Email: info@wildwestroundup.com
URL: www.wildwestroundup.com
This year we will combine our efforts to celebrate our great American Heritage during this year of the 150 years of Minnesota Statehood. Living history activities, exciting action-packed old west reenactments, a ranch rodeo, Indian War cannon demonstrations, fast draw contest, fiddle contest, country & bluegrass musicians, DUTCH OVEN COOKOFF, and demonstrations of everyday life on the frontier are only a few of the activities we have lined up at the "Roundup".
The Dutch Oven Cookoff will have wonderful prizes for 1st place winners in 4 categories. Please visit the Wild West Roundup website for registration information and more information about the big Minnesota 150th Birhtday get-together.
July 12-13, 2008
International Timeline Event
All time periods
Location: Wilmington, Vermont
Contact: James Angus
Address: Celebrate the Valley, Inc. PO Box 577, West Dover, VT 05356
Phone: 802-380-8297
email: pr@celebratethevalley.com
URL: www.celebratethevalley.com
The 22nd Annual International Time Line Event provides a wonderful opportunity to look at the progression of history from Ancient Rome through the conflicts of the 20th century. Demonstrations of weapons from the sword to the machine gun and displays of life in camp and on the home fronts of history are featured.
July 17-19, 2008
Midland River Days
Time Period: Time line 1607-1783
Site: Downtown Midland at the Tridge
Location: Midland, Michigan
Contact: David Marquis, 9000 Lakeview, White Lake, MI 48386
Phone: 248-366-8328
Email: bw42rh@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.geocities.com/bw42rh
Requirements: Period Dress
This is a family oriented event. Bring the kids!! A large field and shaded area are available for our use. We are planning realistic tacticals both Saturday and Sunday. The Foundation is furnishing wood, water, and straw with ice available for a nominal fee. Porta-johns will be conveniently placed around the encampment. Also included will be free outdoor concerts at the band shell, the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning, and a free fireworks show on Saturday evening. A potluck dinner on Saturday (please bring a dish), early set-up on Thursday, and many Sutlers-Traders-Merchants.
August 8-10, 2008
Pirates of Paynetown
Time Period: 1600-1815
Location: Near Bloomington, IN
Site: Paynetown State Recreation Area on Monroe Lake
Contact: Nathanael Logsdon
Adress: 12420 Hwy 62, Charlestown, IN 47111
Phone: 812-606-1264
Email: springwater@peoplepc.com
URL: www.piratesofpaynetown.org
Pirates of Paynetown is a fun living history event focused on portraying pirates in a more historical light than some recent films might have us believe. We welcome cannons, period boats, performers, scallywags, and pirate hunters. There's lots of room to try out your skill at sailing on the 15,000 acre lake- The largest inland lake in Indiana. If you have a period boat, we want you!
August 23-24, 2008
Ste. Claire Voyageur Encampment
Location: Mt. Clemens (Harrison Twp) Michigan
Contact: Chris Becher
Address: 4675 Merrick, Dryden, MI
Phone: 586-463-4332
Email: rockysq@juno.com
Visitors will learn about the rich history connected with the voyageurs, Courier de Bois, and early settlers of our Great Lakes. Reenactors will be dressing and practicing the life styles and skills of the Great Lakes Fur Trade Era, including canoeing, camping, cooking, crafts, trade goods, displays, music and the sharing of history.
September, 2008
Mary Ingles Trail Associates
Location: Winfield, WV
Contact: Amy Fairchild
Address: 160 Meadow Dr., Scott Depot, WV 25560
Phone: 304-757-0464
Email: ridinghorses@yahoo.com
Our event portrays events that happen in early Western Virginia during the 18th century. We focus on the early settlers that were here during that time. There is an outdoor historical drama and we also have a primitive encampment. This five day event ends on the last Sunday in Septmember and starts the Wednesday prior. Contact Amy Fairchild for more information.
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Last updated July 4, 2008