2009

June 12-14, 2009
Carson City Rendezvous/Living History Festival
Site: Mills Park
Location: Carson City, Nevada
Contact: Fred & Maxine Nietz
Address: PO Box 4156, Carson City, NV 89702
Phone: 775-887-1294
Email: agEvents@sbcglobal.net
Url: www.EventsNevada.com/rendezvous.htm
All encampments are FREE to the public. The event is FREE to the public. 26th year. Mountain Man Encampment - life in the early 1800's, including contests of skill, music of the era, and trade goods. Civil War Encampment - re-enactment of the earliest period of Nevada statehood, both Union and Southern camps.  Pony Express - re-rides of the most famous cross-country mail route from the 1860's. Gunfighter Town & Stage - live action shows by teams of gunfighters representing the end of the 19th century. Main Stage - a full weekend of country and western music, dance, and comedy. Great Saturday line-up and FREE concerts. Mountain Man Stage - traditional banjo, fiddle, and accordion music, so tap your feet and dance along. Native American Village - traditional dances and drumming, beadwork demonstration and instruction, arts and crafts. Stagecoach Rides - an Abbott-Downing replica pulled by a 4-up team of horses. Children's Area - Back-In-Time Kids perform for you, old time games and fun. Dutch Oven Cook-off - mouth watering food, cooked pioneer style, Kid's Stick Horse Rodeo Games - FREE to kids age 2 to 13, Horseshoe Tournament - Rendezvous' Second annual of this event. Arts & Crafts - astonishing variety. Food Court - feast on a variety of foods, including Indian Tacos, barbeque, kettle korn, and more...    

August 21-23, 2009
Historic Hillsborough NH's 2009 Living History Event
Location: Hillsborough, NH
Address: Living History Event Po Box 703 Hillsborough, NH 03244
Email: LivingHistoryEvent@tds.net
URL:  www.LivingHistoryEventNH.com
Historic Hillsborough, NH
Interact with period artisans, musicians, reenactors, historical figures, dancers, crafters, children's activities and more. Sample mouth-watering traditional foods. Ride a trolley! Experience the life of a New Englander in the 1700's, the 1800's and early 1900's. Join us on the weekend of August 21-23, 2009 for a delightful, interactive living history experience depicting the unique history of the New England area. Venture on a fantastic trip throughout Hillsborough and discover the historic villages, museums, President Franklin Pierce's homestead, historic buildings, scenic drives, and stone arch bridges. Six Great Locations ~ Fantastic Food ~ Fun for the Whole Family!Adults ~ $10.00 • Seniors (65+) ~ $8.00 Children (6 – 17) ~ $5.00 • Children 5 & Under ~ FREE Special event privileges for those dressed in 1800's period costume. Hosted by the Hillsborough Main Street Program & the Hillsborough Historical Society. Need More Information? WWW.LIVINGHISTORYEVENTNH.COM Write: Hillsborough Pride, PO Box 1537, Hillsborough, NH 03244

October 3-4, 2009
Hudson River Pirate Festival
Location: Beacon, New York
Site: Riverfront Park
Address:  Red Flynn Drive    Beacon, New York
Phone: 845-380-0094
Email:  captain@hudsonriverpiratefestival.com
Website:  www.hudsonriverpiratefestival.com
Sailors,Scalawags,Smugglers and Landlubbers too ... Come celebrate the discovery of the Hudson River 400 years ago and the Pirates that traversed it's waterway attacking and plundering unsuspecting victims. The Festival will feature a spectacular array of family-fun activities,that include Arts & Crafts,Live Music,Living-History,Demonstrations,Kids area and a plate full of savory foods and mugs of drinks. Join us for a weekend of fun and adventure as we celebrate the Quadricentennial.

Saturday, October 3, 11:30am – 3:00pm
Somewhere in Time
Location: 19th Century Willowbrook Village, Newfield, Maine
Contact: Amelia Chamberlain
Address: 70 Elm Street, PO Box 28, Newfield, ME 04056
Phone:  207-793-2784
Email: director@willowbrookmuseum.org
Event URL:  www.willowbrookmuseum.org
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28!!!
All ye fine Ladies & Gents! Ye are cordially invited to “Somewhere in Time," a Costume Party of Historic Proportion at 19th Century Willowbrook Village. Please do come attired in your favorite time period or as your favorite person in history Bring an appetite and a companion or two for an elegant luncheon & the latest historical gossip.  Wear your finest frocks & coats for the “Grand Promenade” through our quaint, bustling village. Prizes awarded for most historically accurate costume. Be sure to have your dancing shoes on for the marvelously fun English Country Dancing on the lawn. Fear not--no partner required! There will be plenty of merriment to go around for every fair maiden & dashing gentleman. So much jolly fun in one spot--it’ll be historical! Saturday, October 3, 2009, 11:30am-3:00pm for persons aged 13 to adult $14 for WIllowbrook members; $17 for non-members
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28!!! Call 207-793-2784 to reserve a seat at this unique event in time!

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.  

October 18-19, 2008
Deutch Country Days
Location: Historic Luxenhaus Farm
Contact: Lois Mueller, Volunteer Coordinator
Address: 18055 St. Highway o, Marthasville, MO 63357
Phone: 636-433-5669
URL: www.deutschcountrydays.org
We have also opened a terrific "Osage Trail" which is dedicated to our Native American's, The Osage, who inhabited this land prior to the French and the Germans.  The leaders of the Osage Nation from Pawhuska, OK have visited the area, complete with two authentic, hand-constructed long houses, a wicki-up plus numerous lodges, all complete with authentic Osage artifacts.  We hope to have Osage representatives in attendance this year to explain their heritage, just as we do in the German and French areas.
Deutsch Country Days is the finest, most authentic Living History in Missouri.  We have 35 restored Missouri log and period buildings, the "ERIC SLOANE COVERED BRIDGE," Missouri mules pressing sorghum, a working steam-powered saw mill, PLUS eighty traditional folkways and skills demonstrated by juried and authentically-dressed artisans from far and near.  Four of the eighty artisans were selected by "Early American Life" magazine as four of the finest 100 primitive artisans in the USA. 

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