'07 Custaloga Town F & I War Encampment
June 16 & 17
Websites:
'06 Custaloga Town Event Photos:
http://www.schrothsnyco.org/images/ADF_Custaloga_Town_2006/ADF_Custaloga_Town_2006.html
History of Custaloga Town:
http://www.frenchcreek-bsa.org/Camping/history.htm
The French Creek Council of the BSA and the French
Creek Living History Association will host a series of living history events at
Custaloga Town Boy Scout Reservation on Father's Day Weekend, June 16 and 17,
2007.
Reenactors will depict life during the French & Indian War. At least 300
reenactors and more than 25 sutlers (merchants) will attend. Highlights of this
two-day encampment -- among other things -- will include horse-drawn wagon
rides, children's programs, a blacksmith, a flintnapper, 18th-century
gunsmiths/gun dealers, an 18th-century doctor, powder horn makers/engravers, a
colonial furniture maker, a colonial sign engraver, a woodland Native American
camp, cannon and musket firing demonstrations, sutler camp, French Creek canoe
landing by French and Natives and then resultant fur trade scenario takes place,
live tactical engagements, and nationally renowned living historians and French
& Indian War era painters.
Paul Stillman will be doing workshops on quill pens, powder horns, and turkey
calls at the Custaloga Town event. There is a fee for these workshops, $5.00 a
person for the pens and turkey calls, and $10.00 for the horns. Paul will also
do a brain tan program and will sell quill, reed and bamboo pens. He'll also
dress as Ben Franklin and play his glass armonica.
Free parking, free admission for the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!