Upcoming Event! Hubbardton, VT - July 4, 2008

We will be having a few events on July 4th this year. One event will be a parade through downtown Amherst, NH. It’s usually a very nice parade, and it helps the regiment earn a little money to be able to continue going to the larger, unpaid, weekend events.

Some of our regiment will also be at Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH. We did this last year, and it was a lot of fun. They have reenactors from all different time periods, games and shows for the kiddies, and demonstrations from all the reenactors. If you are in that area I highly suggest it. Here's a little information right from their site:

Friday, July 4
12:00 noon–5:00 pm
An American Celebration!
A real old-fashioned fabulous 4th of July! Complete with children’s parade, traditional games and crafts, historic garden tours, music, living history, food and fun for all.
Members FREE. Active military and their families FREE. Kids FREE. Adults: $8:50. Purchase tickets at any event entrance. For more information, call 603-433-1100. Additionally, members joining us for this event will receive a voucher good for a free coupon book at Kittery Premium Outlets.

Another event we will be attending on July 4th weekend is a battle reenactment at Hubbardton, VT. Here is a little information about the event itself. It will be held on July 5th and 6th, though we will be arriving to set up camp on July 4th.

http://www.hubbardton.net/Events%202008%20Hubbardton%20Battle%20schedule.pdf

Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Encampment
231st Anniversary
Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site Hubbardton, Vermont
July 5 and 6, 2008, Program

DETAILS SUBJECT TO CHANGE –Please call for details (802-273-2282)
Concession stand and colonial sutler’s shopping row open both days

TICKETS: $5.00 for adults each day and free for children under 15


Saturday, July 5, 2008

9:30 a.m. Historic Site opens to the public
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Camps open to the public; ongoing demonstrations of camp life, engineering, cooking, colonial crafts, medicine, education, and more
History Scavenger Hunt is on (pick up at gate or Visitor Center)
10:30 a.m. American court martial
11:00 a.m. Learning how to drill the American and British ways—for children of all ages (repeated at 1:00 p.m.)
11:30 a.m. Unit drills in camps
1:00 p.m. Guided tours of American and British camps; meet at entrances to either camp
1:30 p.m. Learning how to drill the American and British ways—for children of all ages
2:00 p.m. Mistress Davenport’s 18th century schoolhouse and storytelling
3:00 p.m. Music from the Seth Warner Mount Independence Fife & Drum Corps
3:30 p.m. Narrated tactical demonstration on Monument Hill
4:30 p.m. Guided battlefield tour; meet outside Visitor Center
5:30 p.m. Visitor Center closes
8:00 p.m. Memorial Service at the monument


Sunday, July 6, 2008

8:00 a.m. Narrated Battle of Hubbardton Reenactment on Monument Hill
History Scavenger Hunt is on (pick up at gate or Visitor Center)
9:00 a.m. Revolutionary Trek across Vermont; start of relay to send the battle news to the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Windsor, VT, at the Old Constitution House
Camps open to public; ongoing demonstrations of camp life, engineering, cooking, colonial crafts, medicine, education, and more
9:30 a.m. Guided battlefield tour, meet at Visitor Center
10:30 a.m. Artillery demonstration; Guided tours of American and British camps; meet at entrances to either camp; Mistress Davenport’s 18th century schoolhouse & storytelling
11:30 a.m. British Court martial
1:00 p.m. Narrated tactical demonstration on Monument Hill
2:00 p.m. Guided battlefield tour; meet outside Visitor Center
Camps close
5:30 p.m. Visitor Center closes


We actually attended this event last year, and as I recall it was a lot of fun. The website has some pictures from last year’s event that includes a few of the regiment:

Kris & Kolby

Kris in Battle

First New Hampshire Boys

Kolby 1
Kolby 2
Kolby 3

Kolby and Jeffrey 1
Kolby and Jeffrey 2
Kolby and Jeffrey 3

Believe me yours faithfully,
Rachel