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Front Page Stories from 2008
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Well... maybe not exactly the high seas. More like Lake Monroe near Bloomington, Indiana. This lighthearted event, entitled “The Pirates of Paynetown” over the weekend gave re-enactors a chance to really kick up their heels. The weather was nearly perfect, the crowds were great and re-enactors with period replica boats of all sorts got to take to the water. Several cannons on shore were pointed in their direction and a slew of British officers and their men awaited their arrival on shore. Newsreel ...coming soon. Photos now loaded
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Fort Boonesborough Trade Days
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Fort Boonesborough hosted it’s annual Trade Days over Memorial Day Weekend. Re-Enactors camped both inside and outside the Fort as a record number of visitors for Trade Fair Weekend came through the gates.
The weather was perfect and The Fort Boonesborough Foundation was on hand selling food and drinks. Authors Dale Payne and John Curry were on hand signing and selling books. Several of Saturday’s visitors were seen back on Sunday - “because they had such a good time!.”
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Re-Enactors arriving by Limo? It was an unusual mix Thursday evening as the Documentary The Story of McConnell Springs was shown at the Kentucky Theater. Narrated by award winning narrator Peter Thomas and produced by Michael Breeding Media the film will air in June on KET (Kentucky Educational Television) . Shot over the last two years primarily at Founder’s Day at McConnell Springs and other locations the film tells the story of early Lexington and it’s founders. Steve Caudill portrays William McConnell and Tony Richardson is his brother Francis McConnell. Also on hand last evening and featured in the film was Shawnee native re-enactor Greg McDonald.
For more about the project Click Here
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now in the minority, and video and sound, flash files and more are now the order of the day.
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So we’ve expanded our page size and will be reworking some of the older pages over the next few weeks. So bear with us through the transition. Email your suggestions and comments.
And watch for coming events! Because spring is here - and we’ll be taking to the road in the next few weeks. With more photos, more stories and more newsreels.
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Last year we embarked on a “face lift” for this web site. The first phase consisted of a cleaner look, easier accessibility and a wider screen size to better take advantage of today’s newer screen technologies. Yesterday we finished the second phase of this project. All articles that
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have been added over the years to the news section of our web site have been reorganized and listed in a Table of Contents. By clicking on the Pioneer Times button the viewer will be taken to a list of all the articles that have appeared on these pages. “We have had many requests from people looking for past articles” said Jim Cummings.
Now they will be able to read through the news portions of the web site by year. Although some of the articles are a bit dated there are many feature articles that are not. Features on people and locations still provide valuable information. In addition to the news stories all of the Re-Enactor of the Month Features are loaded and indexed.” Almost completed too is the last phase - which is an index and search engine feature that will be a combined index of articles, photo pages, advertisers and our web connections.
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The Sun Shines on Grassy Run
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By Kathy Cummings
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April 25-28th marked the 16th Annual Grassy Run Rendezvous. Hosted by the Grassy Run Historical Arts Committee the event takes place in Williamsburg in Clermont County Ohio.
In addition to the traditional events this year’s event was dedicated to SSgt. Matt Maupin a Clermont County native who’s funeral was taking place this same weekend - after his death in Iraq four years ago.
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Season Starts with a Cold Weekend for the Illinois Regiment at Locust Grove
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A cold and wet weekend in Louisville, Kentucky is not usually on the agenda for the middle of April.
On the river front Louisville hosts the largest fireworks in the country - known as Thunder Over Louisville - the kickoff to three weeks of Kentucky Derby Festival Events.
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While up on a hillside not too far from downtown there is another event - known as 18th Century Thunder. Re-Enactors add to the thunder noise with a bit of 18th century black powder. The photo above was taken near the Croghan family cemetery as the assembled troops gave a salute to George Rogers Clark who spent his final days at Locust Grove, the home of his sister and brother in law William and Lucy Clark Croghan. Click Here for more photos.
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Managers Conference Held
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The 2nd Annual Event Planners & Historic Site Managers Conference was held at Blue Licks Battlefield State Park on March 5-7. The Conference was hosted by The Fort Boonesborough Foundation. Read the Story.
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Scott New Returns to
Kentucky Humanities Council Chautauqua
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By Kathy Cummings
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After three years working as character interpreters for Colonial Williamsburg, Scott and Berni New have come home. According to New, “ We are delighted to be back on home ground again amidst friends and family. We felt we had made our mark at Colonial Williamsburg and were becoming awfully homesick. You are never too old, or busy, to learn the old lesson all over again that there is ‘no place like home’. By the grace of Providence, we were able to return.”
“I will once again be taking up the mantle, or should I say, hunting shirt of Daniel Boone. I am delighted to be back with the Kentucky Humanities Council as before. We plan on offering the Boone programs right where we left off.”
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Visitors to last weekend’s Martin Station event may have also noticed that New is back with Wilderness Road State Park. Continued New,” I hope to see a number of familiar faces at our various events. We have hopes of really making progress with our living history programming, and are very exited about the potential. We hope to be establishing a good partnership not only with the Cumberland Gap National Park, but with historic sites in Kentucky, southwest Virginia and perhaps east Tennessee as well. After all, we are all telling the same story, just different chapters. God willing there are good days ahead all way around!”
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