The Long Run Massacre

Presented by The Painted Stone Settlers
September 9 - 10, 2022

School Day 

871 Students visit 22 Stations to learn about life on the Kentucky frontier

Buses and cars arrive at the site about 9 AM. Giving  schools until about 1 PM to move through the camp, learning and asking questions.

Elizabeth Chalfant of The Fort Boonesborough Foundation shares artifacts from the fort and an 18th century Elk antler.

School groups are sectioned into groups of 25 to 30 to move from station to station. And the learning begins.

Volunteer Tina Hagee explains foodstuffs of the native camp.

Schools gather at the top of the hill, and receive a map and directions to visit each of the stations.

Native interpreter Russell Morris is a storyteller and teaches about Native life in the 18th Century.

Matty Ward portrays a Butler's Ranger a group that was loyal to the King and tells about his tools and implements.

School children stand next to members of the cannon crew and learn what their job would have entailed on the crew.

At 11 AM all schools gather at the bleachers to watch a cannon demonstration. They love when it goes BOOM!

Larry McQuown explains how horses were used on the frontier. His gentle horse loves being petted and brushed by students.

Interpreter Pam Eddy cooked over the fire and taught about what food would have been available to frontier families.

At noon, visiting schools could eat lunch under the shade trees at Red Orchard Park.

The Many Faces of Painted Stone 

The Attack of the Settlers

While crossing Long Run Creek on the way to Linn Station

The Prisoner Exchange

The SAR Color Guard

Sons of the American Revolution - Isaac Shelby Chapter

Additional Photos from the event

The moon on the night we began setting up camp
Saturday night camp by moonlight
Evening Entertainment
The Memorial
Preparing the Cannon
Night Firing the Cannon
A Camp by firelight
Mobirise

See the Video by Family Tree Nuts, History & Genealogy Service. They were live at the event now on their facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/familytreenuts/videos/2020732678137642/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&ref=sharing

Special thanks to all of the re-enactors who came out for the weekend.

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