Day 571 Spring Revolutionary War Encampment 2013 in Fairhaven MA

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The Fairhaven Village Militia will be holding their  Spring Revolutionary War Encampment over Memorial Day weekend  on  Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26, 2013 at  Fort Phoenix, Fort Street, Fairhaven, MA.    This is free family event that kids of all ages will enjoy some living history.

During the Memorial day weekend, members of the Fairhaven Village Militia and the Fairhaven Office of Tourism will live in an authentic period camp the same way it was done more than 230 years ago. Men, women and children dressed in period clothing will reenact life in 1778 and talk about the history of the fort. They will also be demonstrating campfire cooking, fire starting with flint and steel, musket ball casting, military drilling, loading and firing flintlock muskets and rifles, 18th-century dentistry and medicine, cannon firing and more. Visitors may try their hand at tomahawk throwing and children’s games of the period.

. The highlight of the weekend will be the firing of the fort’s five large cannons, scheduled for dusk, approximately 7:45 p.m., on Saturday. When fired near sundown, the cannons’ plumes of flames and smoke make a spectacular sight.

Saturday hours 10am-sunset and Sunday 10am-3pm