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20th Annual Cook Forest French & Indian War Encampment
June 8, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cook Forest State Park and the Sawmill Center for the Arts will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War.
Highlights of this full two-day encampment include children’s programs, woodland natives, cannon and musket firing demonstrations, sutler camp, council and trading events, nationally renowned living historians, French & Indian War era artisans, and live tactical engagements.
Every battle is different!
Take a walk back in time at the Sawmill Center for the Arts to view British, Colonial, French, and American Indian re-enactors as they portray lifestyles of the 18th century.
For all information and schedules, click here.
Saturday, June 8
1000am-600pm Event Open
1000am-1100am Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market
1000am-1200pm Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication – by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking in the old Sawmill Classroom ($15 for materials)
1000am-400pm Cooking Demonstration – by Geoffrey Domowicz, Compagnie LeBoeuf chef, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site
1030pm-500pm French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators – meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in the Old Sawmill Classroom
1100am-1130am Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration – by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
1130am-1200pm Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along the abandoned access road at the edge of the field beside the park swimming pool.
1200pm-300pm 18th Century Surgical Techniques – by Dave Crispen, 42nd Highland Regiment surgeon’s mate, at the NEW Sawmill Classroom
100pm-200pm ‘American’s 1st World War: Causes of the French & Indian War as Told Through the Eyes of Benjamin Franklin’ by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking (free, but donations towards the event will be accepted)
200pm-300pm 18th Century Children’s Games – by Jen Domowicz, Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site
230-500pm – Powderhorn & Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication – by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking in the Old Sawmill Classroom ($15 for materials)
300pm-500pm Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market
330pm-400pm Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration — by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
400pm-430pm Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
Sunday, June 9
900am-400pm Event Open
900am-915am 18th Century Sunday Service – by the 42nd Highland Regiment, located in the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail
930am-1100am Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market
1015am-1045am Children’s Musket Drill – by camp Corps of Re-enactors, at the water tower along Black Bear Trail
1100am-200pm Powderhorn & Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication – by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking, in the old Sawmill Classroom ($15 for materials)
1100am-200pm French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in the old Sawmill Classroom
1100am-1130am Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration – by the camp Corps of Artillery, in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
1130am-1200pm Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along the abandoned access road at the edge of the field beside the park swimming pool.
1230pm-200pm 18th Century Surgical Techniques by Dave Crispen, 42nd Highland Regiment surgeon’s mate, at the NEW Sawmill Classroom
1230pm-200pm Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market
200pm-230pm Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration – by the camp Corps of Artillery, in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
230pm-300pm Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
Cook Forest State Park
100 RT 36, Cooksburg, PA 16217-0120
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