Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Fall Festival, Shawnee, Tom Carson, beans on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It all begins peacefully enough on a mild October morning, with Squire Miller and Mistress Rebecca picking beans in the field outside the fort.
Little do they suspect that the fearsome Shawnee Two Hawks and his band are skulking up through the forest only yards away!
At just the right moment, when his intended victims have their backs to him, [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Dairy Day, Judy Wilson, goats on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dairy Day at the fort dawned particularly hot and muggy, and it never improved. Notwithstanding the heat, however, the proceedings were well-attended, with about a hundred visitors passing through during the day to observe the milking of the goat by its owner, Judy Wilson, and the making of cottage cheese and butter.
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Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, Fourth of July, Tom Carson, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, recruitment on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recruiting new militiamen for an expedition against the Shawnee in the Ohio Territory, on the Cuyahoga River, took place on July 4th and 5th at Pricketts Fort, with indifferent success reported.
Although a fair number of interested men initially stepped forward to join the ranks, once it was explained to them that, at [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Cherokee, Doug Wood, Mary Rose Mustachio, Ostenaco, Shawnee on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Participants in the 2009 Woodland Indian Camp at Pricketts Fort were witness to a rare event on Wednesday evening, July 1: the appearance of one of the most widely renowned and honored of Cherokee chiefs, the mid-eighteenth century orator and warrior Ostenaco (portrayed by historian and re-enactor Doug Wood).
During the early 1760s, Ostenaco moved [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, sheep on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not all tomahawk throwing & telling tall tales around the campfire out here on the romantic Virginia frontier, not by a long shot ….
Day to day life at the fort is just a bit more prosaic. Take Two Hawks here, passing an idyllic Spring morning mucking out the sheep pen [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan, civilian militia on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War.
At [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Civil War, Job Prickett House, Lee Miller on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are really two different periods of American history to be found here at Pricketts Fort. The first period, of course, is the frontier period, centered around the year 1774 during the uprising of the Mingo and Shawnee tribes under Chief Logan and Lord Dunmore’s War which immediately followed. This [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Mingo, Monongahela River, Shawnee, uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Continuing my leisurely saunter through the encampment, I ventured inside the fort and happened into the meetinghouse, where I chanced upon a scene which might have come straight out of Withers’ Chronicles of Border Warfare: a pioneer woman walking into her cabin to find a Shawnee warrior warming himself at her fire: surely every [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Christmas Market, Greg Bray, Judy Wilson, Mary Rose Mustachio, Michael Ray, Tom Carson, Wild Willy Frankfort, cat, flintlock rifles, powderhorn, wool on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Faithful friend of the Fort, Tom Carson, maintained a keen-eyed vigil through much of the Market, conversing with visitors and directing them from one building to another.
He was assisted at times by his compadre Queen Aliquippa, the ever-present cat-of-the-fort.
Inside the fort, the two main buildings, the Trading Post and the Meeting House, were given over [...]
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Cordelia Spencer, Fall Festival, Greg Bray, Judy Wilson, Lee Miller, Okey Simmons, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, applebutter, autumn, bear fat, blacksmithing, civilian militia, domestic life, frontier forts, frontier women, harvest, living history, powderhorn, re-enacting, wigwam on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
