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 Fall Festival, applebutter on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Busy days at Pricketts Fort ahead of the annual Fall Festival scheduled for this weekend. A mountain of newly-split hardwood has stacked inside the fort; corn shocks erected, brought in the from the field outside the palisade; pumpkins, squash, gourds, beans & corn hung up inside the storehouse, brass kettles scrubbed and set [...]
Posted in Fall Festival, Okey Simmons, pumpkins on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If I may leave the subject of “Virginia frontier winters” temporarily, I think readers of this blog will find the following of interest . . .
For one of my posts from last autumn’s Fall Festival, I took some photos of Okey Simmons and a young re-enactor lighting jack-o-lanterns inside the trading post.
One photograph [...]
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 »
Posted in Fall Festival, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, flintlock muskets, frontier farming, frontier forts, musket balls on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I participated in my first re-enactment this past weekend during the Fall Festival here at the fort. I was working outside the stockade, gleaning the field for the last few ears of corn and gourds. Some distance away, a young woman from the fort was collecting buckwheat kernels into a basket. It [...]
Posted in Fall Festival, applebutter, candle-making, corn, soap-making, tomahawk-throwing on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are on the lookout for some early fall color and are planning to take a scenic drive along the backroads between Morgantown and Fairmont, West Virginia this coming weekend, do consider dropping by Pricketts Fort when you are out and about, and take in our annual Fall Festival.
In a beautiful, peaceful [...]
