Archive for the ‘wigwam’ Category
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, applebutter, autumn, bear fat, blacksmithing, civilian militia, Cordelia Spencer, domestic life, Fall Festival, frontier forts, frontier women, Greg Bray, harvest, Judy Wilson, Lee Miller, living history, Okey Simmons, powderhorn, re-enacting, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, wigwam on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First color . . .
Posted in autumn, blacksmithing, Greg Bray, wigwam, tagged Add new tag on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The days have been decidedly cooler, with the result that we are all lingering a little longer beside the fires in the main cabins. There have been other signs of autumn as well: a large maple behind the Bray Blacksmith Shop took on a yellow hue almost overnight a couple of days ago; another bald [...]
a fallen tree
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Greg Bray, Shawnee, wigwam on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Upon occasion a tree will fall, and one did just that sometime last night, landing close to the new wigwam. Situated as it is among a grove of mature locusts — which are not, shall we say, the most stalwart of trees — an occasional windfall such as this is only to be expected. The fall [...]
beyond the fort walls, a wigwam takes shape
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Joe Candillo, living history, Michael Ray, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, wigwam on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In recent days a new structure has appeared in a grove of trees within sight of Pricketts Fort, an Eastern Woodlands Indian wigwam. Constructed by Joe Candillo and his father John, members of the Pascua Yaqui tribe, with help from Pricketts Fort staffers Michael Ray (potter & militiaman) and Aaron Bosnick (native interpreter), the work gets [...]













































