Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War.  Highlights of this full two-day encampment include woodland natives, cannon and musket firing, cooking, primitive skills, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, pottery, children’s games, sutler camp, renown living historians, French & Indian War Era artisans, and live tactical engagements.  Every battle is different!  Take a walk back in time along the Black Bear Trail by the Sawmill Center for the Arts during open camp hours to view   British, Colonial, French, and Native American re-enactors as they portray lifestyles of the 18^th century.

Day 1: June 7th

1000am-600pm Event Open
1000am-1100am Blacksmithing Demonstration – by ‘Friends of Dennis Murray,
across from Sawmill Craft Market
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
1030pm-500pm Sutler Row Demonstrators – Want to meet with skilled artisans to
make a trade or purchase? Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing &
accoutrements? Meet tinsmiths, cordwainers, leather workers, cooks, gunsmiths,
clothiers, weapons outfitters, and gourd makers in the long field on your right as you
come into the main Sawmill entrance.
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 Black
Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom
100pm-200pm Nasty Ned the Frontiersmen: 18th Century Teller of Tales &
Historical Fact’- by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking, at the
Sawmill Theater
200pm-300pm 18th Century Children’s Games – by the Noel family-Compagnie
LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site
300pm-600pm Powderhorn Fabrication Workshop – by Paul Stillman, living
historian from Historically Speaking in the Old Sawmill Classroom, $25 for materials
300pm-500pm Blacksmithing Demonstration – by ‘Friends of Dennis Murray’,
across from Sawmill Craft Market
330pm-400pm Cannon & Musket Firing Demo – 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

Day 2: June 8th

900am-330pm Event Open
900am-930am 18th Century Sunday Service
by Rick Sanguigni of ’Friends of Dennis Murray’, located in the main
encampment site along Black Bear Trail
930am-1100am Blacksmithing Demonstration
by ‘Friends of Dennis Murray’, across from Sawmill Craft Market
930am-300pm French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators
Meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in
the old Sawmill Classroom
930pm-300pm Sutler Row Demonstrators – Want to meet with
skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase? Looking to get into the
hobby and need clothing & accoutrements? Meet tinsmiths,
cordwainers, leather workers, cooks, gunsmiths, clothiers, weapons
outfitters, and gourd makers in the long field on your right as you
come into the main Sawmill entrance.
1015am-1045am 18th Century Children’s Games – by the Noel
Family-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main
encampment site
1100am-200pm Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication – by Paul
Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking, in the Old
Sawmill Classroom, $15 for materials
1130am-1200pm In Defense of the Homeland– morning surprise
tactical assault at the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail
1230pm-200pm Blacksmithing Demonstration
by ‘Friends of Dennis Murray’, 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