Living History Day

The Battle of Sacramento Reenactment Committee extends an invitation to educators and their students to participate in a Living History Educational Day Program scheduled for Friday, May 21, 2010. This educational and fun event begins at 9 am and ends around 2 pm.

Admission fee is $3/student and $5/adults. This also includes a souvenir button that will give you entrance to the entire weekend events! While Friday does not include an actual reenactment, students will be able to view the civilian camps and see how people lived during this era. Period crafts and demonstrations will be presented throughout the day. There will also be demonstrations in the authentic camps, hospital units and typical camp life for a soldier. Period merchantiles will be open for shopping and browsing.

Tentative List for the 2010 Living History Day includes:

• demonstrations of: soap maker, spinning & weaving (3 ladies),
• period homelife by the Reckner Family),
• "Mail Call" by Cobbs Battery,
• "Sick Call" - field hospital units,
• Engineers, civil engineer portrayed by Scott House will demonstrate civil eng. tools and items,
• blacksmiths,
• and dulcimer musicians.
• Patty House will have period games.
• Tamela Boone, who will be demonstrating soap making and will be discussing Slavery during the Civil War.
• Kelley Lelegrent and her husband will be demonstrating the making of tin items from period civil war tools & will have spinning wheel.

Special guests include General & Mrs. Robert E. Lee, General &
Mrs. Grant and President Lincoln.

If your school did not receive a packet of information and registration form, contact Marilyn Green by clicking here or calling (270) 781-6858.
(Below see some of the past participants.)

Many more photos from the 2009 Living History Day can be found by clicking here.