SELECTED EVENTS AND GATHERINGS

This is a listing of some of the events we may be participating in this year. Keep in mind that dates are not etched in stone and should be confirmed before making definite plans. The MVIM does not sponsor or coordinate any of these events and we are supplying this list only as a public service. These are some the F+I events that we currently know of, if you know of any events not listed here, please let us know so we can post them for all to see. Please contact the event personnel regarding any specific questions. Links to some of these event sites are on our links page. For more info about a specific event, or to see if we are partipating, E-mail us and come along as one of our unit! Thank you for your interest, and we hope to see you at some of them! NOTE- Info in parentheses indicate the historical period of the event.

Please bear with us, this partial schedule is as of 8/1/2000. Check back often as the calendar fills up!

2000

FEBRUARY

23rd-We have a speaking engagement at UMass-Lowell, for a group call LIRA. The topic will be "The Merrimack Valley in the French and Indain War years"

MARCH

5th-Boston Massacre - Boston MA-This year it's on a Sunday, so we have all day to do what we do best, that is, be a hostile mob of rabble. There will be the venues, the traditional one at night by the Old State House, and during the day at the Paul Revere Mall in the North End where we will reenact a similar event that happened days earlier. The daytime event has never been reenacted before, so it should be interesting.

APRIL

8th-Bedford Liberty Pole Parade and Ceremony - A short parade from Bedford High School to Liberty Pole Park, where there will be speeches and a traditional liberty pole capping. Always followed by a hotdog and bean dinner and plenty of 18th century shopping.
15th-Battle Road - Although we aren't attending this one as a unit, there are several of our members going with other units. It is going to be the largest RevWar event on the site to date. Even if you don't take part in or watch the reenactment, there is expected to be some top notch shopping at the sutlers.
29-30th-Fort #4's 2nd Annual Living History Workshop - What semed like a good idea last year has turned into a tradition! A two day series of workshops about and for living history people. There is scheduled to be talks on: archaeology, 18th century medicine, what to pack for a scouting expedition, the properties and history of gunpowder, musket and cannon safety and more!

MAY

6th-Fort at #4's Native American Workshop
20-21st-Fort Ticonderoga's "College of the French and Indian Wars"
20-21st-Fort at #4's Opening Weekend
20-21st-"Olde Longmeadow Days" A new event, the annual giant craft festival held on Longmeadow Common, which is rumored to be the largest town common in New England, has added an 18th century section to help celebrate the town's heritage. Expected are: a gunsmith (Jeff), basketmaker (Kathy), market gunner (Al), pewtersmith, a doctor (Pete), a candlemaker (Michelle) and colonial children's games (Sue).
The Militia musters at Ft. No. Four

JUNE

3-4th-Fort #4's Revoultionary War Weekend
10-11th-Fort #4's Native American Weekend
17-18th-Fort #4's Weaving and Textiles Weekend
23-25th-Fort Ticonderoga's Grand Encampment of the French and Indian War Wicked French and bloodthirsty Indians at Ft. Ti's F+I Weekend

JULY

14-15th-Exeter N.H. Revolutionary War Weekend
15th-Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival, Westfield Mass.
15-16th-Sutler Weekend at Fort #4

AUGUST

4-5th-Fort at #4's French and Indian War Weekend
12-13th-Crown Point Historic Site's French and Indian War Weekend
26-27th-Battle of Bennington VT - A RevWar event, one of my favorites, it exemplifies more than any other battle in history the Yankee determination to self rule. So many of the participants in the 1777 battle only took part in this one event, then went home. This was not a large organized colonial army against the Redcoats, this was angry farmers and craftsman who came together under General Stark to train, equip themselves, and crush a force of British regulars and German mercinaries. The reenactment is hosted each year by the Living History Association.

SEPTEMBER

9-10th-Revolutionary War Weekend at Fort Ticonderoga
15-17th-Fort at #4's Fall Muster
15-17th-Muster in the Mountains
30th-Oct. 1st-Harmon's Snowshoemen Garrison Fort at #4

OCTOBER

7-8th-Clan Wars 2000 - From the people who brought us Culloden 98,99, and 2000. This Scottish Highlander event will be held at Fort Engagement in Milford NY. I will post more details as soon as I read the information packet.
7-9th-Fort #4's Spinning Workshop
14-15th-Roger's Rangers Return to Fort #4 - They have just raided Odenak and killed all of the inhabitants, now they have had to flee with an army of angry Abeaki Warriors on their heels, no food, come and see them straggle into the fort and safety.
29th-Fort #4 Closes for the season

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