Living History and Encampment Schedule October 3-4, 2015

All attendees will receive encampment map listing events and locations. Activities held rain or shine. Parking information.

Saturday

9 – 5 Camp Open to Public and Encampment Scavenger Hunt**

9:30 am Women’s Contributions to the War Effort*

10 am Cannon Demonstration & Firing

10:30 – 11:30 am Company Drill

11 am – 3 pm American Girl Addy Walker Scavenger Hunt**

11:30 am – 12:30 pm Sing along with Shades of Gray Camp Band*

12 – 4 pm First Baptist Church Tours

12:30 Harriet Beecher Stowe speaks at the Baptist Church

1 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing

1 – 4 pm Tea at the First Baptist Church

2 pm Encampment Dedication & Governor’s Citation followed by singing of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by the FSU Choir*

3 pm Ladies’ Fashion Show*

4 pm Dress Parade and Troop Review with President Lincoln

4:30 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing

7:30 – 10:30 pm Civil War Dance at Village Hall

Book Signing at the FHC Tent

1:30 – 2:30 Pat Lavin – My Dear Esty: Letters from Framingham’s Civil War Soldiers

2:30 – 3:30 Fred Wallace – Framingham’s Civil War Hero: The Life of General George H. Gordon

3:30 – 4:30 Tom Ellis – Framingham’s Civil War Service: A History Roster

Sunday

9 – 3 Camp Open to public and Encampment Scavenger Hunt**

9:30 am Church Service at Edgell Grove Cemetery Chapel

10 am Gravesite Service for General George H. Gordon

11 am -3 pm American Girl Addy Walker Scavenger Hunt**

11:15 – 12:15 Company Drill

12:15 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing

12:30 – 1:30 pm Sing along with Shades of Gray Camp Band*

1:30 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing

2:15 pm Dress Parade and Troop Review with President Lincoln

3 pm Cannon Fire Closes the Encampment

Book Signing at FHC Tent

12:00 – 1:00 pm Tom Ellis – Framingham’s Civil War Service: A History Roster

1:00 – 2:00 pm Fred Wallace – Framingham’s Civil War Hero: The Life of General George H. Gordon

2:00 – 3:00 pm Pat Lavin – My Dear Esty: Letters from Framingham’s Civil War Soldiers

*Activities will take place at the main tent at the center of the Common

** Pick up scavenger hunt maps at FHC Tent on the Common

Food vendors, sutlers, Topographical Engineers, tinsmith, blacksmith, wool spinner, telegraph operator, Naval Landing party, President Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, General George H. Gordon, Julia Ward Howe and more included in encampment.