Cook Forest announces French & Indian War schedule

COOK FOREST — Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French and 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, renowned living historians, French and Indian War Era artisans and live tactical engagements.

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 18th century.

Saturday, June 8:

• 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Event open.

• 10-11 a.m. Blacksmithing demonstration by Friends of Dennis Murray, across from Sawmill Craft Market

• 10 a.m. to noon: Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking, in the Old Sawmill Classroom, $15 for materials

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cooking demonstration by Geoffrey Domowicz, Compagnie LeBoeuf chef, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site

• 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. French and Indian War era art and demonstrators. Meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans and demonstrators in the Old Sawmill Classroom

• 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sutler Row demonstrators. Want to meet with skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase? Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing and 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.

• 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Confrontation at the Forks: The Ohio Company Fort and Its Surrender. Ttreaty and fort surrender engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the Old Sawmill Classroom

• 1-2 p.m. Stoffel Stump: The Man Who Walked with Conrad Weiser by Richard Pawling ,nationally renowned living historian from History Alive! at the Sawmill Theater

• 2-3 p.m. 18th Century Children’s Games by the Noel family-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear

Trail at the main encampment site

• 2-5 p.m. Powderhorn Fabrication Workshop by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking in the Old Sawmill Classroom, $25 for materials

• 2:30-3:30 p.m. The Opportunity to Meet the Character Within the Character by Richard Pawling, nationally renowned living historian from History Alive! At the new Sawmill Classroom.

• 3-5 p.m. Blacksmithing demonstration by Friends of Dennis Murray, across from Sawmill Craft Market.

• 3:30-4 p.m. Cannon and Musket Firing Demo by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

• 4-4:30 p.m. Peril in the Forest tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

• 8-9 p.m. An Evening to Be Remembered: Stoeffel & His Son Frederick Will Take You on a Journey to be Remembered by Richard Pawling, nationally renowned living historian from History Alive! at the Sawmill Theater.

Sunday, June 9:

• 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Event open.

• 9-9:30 a.m. 18th

Century Sunday Service by Rick Sanguigni of Friends of Dennis Murray, located in the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail.

• 9:30-11 a.m. Blacksmithing demonstration by Friends of Dennis Murray, across from Sawmill Craft Market.

• 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. French and Indian War era art and demonstrators. Meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans and demonstrators in the old Sawmill Classroom.

• 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sutler Row demonstrators. Want to meet with skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase? Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing and 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.

• 10:15-10:45 a.m. 18th Century Children’s Games by the Noel FamilyCompagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site

• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Turkey Wingbone Call Fabrication by Paul Stillman, living historian from Historically Speaking, in the Old Sawmill Classroom, $15 for materials.

• 11:30 a.m. to noon: In Defense of the Homeland morning surprise tactical assault at the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail.

• 12:30-2 p.m. Blacksmithing demonstration by Friends of Dennis Murray, across from Sawmill Craft Market.

• 2-2:30 p.m. Cannon and musket firing demonstration by the camp Corps of Artillery, in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom.

• 2:30-3 p.m. Peril in the Forest tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom