Artillery demonstrated at battlefield

Jim Spillars (right), a volunteer interpreter from Fayetteville, demonstrates how to swab the bore of a 6-pound smoothbore cannon recently during a Civil War Union artillery demonstration at Pea Ridge National Military Park. The park performs the interpretive living history presentations roughly every other week from May through September. See the community calendar on page 5A or go to nps.gov/peri for dates and times.

Staff photograph by Ben Goff