Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & 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, renown living historians, French & Indian War Era artisans, and live tactical engagements.  Every battle is different!  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 18^th century.

Saturday, June 10

1000am-600pm     Event Open                              

1000am-1100am     Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration - by Dennis Murray:  story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market

1000am-400pm     Native Cooking Demonstration - by Elizabeth Huxford-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the Native Camp in the main encampment site

1030pm-500pm     French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators - meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in the Old Sawmill Classroom

1030pm-500pm     Sutler Row Demonstrators - Want to meet with skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase?  Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing & 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.

1100am-1130am     Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration - by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

1130am-1200pm     Peril in the Forest - tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the Old Sawmill Classroom 

100pm-200pm     Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin: 1732-1762 - by Paul Stillman, noted living historian from Historically Speaking, at the Sawmill Theater  (free, but donations towards the event gladly accepted)

200pm-300pm     18th Century Children’s Games - by the Noel family-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site

300pm-500pm     Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration - by Dennis Murray,   story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market

330pm-400pm     Cannon Demo & Mad Minute Competition — by the camp Corps of  Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

400pm-430pm     Peril in the Forest - tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

Sunday, June 11

900am-400pm     Event Open

930am-945am     18th Century Sunday Service - by the 42nd Highland Regiment, located in the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail

930am-1100am     Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration - by Dennis Murray, story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market

930am-300pm     French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators - meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in the old Sawmill Classroom

930pm-300pm     Sutler Row Demonstrators - Want to meet with skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase?   Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing & 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.

1015am-1045am     18th Century Children’s Games - by the Noel Family-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main  encampment site

1130am-1200pm     In Defense of the Homeland– morning surprise tactical assault at the main encampment site along Black Bear Trail

1230pm-200pm     Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration - by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market

200pm-230pm     Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration - by the camp Corps of Artillery, in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom

230pm-300pm     Peril in the Forest - tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom