Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Independence Festival

Well, I'm back from Oriskany (have been for a few days actually), but while I get my photos in order from that event and before I write a post about the weirdest weekend ever, I'll share some of my pictures from the event I went to before that! These are from the Exeter Independence Festival, back at the end of July.


While we were setting up on Friday evening, our commander quipped at the Royal Irish Artillery that they had parked a cannon in his space. They promptly surrounded his truck with more guns. 

We had music on Saturday, and our musician attracted a wandering fiddler (right)!

I worked on sewing my new stays while listening to music.

The King's Rangers and the 10th Regiment of Foot made an impressive sight. 

Colonel O'Shaughnessey commanded the Americans that they hand over the town to the King. 

Our commander watches as the 10th prepares to fire the King's salute!

The women of the King's Rangers learned to fire muskets.

The Royal Irish also let me fire their cannon!



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4 comments:

  1. There's an award for you on my blog!
    http://teacupsamongthefabric.blogspot.com/2012/10/liebster-award.html
    Laurie

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  2. We are always at the Exeter event, and live not too far from there. We are members of the King's Own, 4th Reg't of Foot.
    Hope to meet you at an event one day~
    Mary
    http://anhistoricallady.blogspot.com

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  3. I’ve nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blog Award: http://americanseamstress.blogspot.com/2013/04/blog-award-time.html

    Best,
    Laura

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  4. Hello Alexa, I just came across a 2011 post on the SilkBrocade's Passion for Fashion blog and saw you're lovely child sized civil war outfits. I was wondering if you can custom make one for my son who will be 5 in June. I couldn't find an e-mail address or phone for you so please forgive me posting in an unrelated section. Thank you. Tyler

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