Yesterday Rena and I left Coshocton, drove to Columbus where our son, Scott, joined us, and we continued to a place near Springfield, Ohio. The event we attended is called The Fair at New Boston and is a Colonial-era reenactment held each Labor Day weekend.
My brother, Frank and his wife, Carol, portray people typical of those who lived in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Frank is known as Parson John and portrays a preacher. At many of the events he and Carol attend, Parson John holds a church service on the Sunday morning of the reenactment using music and a sermon typical of the time period.
Scott, Frank and I at the Fair
Carol portrays an Irish indentured servant named Maggie. This year Maggie gives demonstrations as to how laundry was done. She's a popular person at the reenactments, bantering back and forth with other reenactor with her quick "Irish" wit. Not many people portray the servant class, with most preferring to be artisans, merchants, military personel, entertainers, or gentle folk.
Carol and Rena visit a moment between loads of laundry
A wealthy couple talk with a fellow who appears to be a French trapper-trader
A fire-eater at the fair
As is the case with many reenactments, there was a military battle involved. We were at the Indian encampment when they were preparing to do "battle" with the British.
Back safe and sound in the Twenty-first Century,
Dwight
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