AMERICAN HISTORY FEST SCHEDULE
For the complete schedule please scroll down below. In the meantime, please view the Scavenger Questionnaire Hunt questions we are passing out for the school children to help enhance their history education experience this year! How many can you answer!
Revolutionary War
- Who was the first president of the United States of America?
- Who helped General Washington at Valley Forge train the soldiers?
Flagsi of Our Country
3. Who was Captain John Paul Jones? What was his famous answer?
4. A white background and black wording with the words “COME AND TAKE IT” and a cannon on the white background. What time in history does this flag represent?
War of 1812
5. How big was the original 15 star, 15 stripe flag the Star Spangle Banner was written by Francis Scott Key?
6. The blue flag with white lettering, that says “Don’t Give Up the Ship”.
7. What was the name of the Navy Commadore who flew that flag on his ship?
8. What was the name of his ship?
9. What battle was he engaged in at that time?
10. Who was one of the pirates who operated in the early colonies.
11. What gives butter its yellow color?
12. What kind of wood do you use to make a butter churn?
13. What are the two steps to preserve butter?
Civil War
14. Who was Frederick Douglass?
15. How long did it take to fire a cannon in the Civil War?
16. What was the biscuit called the soldiers ate in the Civil War?
17. There were how many different national flags of the Confederacy?
18. Why did they change their flags?
19. Where was Abe Lincoln born?
20. How long did Abe Lincoln live in Indiana?
21. At the Battle of Gettysburg, who was the Colonel at Little Round Top?
He was the savior of the battle.
22. What unit was he from?
23. Lincoln became President March 4, 1861. When did the Civil War start?
World War I
24. What was a Donut Lassie?
25.What type of equipment was issued to ladies in the Salvation Army while they were in France during WW I?
26.What is the lady’s name from Huntington, Indiana who started making donuts for the soldiers during WW I?
27. What did they use at first for a rolling pin to roll out the donuts?
American Legion
28. What organization did Teddy Roosevelt Jr. help start after WW I?
29. Where was the first post of the American Legion?
Eddie Price
30. What do you call the large, covered flatboats used to transport goods to New Orleans?
31. How were these big boats powered?
32. What products were shipped to New Orleans by Midwest farmers?
33.What was used to shape roofing shingles so they would fit evenly?
34. What was the most common wood for shingles?
35. What was the most common substance used for making candles?
36. What was the rarer, clean-smelling substance used in making candles?
37. What type of pen did they write with early in our country?
Cricket
38. In what country did cricket originate?
39. Was cricket played in Indiana during the nineteenth century?
40. A cricket game is scored by:
A. goals
B. Runs
C. Points
41. The flag with 13 stripes, blue canton with an eagle in the center and 26 stars, 13 above the eagle and 13 below the eagle. From the 1840’s is what Generals flag?
42. What is one of the oldest flags from our country, before we became the United States?
43. In the Civil War they ate Hard Tack, what did they eat in WWII? In Korea? In Vietnam? In Iraq and Afghanistan?
44. How many soldiers served in World War 1? World War 2? Korea? Vietnam? Iraq and Afghanistan?
Most Events Occur at Angola’s Commons Park and their Selman Timber Frame unless otherwise noted.
Friday, September 27
8:00 am to 3:00 pm – School children spend the day exploring and learning history from past to present.
Education Day
Camps Open to the Public
Over 800 area school children have been invited
To learn from the Living History Event
From 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
President Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglas
Civil War Medicine
Union Camps
Confederate Camps
Union & Confederate Artillery
Writing with a Quill Pen
Flags of our Country
Period Dance Instruction
Butter Making
Ohio River Heritage (Eddie Price)
1941 1 ½ Ton Military Truck
World War I
Doughnut Lassie WW I
Admiral Farragut (Civil War)
6 PM – Russ Chandler free concert performing 50’s, 60’s and 70’s music
Saturday September 28, 2024
9 AM – 5:00 PM Event and camps open to the public
All day – Flags of Our Country
Civil War Medicine
Admiral Farragut
World War I
World War I Doughnut Lassie
Writing with a Quill Pen
Frederick Douglass
World War II Truck
Butter Making
American Legion
Union Quartermaster
Civil War Artillery
Civil War Drill
10 AM – Eddie Price at his tent. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy
11 AM –President Abe Lincoln at his tent. How I Became President
12 PM – Admiral Farragut at the pavilion. My Life in the Navy
1 PM – Musket Demonstration at Confederate Camp
1 PM – Eddieb Price at his tent. The American Revolution in the West
2 PM – Frederick Douglass at his tent. I and President Lincoln
3 PM – Pay call Confederate Paymaster’s tent Spectators Only
4 PM – Eddie Price at his tent. Remember the River Raisin
5 PM – Reenactors break for evening meal camps close
6:30 PM – Period Dance. Public welcome to join the dance till about 10 PM
9:30 PM – Night Fire Artillery
Sunday September 29, 2024
9 AM – 2:30 PM – Event and camps open to the public
10 AM – Eddie Price at his tent. Cane Ridge Revival
11 AM – President Abe Lincoln at his tent. My Generals
12 PM – Pay call for reenactors at Our Country’s Flag tent
1 PM – Auburn Community Band
2:30 PM – Event Closes