Jun 29, 2019 - Jun 29, 2019
Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock Street
Portsmouth, NH
Dozens of costumed re-enactors and living history performers, presenting American history from 1602 to 1945, join the museum's roleplayers for interactions all day long across the campus. The event is included with regular daily admission. Guest reenactors include:
Strange and Farre, early North American settlers;
Crew of the Raven, maritime history;
Salem Trayned Band, 17th-century weaponry, 1637;
42nd Regiment of Foot, French and Indian War soldiers, 1756;
Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People;
Portsmouth Train Band, military training day;
His Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot, Infantry unit of the British Army;
Piscataqua Rangers Fife and Drum Corp;
Dr. Jackson, Portsmouth’s 18th century medicine;
The Federal Ladies, demonstrating women’s lives in 1798;
Harriet Jacobs, an African American writer in 1842;
Oney Judge Staines, describing colonial slavery;
Kearsarge Afterguard, Federal Civil War Navy;
Corbin’s Battery, Civil War howitzer battery;
Yesterday's Gentlemen & Ladies from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era;
NE Woman Suffrage Association;
Bessie Coleman, an African American aviator;
Mack Fire Truck 1930 pumper;
Pine Tree Chapter Model As, Model A Ford autos from the 1930s;
Vintage Express, women supporting the WWII war effort.
