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Battle re-enactments on land and on river highlight Ogdensburg Founder's Weekend Friday through Sunday

Posted 7/14/16

OGDENSBURG -- The Fort de la Présentation Association will host their Founder’s Weekend July 15 to 17 with battle re-enactments both on land and on the river and other historical-themed events. It …

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Battle re-enactments on land and on river highlight Ogdensburg Founder's Weekend Friday through Sunday

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OGDENSBURG -- The Fort de la Présentation Association will host their Founder’s Weekend July 15 to 17 with battle re-enactments both on land and on the river and other historical-themed events.

It will be on the fort grounds at Lighthouse Point off state Route 68.

This year’s gathering will start with a new event, ghost stories and colonial tales around the campfire with Courtney Doyle. Admission is free, but people can bring a non-perishable food donation for the Ogdensburg Neighborhood Center. Attendees should bring a chair. Rain location is the Sherman Inn, 615 Franklin St.

Saturday and Sunday admission is $7, $4 with military ID, $2 for ages 6 to 16 and free for under age 5. Sunday admission is free for youth under age 16 when accompanied by an adult.

There will be colonial trades, camp life, drills, exhibits and demonstrations throughout the weekend, as well as a scavenger hunt for kids.

Saturday gates open at 10 a.m.

Cartridge rolling with George Cherepon will be from 10 a.m. to noon. He will show how ammunition was created in the 18th century.

At 10:30 a.m., there will be demonstrations of colonial trades including cask and bucket making, children’s toys and tin ornaments. Also at that time will be a talk with colonial mid-wife Holly Miller on medicine, herbal medicines, midwifery and other treatments of the time.

The water battle begins at 11 a.m. Children can learn to march and drill at 11:30 a.m.

Noon will be a lecture “A Gallant Little Fleet: The French Flotilla on Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War” with Vic Suthren. Jack Frost will give a synopsis of the war at 1 p.m.

The land battle begins at 1 p.m., proceeded by Dale Henry’s lecture “Ships and Boats of the Colonial Period” at 2 p.m. Another children’s muster follows at 2 p.m.

At 3 p.m. there will be an English country dance demo with a live caller. It is similar to square dancing. Another lecture will be at 3:30 p.m., “Native American Culture” with Rick Salazar. Gates close at 5:30 p.m. There will be an English country dance at the Freight House with free admission at 7:30 p.m. It is on the highway across from the fort grounds.

Sunday opens with a Catholic Mass at Lighthouse Point. People should bring their own chairs. There is on-site parking for the service. Rain location is Notre Dame Church.

Gates open at 10 a.m., when there will be a groundbreaking for the Abbé Picquet Monument interpretive walking trail, as well as a cartridge-rolling demo with Cherepon.

A water battle starts at 11 a.m. with a children’s muster at 11:30 a.m.

At noon, John-Eric Nelson will give a lecture “The Final Assault on New France 1760.” He is a historian studying Connecticut provincial troops in the French and Indian War from 1745 to 1764. He will explain the British drive down the St. Lawrence River in 1760, battles in the local area, and final control of Montreal

Frost will give a synopsis of the war at 1 p.m.

Festivities close with a 1:30 p.m. land battle.