Current Events
Current Civil War-related events, related to Vermont and nationwide. This page is totally dependant on outside input. So if you want your event listed, send me an email with the article as you want it presented. Also, since there are so many organizations and schedules online already, I've simply linked to many of them.
May 15, 2006
Bethel Historical Society & Rotary
6 PM, White Church, Bethel. Joint meeting of the Bethel Historical Society and Bethel Rotary. After dinner, ($10 pp), catered by Maybelle Dumont, we will enjoy a presentation by Janet Hayward Burnham. She will tell us about Charles Fairbanks, 16 year old Civil War Sharpshooter...a Bethel boy, based on Charlie's Civil War memoir, written in 1899. His recounting is an excellent introduction to what it was like to be a teenage Union sharpshooter...seeing Washington for the first time with its unfinished Capitol dome, its unpaved hog-wallow streets, being in battle, being captured at Gettysburg, watching Pickett's Charge from the Rebel side, walking 200 miles barefoot, being dirty and hungry and sick, almost dying from starvation in prison, and finally being in Appomattox Court House when the peace was signed. Copies of Charlie's book will be available for sale.
Event List for the 2nd Vermont Light Artillery Battery:
Events with an * are maximum effort events. Others are optional events that the unit may or may not attend (depending on how the season goes, member availability, etc.).
* Nassau (NY) Memorial Day Parade—Last year they paid us $175.
JVC event—Goshen, CT June 17-18 (reenactment)
* Troy—June 23, 24, 25 (reenactment)
* LHA Time Line in Wilmington Vermont—July 4th weekend (living
history)
* Hildene—July 28, 29, 30 (reenactment)
* Columbia County Fair—set up on either Tuesday 8/29 or Wednesday
8/30. Take down can be Labor Day night. (As this lasts nearly an
entire week, attendance not mandatory for the whole event.)
Millis, Massachusetts—September 16-17 (reenactment)
* Albany Rural Cemetary—September 23 (living history)
Other organizations that sponsor events:
Capitol District Civil War Round Table (Albany, NY)
Champlain Rifles (123rd New York, Co. E/14th Vermont, Co. F)
Champlain Valey Historical Reenactors, Inc.
18th Vermont Regiment, Volunteers for Historic Preservation
Civil War Interactive Interactive Calendar of Upcoming Civil War Events.
The Civil War News Exhibits and Events Calendar.
Living History Association, Marlboro, Vermont
Vermont Sons of Union Veterans.
New England Gun Shows/Reenactment Activity.
Seventy-Seventh New York Regimental Balladeers
Smithsonian Associates Civil War Programs.
Others? Let me know!
