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Mifflinburg Buggy Days Festival
June 6 – Education Day, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
June 7th, 9 am – 5 pm, with evening activities and
June 8th, 10am – 4 pm
Admission is Free, Parking is Free
Donations accepted to benefit the Buggy Museum
Below
is a listing of special events that are
scheduled for the Buggy Days Festival.
Friday, June 6
All events at the VFW
| 10 am – 2 pm |
The Hunt for the Alligator, discussing the search for the USS Alligator, the first United States submarine with researchers Alice Smith and Linda Tusing, members of the team searching for the lost sub. |
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Experience Camp Cooking with Ms. Dulcie, the camp cook of the 147th will discuss the hardships of camp cooking and provide a few treats. |
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Civil War Sutleries, speak with Civil War Sutlers about the role they played in the conflict and the role they play in reenactments. |
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Talk with living historians – French Mary, General John Reynolds, General Barlow and more. |
| 12 pm – 4 pm |
Watch a Civil War Army Camp take Shape |
Saturday, June 7
| 7:30 am |
Reveille, Federal Artillery Camp,VFW |
| 9:00 am |
Flag Raising, Battery B 3rd PA Light Artillery, VFW |
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Festival open to the public, VFW and Downtown |
| All Day events |
Downtown Festival Grounds |
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Buggy Rides on Market Street |
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Open House at the Gutelius House and Mifflinburg Buggy Museum |
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Demonstrations – black smith, tin smith, gun making, needlework, wheel wrighting, chair caning, buggy painting/striping, spinning, weaving, carpentry, broom making, laundry. |
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Kellyites 4H - offering activities for children |
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Good Times 4H - offering activities for children |
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Caricature artist and pastel portraits, Ingrid Howard |
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Original, made-to-order black-marker drawings for kids,
Bruce Van Patter |
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VFW Fairgrounds |
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Come meet the reenactors in the Union, Confederate and Civilian camps – talk with a refugee, chat with a schoolmarm, find out what the Sanitary Commission did for the soldiers. |
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Stroll through Sutler Row (a Civil War shopping center), purchase a dress or trinket |
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Watch a demonstration of cooking and learn about the flags of the Confederacy with Barry and Fay Stocker |
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Have your photograph taken by John Bernaski, wet plate photographer |
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Both Locations |
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Authors’ Tents – meet various authors, Richard Sauers, Mike Sanders, Guy Graybill, Richard Wagner, Troy Harman, Stan Zellers, Jerry Wemple, Sonya Anderson, Roxy Trutt and Kate Shade. Author’s times vary. |
| 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
The Hunt for the Alligator – meet Alice Smith and Linda Tusing, members of the team searching for the USS Alligator, the first US submarine, VFW |
| 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Descendant’s Tent – Share your Civil War soldier or nurse history with fellow descendants and researchers, Dr. Mary Belle Lontz will be in attendance. Tent is sponsored by the members of the Daughters of Union Veterans, Tent #60, Annabelle Vorse Clark, VFW |
| 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Sons of Union Veterans – join members of the SUV as they discuss their ancestors, Stan Zellers, descendent of the Kline brothers and John Deppen who portrays General Winfield Scott Hancock will be there. |
| 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Fleece to Shawl Demonstration - Spinners and Weavers Guild, Gutelius House |
| 10:00 am – 4:00 pm |
“Stitch in Time” Silent Quilt Auction with special “Various and Sundry Treasures”, Mifflinburg United Methodist Church, 279 Market St. |
| 11:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Joyful Hearts Costume Cottage will be offering Old Tyme Photos, dress up in Victorian Clothing and have your photos taken in a buggy or with a backdrop
Rates: $12.00 per person for photo costume rental for ages 10 & older, $5.00 per child up to age 10 for costume
Rental Price Includes: One Dress Up Costume per person for the picture One CD disk with up to 4 pictures, 2 poses |
| 11:00 am – 4:00 pm |
Meet General John Reynolds, Governor Andrew Curtin, General Winfield Scott Hancock, a Civil War Santa and other members of the Civil War Heritage Foundation, VFW. |
| 11:30 am |
“A Soldier’s Heart”, Presentation on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Civil War soldiers by Laura Estupiñan Kane, PhD., VFW |
| 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm |
Free Bean Soup for Reenactors and Spectators, Lt. Kenneth Snook, VFW |
| 1:00 pm |
[Fictitious] Battle of Chamber’s Ridge, VFW |
| 1:30 pm |
Herr Memorial Library hosts a Commonwealth Speaker, “The Fabric of Daily Life: Pennsylvania German Textile Traditions,” Mifflinburg Buggy Museum Auditorium |
| 2:30 pm |
Court Martial of a Deserter, Federal Artillery, VFW |
| 3:15 pm |
Ladies Tea, bring your own tea cup, presented by the Ladies of Battery B, VFW |
| 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Chicken Barbeque by Green Ridge Market, tickets required, VFW |
| 5:00 pm |
Downtown Festival grounds close |
| 7:00 pm |
Bring the whole family for the Civil War Ball and Cake Walk, get involved with history and learn a dance step or two and perhaps win a cake during the cake walk, music provided by the 97th Regimental String Band, VFW |
| 9:15 pm |
Night Firing by the Artillery Units, VFW |
| 9:30 pm |
Ghost Talk in Federal Artillery Camp, listen to stories of ghost sightings at Gettysburg, Antietam and other battlefields, come and share your experiences, bring your camera to capture photos of “others who might be there”, VFW |
| 10:00 pm |
Candlelight walk through the Camps, VFW |
| 11:00 pm |
Camps closed to the public, VFW |
Sunday, June 8th
| 9:30 am |
Camps open to the public, VFW |
| 10:00 am |
Church Service,William McCormick (Rev. John Lee, Milton, PA), Chaplain of the PA Bucktails, a Union County unit, experience a service that the soldiers would have participated in during the conflict, join us for this moving experience, bring a chair, VFW |
| 10:00 am |
Downtown festival grounds open |
| 10 am – 2 pm |
Phylleri Ball, dying fiber with a dye kitchen, Gutelius House |
| All Day events |
Downtown Festival Grounds |
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Buggy Rides on Market Street |
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Open House at the Gutelius House and Mifflinburg Buggy Museum |
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Demonstrations – black smith, tin smith, gun making, needlework, wheel wrighting, chair caning, spinning, weaving, carpentry, broom making, laundry |
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Kellyites 4H - offering activities for children |
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Good Times 4H - offering activities for children |
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VFW Fairgrounds |
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Come meet the reenactors in the Union, Confederate and Civilian camps – talk with a refugee, chat with a schoolmarm, find out what the Sanitary Commission did for the soldiers. |
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Stroll through Sutler Row (a Civil War shopping center), buy a book or some candy |
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Watch a demonstration of cooking and learn about the flags of the Confederacy with Barry and Fay Stocker |
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Have your photograph taken by John Bernaski, wet plate photographer |
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Both Locations |
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Authors’ Tents – meet various authors, Richard Sauers, Mike Sanders, Guy Graybill, Richard Wagner, Stan Zellers, Jerry Wemple, Sonya Anderson, Roxy Trutt and Kate Shade. Author’s times vary. |
| 11:30 am – 1pm |
Wander through the camps to meet Civil War Heroes and civilians, VFW |
| 12:00 pm – 3 pm |
Bean soup served in Federal Artillery Camp, VFW |
| 12:30 pm |
Civil War Magic Show, Pvt. Ryan Kane, VFW |
| 12:30 pm |
Civil War Hair Braiding, Miss Angelica Esquivel, VFW |
| 1:30 pm |
[Fictitious] Battle of Chamber’s Ridge |
| 3:00 pm |
Camps closed to the public |
| 4:00 pm |
Downtown Festival grounds close |
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