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Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War. Highlights of this full two-day encampment include woodland natives, cannon and musket firing, cooking, primitive skills, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, pottery, children’s games, sutler camp, renowned living historians, French & Indian War Era artisans, and live tactical engagements. Every battle is different! Take a walk back in time along the Black Bear Trail by the Sawmill Center for the Arts during open camp hours to view British, Colonial, French, and Native American re-enactors as they portray lifestyles of the 18th century. Saturday, June 10 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Event Open 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. – Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray: story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Native Cooking Demonstration – by Elizabeth Huxford-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the Native Camp in the main encampment site 10:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – French & Indian War Era Art & Demonstrators – meet with distinguished artists, authors, artisans, and demonstrators in the Old Sawmill Classroom 10:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Sutler Row Demonstrators – Want to meet with skilled artisans to make a trade or purchase? Looking to get into the hobby and need clothing & accouterments? Meet tinsmiths, cordwainers, leather workers, cooks, gunsmiths, clothiers, weapons outfitters, and gourd makers in the long field on your right as you come into the main Sawmill entrance. 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Cannon & Musket Firing Demonstration – by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the Old Sawmill Classroom 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – ‘Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin: 1732-1762’ by Paul Stillman, noted living historian from Historically Speaking, at the Sawmill Theater (free, but donations towards the event gladly accepted) 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – 18th Century Children’s Games – by the Noel family-Compagnie LeBoeuf, along Black Bear Trail at the main encampment site 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Murph’s Blacksmithing Demonstration – by Dennis Murray, story-teller, blacksmith & Clarion County’s #1 liar, across from Sawmill Craft Market 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Cannon Demo & Mad Minute Competition — by the camp Corps of Artillery, located in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Peril in the Forest – tactical engagement in the woods along Black Bear Trail across from the old Sawmill Classroom Photo by Darren Troese.https://www.cookforest.org/events/. Sat, June, 10th, 9 AM Cook Forest State Park Office, 100 PA-36 Cooksburg, PA