Cook Forest State Park will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War.

Cook Forest State Park and the Sawmill Center for the Arts will host a series of living history events depicting life during the French & Indian War on June 13 and 14, 2009. Full Schedule Details Here!   Download 2009 Encampment Flyer PDF (585k) Photos from the 2008 Encampment

Highlights of this full two-day encampment include children’s programs, woodland natives, cannon and musket firing demonstrations, sutler camp, council and trading events, live tactical engagements, nationally renowned living historians, and French & Indian War era painters.

Take a walk back in time at the Sawmill  Center for the Arts to view British, Colonial, French, and American Indian re-enactors as they portray lifestyles of the 18th century.

Artists

• Bill Robertson-18th century fiction books
• Janet Hostetter-Native American beedwork & accoutrements
• Larry Smail-18th century painter
• Michael Flaherty-18th century stoneware

Demonstrators

• Naeskahoni Town - Butch Laney, 18th century survival skills educator
• Barb Bockwrath - 18th century women's clothing
• Butch Laney - primitive skills educator
• Dennis Murray - 18th century blacksmith & liar errr... story teller
• Geoffrey Domowicz - 18th century cooking
• Jack Mathay - 18th century surgeon
• Jay & Terry Seltzer - period wool making (live sheep)
• Jim Ruth - artillery
• Jim Smith - Windsor chair fabrication
• Mike Homza - French Perspectives on the French & Indian War
• Mike Santiago - flint knapping
• Paul Stillman - Nasty Ned the Frontiersmen, Ben Franklin, powderhorn, quill pen, turkey wingbone call fabrication, kids games

Sutlers

• Greene Leather & Fur - artisans, seamstress, leather carving, tooling demo
• Sonshine Farm - 18th Century Wool Making Demo (live sheep)
• Amanda Lipps - Common Ground Farm - 18th century red & earthenware pottery
• Vagabond Armoury - muskets, knives, swords
• Land Pirates Trading Company
• Common Ground Farm - red & earthenware pottery
• Land Pirate Trading Co. - wooden tools & accoutrements
• Loyalhanna Muzzleloaders - homespun clothing & muskets
• McConnell Forge - blacksmithing
• Naeskahoni Town - primitive skills

Units

• 42nd Highland Regiment-Campbell's Company of Light Infantry
• Compagnie LeBeouf Compagnie Dumas
• French Creek LHA/Band of Natives
• Marines de Contrecoeur
• Pennsylvania Company of Rogers Rangers
• Raestown Company of Rangers & Spies
• Rangers of the Ohio Company
• Spikeman's Rangers
• The Royal Regiment of Artillery

Donors

• Cook Forest Online
• Cook Riverside Cabins
• MacBeths Cabins
• Sawmill Center for the Arts
• Farmers Inn
• Cook Forest Vacation Bureau
• Cook Forest Top Hill Cabins
• Deer Meadows Campground
• Black Bear Cabins
• Pale Whale Canoe Fleet
• McConnell Forge
• Cybercoins.net
• Steel City Cigar Company of Pittsburgh
• Sawmill Restaurant