Via Kelly Schott. Breaking my sabbatical from Facebook to bring you this: Bents Old Fort Historical Association Fur Trade Symposium September23 – 26, 2015 Living History Program Concurrent with the symposium, Bent’s Old Fort NHS will host a living history program open to both the general public as well as symposium participants. Starting on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 23rd a party of hunter-trappers from the Southern Rocky Mountains will arrive at Bent’s Fort. Symposium attendees, participants and the general public will then not only be able to learn about the Southern Fur trade from distinguished historians’ formal presentations but will be able to experience what life was like in 1842 at Fort William (Bent’s Fort). Everyone will have the opportunity to observe, study and interact with some 100 experienced Living Historians, historic reenactors and demonstrators who will assume the prevalent roles of the fort employees and visitors who would have been found at there during its heyday. Traders, trappers and hunters, blacksmiths and carpenters, domestics and laborers, and Santa Fé Trail travelers will take their place at Bent’s Fort for the duration of the Symposium. These men, women, and children will reveal through their activities, conversations and demonstrations what life might have been like a hundred and seventy-five years ago at the dominant fur trading post on the Southern Plains. The 19th-century Bent’s Fort was called “a magnet for the adventurous, scholarly, and the curious. Explorers, travelers, and journalists stopped here to observe the varied commerce and diverse cultures …” During the Symposium, participants and the public alike can also stop at Bent’s Fort to observe and experience the commerce and culture of a time long past. Come and immerse yourself in a way of life that has long since disappeared! Note; Participation as a living history interpreter is by invitation only. If you are interested in participating in the living history program requirements may be found here: 2015fts.org/documents/Living%20History%20Criteria%20Final.pdf
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:02:22 +0000
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