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American Independence Festival

July 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

American Independence Festival July 116, 10 am tp 4 pm
32nd American Independence Festival Poster. Event takes Place Saturday, July 16 10am-6 pm
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Date: Saturday, July 16
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Location: American Independence Museum Grounds
Cost:
Adult: $10
Child (ages 4-18): $4
Children under 4: FREE
Veteran, Active or Retired Military: FREE
Museum Members: FREE

2022 Festival

Join us Saturday, July 16 for festivities on museum grounds. Make sure to check back in here as we update the festival program with confirmed presenters and activities. We invite you to engage with us as we celebrate, commemorate, and learn.

Festival Program Includes:

Reenactors dressed in uniforms belonging to the King's Own Fourth Regiment of the Foot

Military Demonstrations

Reenactor dressed as Jack Staines (a middle-aged black man with short white hair and short facial hair wearing a grey buttoned up shirt with white collar under a brown cloth jacket)

First Person Reenactors

A reenactor from the Acton Minutemen challenges a child to a game of checkers. The outcome is yet to be determined.

Military Camp Life

An adult dressed in 18th century clothing sits by an open camp fire and bakes flatbreads using the embers, a ring of children watch

Revolutionary Foodways

A child watches as a trained artisan decorates an unfired clay bowl using a specially cut sponge as a stamp

Artisan Village

A family of four use paint to decorate rocks of the liberty herb garden

Family Saturdays

Two men in Revolutionary Era clothing sit and drink a beer

Beer Garden

Details

Date:
July 16, 2022
Time:
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Venue

Ladd-Gilman House
1 Governors Ln
Exeter, NH 03833 United States
Phone
(603) 772-2622

Organizer

Emma Stratton
Email
director@independencemuseum.org
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