Harrison House Hosts Timeline for Its Bicentennial

We returned to the Harrison House again following our first living history program there back in May. The staff had been interested in having a historical timeline event to help celebrate the 200th birthday of the house, built in 1824, and we were happy to oblige by calling upon some of our contacts to join us. The grounds were transformed into a display of 18th-20th Century living history stations and we enjoyed a steady stream of visitors throughout the day. We thank the staff, Erich and Sam, and the Roseland Historical Society, for taking good care of the reenactors by providing lunch and drinks. We interacted with people consistently, so there was relatively little downtime--a good thing, for sure, as this means there is interest and resonance with the public. We had the 35th and 23rd Regiments of Foot representing the Revolutionary War; Jack Sherry as Dr. Benjamin Franklin (complete with kite); Celeste Sherry doing 1820s wool spinning; Madison representing the 1830s; the 6th New Hampshire Regiment of the US Civil War; the 71st New York Volunteers of the Spanish-American War; our associate organization, the Italian Front Project, representing the Granatieri di Sardegna and Brigata Salerno in World War One; the Royal Flying Corps in World War One; the Tomsk Regiment in the Russian Civil War; Mick Burgess as his Orange lordship; and the Italian Divisione Casale in World War Two.