© 2011 AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WEB SITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Waubonsee Community College Students
CYNTHIA PIROK
BRIAN PRUSKO
DAVE FENZEL
TIM MESCHER
Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students (ages 7-17), under 7 free.
Two-day passes are $12 for adults, $8 for students.
Food available for purchase from The Comfort Zone.
Call Mary Clark Ormond at 630-859-3292 for more information
Click here for a map and directions
Click here for a list of our amazing sponsors!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
11:00am - Gates Open
Encampment, daily life,
children’s activities,
Tanner House open
12 noon - Music
12:30pm - For children:
Induction into the Union
Army/troop inspection
1:00pm - Aurora Characters
Dr. Abner Hard, Nurse Mary Athow
1:30pm - Field Hospital Demonstration:
Extracting bullets and amputating limbs on the battlefield - “Doc” Trevor Steinbach
2:00pm - Band concert
33rd Illinois
Regimental Band
(reenactors)
3:00pm - Band concert continues
4:00pm - Aurora Characters
Hard & Athow
7:00pm - Dramatic sketch
"An Evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln" as they prepare for the theater.
Max and Donna Daniels
8:00pm - Music
9:00pm - Close
All Day Saturday
Visit with members of the 36th Illinois Volunteer Regiment “The Fox River
Regiment”
Candle making by Deanna Bazan
Sunday, July 3, 2011
11:00am - Gates Open
Encampment, daily life,
children’s activities,
Tanner House open
12 noon - Underground Railroad in Aurora + Aurora Character:
Cal Boger, a slave, finds a new life in Aurora.
1:00pm - Monologue by Phil Van Lear
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
2:00pm - Music of the 1860s
Dona Benkert and friends from Warrenville Folklore Center
3:00pm - Dramatic multi-media reading:
Letters of the Civil War - Rebecca Tulloch & Phil Lauricella
4:00pm - Music
5:00pm - Close
Ongoing all weekend
17th Corps Field Hospital
Rob Hauff & his museum of Civil War weapons & artillery
Windy City Wizard “Swin D. Lure,” master magician
Blacksmithing by Will Slagel
Quilting by Gwyneth Johnsen
Spinning Demonstrations by Natasha Lehrer