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Welcome to the ETHAN ALLEN COLONIAL FAIR Explore 18th Century Life in a Military Camp Brought to you by the 25th Massachusetts Regiment and the Living History Association

Saturday and Sunday

6 a.m. - Reveille 10 a.m. & 4 p.m. – Camps open to public 11 a.m. – Camp tour 12:30 p.m. – Young Patriots Call to Arms 1:30 p.m. – Troops muster & safety inspection

2:00 p.m. – Battle reenactment 5:00 p.m. – Camps close to public

Sunday

10:30 a.m. — Ecumenical Serivces No camp tour on Sunday

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Oakley Frost and Sage City Six are Entertainment Headliners The headline entertainment on Saturday is Oakley Frost and the Sage City Six. This is a very popular local group with popular music of all kinds and all eras. They begin at 10:30 a.m. The headline entertainment on Sunday is the Three of Cups, a vivacious female vocal group based in Springfield, Masssachusetts, that keeps alive a legacy of three hundred years of rousing revelry and song. They present a rich, entrancing blend of voice, fiddle, and guitar and have a rich repertoire of colonial music. They are equally at ease performing cheerful English drinking songs, bittersweet Irish ballads, or uplifting American gospel. Their audience

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rapport is warm, witty and scintillating. From the pulpit to the pub, Three of Cups will rouse a crowd and raise spirits through song. Deborah and Ann-Marie have been singing together since 1987. They bring their camaraderie, harmonious voices and love of storytelling to New England coffeehouses, lecture halls and concert stages. In addition to the featured performers on each day, there will be “surprise” visitors, including the Town Crier, a bagpiper and a Fife and Drum Corps to play, sing, tell stories and entertain everyone.

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Catamount Tavern Stephen Fay migrated to Bennington from Hardwick, Massachusetts, and built the Green Mountain Inn during the year of 1766. Stephen was a prominent and influential citizen and showed a great capacity for business. Stephen Fay was a leading spirit and exercised a powerful influence in the long contest with New York and also during the period of the Revolutionar y War. He was often referred to as “Landlord Fay.” His Inn quickly became the meeting

place of those who opposed the intrusion of New York State on the New Hampshire Grants. A Catamount (rare mountain lion) was slain and stuffed by a farmer nearby. Several rowdy patrons of the Inn raised the stuffed carcas high on the Green Mountain Inn sign, facing it west toward New York, in defiance of any who would lintrde. The Tavern was soon home to Ethan Allen, where he planned and directed, along with his Green Mountain Boys, the successful expedition to Fort Ticonderoga.

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The Bennington settlers asked Allen to defend their rights in the Albany courts. Governor Tryon of New York state soon put out an award of 50 pounds for the capture of Allen and any of his captains of the “Bennington Mob.” Several of the united Councils of Safety met at the Tavern discussing battle strategies. Over the mantel in the council chamber were carved the words “Council Room.” A council of war was held at the Catamount Tavern by General John W. Stark on August 13, 1777, when plans were made to go out and meet the Hessians. This was one of the most critical battles in the Revolutionary War. Burgoyne was headed for the stores in Bennington in order to replenish his troops with food stuffs and other amenities as well as ammunition. His plan was then to go on to Saratoga after a brief respite. The battle raged and by the second engagement, the British cannon was taken

as well as several hundred prisioners. They were bound two by two and taken to the First Church. As they passed by the Catamount Tavern, Landlord Fay, who lost his son, John on August 16, in the Battle of Bennington, stepped out and greeted the prisoners with a gracious bow, and told them that their dinner, which Colonel Baum, now defeated, had ordered by messenger for them the day before, was ready. The meals were prepared and the prisoners were served at the Dewey House, which is now known as the Walloomsac Inn. John Fay served with the second Bennington company of militia, which later became part of Colonel Samuel Herrick’s Vermont Regiment of state militia. He is buried at the Old First Church Cemetery. The Catamount Tavern burned down in 1871 and was never rebuilt.

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Driving Tour: Battle of Bennington Start at the Monument (site of the Storehouse). From the statue of Seth Warner, drive south down Monument Avenue 0.2 miles to Catamount Tavern (General Stark’s headquarters). Leave Catamount Tavern, heading south on Monument Avenue, 0.1 miles to the stop sign at Route 9. Across the intersection on the left is where Ethan Allen lived from 1769 to 1775. Turn right onto Route 9 and proceed past Colgate Park on your 2.5 miles (2.8 miles cumulatively), to a marker where Dimick Tavern stood (Stark’s camp August 9-13, 1777). Leave Dimick Tavern, turning north onto Dermody Road, proceed 0.9 miles (4.1 miles) to the stop sign. Turn left on Walloomsac Road. Continue for 0.5 miles (3.9) to Whipstock Road. Turn right. Continue 1.2 miles (5.4) to the corner of Airport Road where a sign on the northwest corner marks the location of Harmon’s Tavern (Where General Stark had breakfast on August 14th).

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Leave Harmon’s Tavern, driving south on Vail Road 0.3 miles (5.7), turn left onto Austin Hill Road. Continue 0.8 miles (6.5) to the end. Turn left onto Murphy Road. Continue north on Murphy Road 0.3 miles (6.8) to a marker at the Breakenridge Farm (Birthplace of Vermont). Leave the Breakenridge Farm, continuing on Murphy Road another 0.2 miles (7.0), just around a sharp right hand turn to a marker on your left, locating the Warner Farmstead. Leave the Warner Farmstead, continuing on Murphy Road over the Henry Covered Bridge 0.2 miles (7.2) to Harrington Road. Turn left. Continue 1.2 miles (8.4) to a large stone on the hillside to the east, marking General Stark’s Encampment on August 14-16,1777. Leave the Encampment and continue northward on Harrington Road, 0.8 miles (9.2) to a road. Turn left onto that road. Continue 0.2 miles (9.4) to a marker on the right, where General Baum died at a farmhouse near this marker. (The Green Mountain Boys camped at Harwood Hill on August 15, 1777.)

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Vermont Confectionery

Activities Tent

Battle Site

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CATAMOUNT TAVERN

Vendors and Entertainment

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Encampment

Hubbell House

10:30 a.m. — Ecumenical Serivces No camp tour on Sunday

Sunday

6 a.m. - Reveille 10 a.m. & 4 p.m. – Camps open to public 11 a.m. – Camp tour 12:30 p.m. – Young Patriots Call to Arms 1:30 p.m. – Troops muster & safety inspection 2:00 p.m. – Battle reenactment 5:00 p.m. – Camps close to public

Saturday and Sunday

Vendors and Family Activities • June Capron, owner of SCENT CHIPS Mount Holly, Vermont

• T & S Concessions, offering KETTLE CORN Poestenkill, New York

• Muriel Rice, owner of ENGRAVED SLATE PICTURES Bennington, Vermont

• Crazy Russian Girls Bakery BAKED GOODS Bennington, Vermont

• Vermont Venture, offering HAND POURED SOY CANDLES West Halifax, Vermont • Terre Verde, offering MASSAGE & FRAGRANCE SOY CANDLES Bennington, Vermont

• Manchester Historical Society HISTORY BOOTH Manchester, VT • Southshire Partnerships for a Healthy Community INFORMATION BOOTH WITH BALLOONS Bennington, Vermont • Jeanne Davis BEEKEEPING Bennington, Vermont

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Vendors and Family Activities • Two guided tours of the Battle Encampment both days, and authentic battle at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. • Different toys and games that were popular with colonial children such as: rolling hoops, jacks, marbles, whirli-gigs, Jacob’s ladder, hoops, tops, and more will be demonstrated and you can give them a try! • Potato sack races in the field and the game of Graces. • Children will have the opportunity to wear clothing fashioned from the 1700s and have their photos taken. • Crafts that were made long ago such as tinsmithing, yarn dolls, carding wool and more will be offered. • Square dancing (the Virginia Reel). • Storytelling from long ago, which ends with flint-making and a military drill. • Attend a “Colonial School” when the

bell rings. Behave yourself or you will end up in the corner wearing a dunce hat! • Learn about “Beekeeping Then and Now” by Jeanne Davis. Learn how bees came to be in North America; what early beekeeping looked like and how honey was harvested; the changes that occurred to change beekeeping in the mid 1800s. The hives we keep today are very similar to the changes made then. The presentation includes an observation hive with live bees, samples of comb, frames and hive parts, a model of an antique hive and samples of honey to taste and/or buy. Famous Colonial characters will visit the event, including Mr. John Stark in attendance as represented by author Karl Crannell. Phyllis Chapman will share her knowledge regarding healthcare in the 1700s.

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Walloomsac Inn The Dewey House, often called the Dewey Tavern and now known as the Walloomsac Inn, was built c. 1764 by Captain Elijah Dewey and his father, Rev. Jedediah Dewey, pastor of the Old First Church, just across the road. The home was built large in order to accommodate paying guests who would then join the family at the dinner table. By the mid 1770s, it was licensed to sell “spiritous liquors.” The tavern attracted many Revolutionary War heroes the likes of Gen. Ethan Allen, General John Stark and Col. Seth Warner. The woodshed behind the Inn housed several hundred British soldiers during the Battle of Bennington. It is said they tried to set fire to the shed in order to escape. The Dewey House and the Catamount Tavern traded off sessions of the newly � ��

formed Vermont Legislature. After a succession of several owners, Walter Berry purchased the Inn in 1991 and changed the name to Walloomsac Inn. Berry ran the inn as an essential center during the stagecoach heyday. Travelers would stop at the Inn for lunch and be on their way. The Walloomsac has been serving guests as a Bed and Breakfast establishment until perhaps the past 15 or 16 years. They were forced to stop due to the challenge of meeting state codes. Old Bennington zoning now forbids commercial use in the area. The zoning would have to change in order for it to become an inn again. It would seem, to this writer, that it would behoove the Town Fathers to rethink their stand regarding this stately structure so steeped

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in the history of the founding of our country. I can name many historic towns in New England and New York that that find a way

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to allow their precious landmark buildings to continue to function.

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