A Trip Back in Time.
Enjoy living history at the annual Fort Vancouver Campfire and Candlelight event on September 8, 2012 from 4 pm to 10 pm. A full schedule of events are planned, with free admission to both Pearson Air Museum and Fort Vancouver.
“Campfires and Candlelight is Fort Vancouver’s largest costumed re-enactment, only possible with the help of more than 150 costumed interpreters from the park’s volunteer team, the park’s youth volunteer team, and multiple community partners. This year, the event includes signature components like cannon firings, Oregon Trail families, and blacksmiths, bakers, and carpenters hard at work, in addition to an extensive Timeline of History to showcase military history at Vancouver Barracks over time.
Campfires and Candlelight begins at Pearson Air Museum, which focuses on pre-World War II aircraft and features a dramatic lighting scheme to complement the candlelight ambience at the fort.
In the field between air museum and the fort, visitors stroll back in time along the park’s Spruce Mill Trail, experiencing an evening of U.S. Army camps from multiple eras, Oregon Trail immigrants, and the residents of Fort Vancouver’s Village. During dusk hours, teamsters kick up dust with a plowing demonstration of the horses and technology used by Hudson’s Bay Company farmers and American immigrants in the 1840s.”
For more information about this free event, visit Fort Vancouver Campfires and Candlelight online or call 360-816-6247.
