All attendees will receive encampment map listing events and locations. Activities held rain or shine. Parking information.
Saturday
9 – 5 Camp Open to Public and Encampment Scavenger Hunt**
9:30 am Women’s Contributions to the War Effort*
10 am Cannon Demonstration & Firing
10:30 – 11:30 am Company Drill
11 am – 3 pm American Girl Addy Walker Scavenger Hunt**
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Sing along with Shades of Gray Camp Band*
12 – 4 pm First Baptist Church Tours
12:30 Harriet Beecher Stowe speaks at the Baptist Church
1 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing
1 – 4 pm Tea at the First Baptist Church
2 pm Encampment Dedication & Governor’s Citation followed by singing of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by the FSU Choir*
3 pm Ladies’ Fashion Show*
4 pm Dress Parade and Troop Review with President Lincoln
4:30 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing
7:30 – 10:30 pm Civil War Dance at Village Hall
Book Signing at the FHC Tent
1:30 – 2:30 Pat Lavin – My Dear Esty: Letters from Framingham’s Civil War Soldiers
2:30 – 3:30 Fred Wallace – Framingham’s Civil War Hero: The Life of General George H. Gordon
3:30 – 4:30 Tom Ellis – Framingham’s Civil War Service: A History Roster
Sunday
9 – 3 Camp Open to public and Encampment Scavenger Hunt**
9:30 am Church Service at Edgell Grove Cemetery Chapel
10 am Gravesite Service for General George H. Gordon
11 am -3 pm American Girl Addy Walker Scavenger Hunt**
11:15 – 12:15 Company Drill
12:15 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing
12:30 – 1:30 pm Sing along with Shades of Gray Camp Band*
1:30 pm Cannon Demonstration & Firing
2:15 pm Dress Parade and Troop Review with President Lincoln
3 pm Cannon Fire Closes the Encampment
Book Signing at FHC Tent
12:00 – 1:00 pm Tom Ellis – Framingham’s Civil War Service: A History Roster
1:00 – 2:00 pm Fred Wallace – Framingham’s Civil War Hero: The Life of General George H. Gordon
2:00 – 3:00 pm Pat Lavin – My Dear Esty: Letters from Framingham’s Civil War Soldiers
*Activities will take place at the main tent at the center of the Common
** Pick up scavenger hunt maps at FHC Tent on the Common
Food vendors, sutlers, Topographical Engineers, tinsmith, blacksmith, wool spinner, telegraph operator, Naval Landing party, President Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, General George H. Gordon, Julia Ward Howe and more included in encampment.