STATEHOUSE CALENDAR

American Revolutionary War Living History Day

September 28, 2015

Ohio Statehouse Lawn, 1 Capitol Square; downtown Columbus

Contact: Chris Matheney at (614) 728/2696 or cmatheney@csrab.state.oh.us

REGISTRATION REQUIRED  

Free!

This program, which is geared toward 4-5 grades, incorporates history, art, science, writing, math, economics, music and medicine of the 1770’s, and is centered around the preparations for the Siege of Yorktown-that final crucial battle to defeat the British at the end of the American Revolution.

Students will enlist in the Continental Army of 1777, study artillery trajectories, print a Continental Congress Broadside on a printing press, taste camp food, practice military drill, play period camp instruments, lay out the ground work of the fort using replica 1770 surveying equipment, and visit with General George Washington as he prepares his military strategy for the battle of Yorktown.