Category: Fort at #4
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Interpreting at The Fort at No 4
Friday was my first day of interpreting at The Fort at No 4. Volunteering can be just about anything helpful to The Fort, interpreting means attempting to bring The Fort back to life. The first thing is that you are supposed to be wearing garb. I don’t have good garb. I’m embarrassed, but it is…
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Tuesday Tunes
The Fort at No 4 held the annual Rendezvous last weekend. Ally had a blast. She came back with new moccasins that she is raving about. As an interpreter for the Fort, she baked bread in the beehive oven, then sold it to the encampment, this is very much in period. That went over so…
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Let There Be Light
Today is the start of a near week-long event at The Fort at No 4. I believe it is called, “The Rendezvous.” It is an 18th century reenactment event. Ally will be there the entire time, she fired the bake oven last night to get it ready to use today. This is one of those…
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Opening Day
This weekend is opening weekend at the Fort at No 4. This is the first time The Fort has been open to the general public this year. I believe this is the first opening weekend I’ve attended. It was fun, it was outstanding, it was hard work. The first time I arrived, it felt like…
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How Many Mallets Do I Need?
These things round between $40 and $90. They weigh about a pound. This is in Rock Maple. I have one in some exotic wood I purchased years ago. Yesterday I started my third. Why three? Well, it is much more likely that I will have more than three. This simple wood turning is a great…
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Fort at #4 plus NPCs
The Fort is getting ready for the 2025 season. Allyson is up there for the woman’s weekend. She is incredibly excited. Why? Because this will be the first event she has gone to in years when she isn’t presenting/teaching. Her goal? To learn how to make a pie crust. Like many events, there is an…
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Preppers and The Zombie Apocalypse
I grew up a prepper. Most of the people I knew were preppers. The difference was that it was normal. My parents were born at the tail of the great depression. They lived through WWII as children and suffered the rationing that took place in the US. My grandparents planted and tended a garden every…
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Extant, Reproduction, Good Enough
Doing work at the Fort is wonderful. It is also an exercise in interpreting what you are seeing vs what you expect to see. When you look at the different items in the Fort, it is often surprising to find that they are “modern” items. We laugh when people pick up the wooden cup because…
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Finding A Teacher
A few weeks ago, I went up to the Fort at #4 to use their warping board. I have a warping board, I just do not know where it is. I could make a warping board, I didn’t want to spend the time to do so. On the way up, I stopped to pick up…
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Yes, I did go to the Fort this weekend!
I’ll write more about my experience at the Fort later, but I leave you with a video of some bread making I did, put together by my friend Garrett. He’s filmed me at ren faires before, but I made a specific invite for him to come this weekend and see me doing something new. He…