2018 Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough
Join us at the Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough on October 26-28, 2018 at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Richmond, Kentucky. The event is open to all Ladies And Gentlemen. Come test your skills as you compete for Prizes and Honor, or just enjoy an 18th century weekend. Plans for the Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough currently include rifle shoot, woods walk, smoothbore match, Seneca run, hawk and knife, archery, flint and steel and tavern games. Prizes and blanket shoots. Events will be ongoing throughout the weekend. Merchants and Traders are welcome.
Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough
The Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough is not a juried event however, all clothing, camps, and accouterments must be in the time frame of mid ro late 18th century. No western Rocky Mountain fur trade era is acceptable; this is an eastern and earlier time- period reenactment. For the shooting commpetitions, only full stock longrifles and smoothbores are permitted. No modern hawken sryle, half srock ormodern sights.
Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough, like other events at the fort, are sponsored by The Fort Boonesborough Foundation. The Foundation is made up of a group of dedicated individuals who volunteer their time to sustain, foster, and promote quality programming at Fort Boonesborough State Park and Boone’s Station Historic Site.
About Fort Boonesborough
Richard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company in 1775, chose Daniel Boone to head a party of 31 axe men to clear a path through the Cumberland Gap that would run from Long Island of the Holston River, Tennessee, to Otter Creek of the Kentucky River. Blazing the trail presented extraordinary difficulties – the route through the wilderness was a hunter’s trace that was too narrow for a wagon. The task was to combine many trails into one continuous route by clearing underbrush and overhanging foliage. When Daniel Boone and his men reached the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775, they quickly moved to establish Kentucky?s second settlement–the site still known as Fort Boonesborough.
Location
Fort Boonesborough State Park
4375 Boonesborough Rd.
Richmond, Ky. 40475
For more information about Rifle Frolic and Frontier Skills at Fort Boonesborough, contact Phone 859-527-3131 ext 216 or email alec.forman@gmail.com or ahenry@wittenberg.edu.
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