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River Raisin International Fife & Drum Muster June 20 & 21, 2008 Monroe, Michigan Featuring Corps from the Midwest and Canada This year's featured Corps will be the Colonial
Williamsburg Fife and Drum
The Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps will perform in Loranger Square Downtown Monroe at 7pm on Friday June 20, 2008. Joining them will be the 1st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps. This will be a site to behold in Historic Downtown Monroe! On Saturday, 10 Fife and Drum
Corps units will be present at the Muster ------------------------------------------
Navarre-Anderson Trading Post April 26, 2008 Experience the 1790's fur trade in person; Listen in as preparations are made for a fur trade expedition Visit with Native Americans as they come to trade Help scrape deerskins Find out if you have what it takes to
be a voyageur Enjoy the aroma of food cooked over a open woodfire Watch a musket firing demonstration Navarre-Anderson Trading Post At the North East Corner ------------------------------------------
Battlefield Commemoration 2008 January 26th, 2008 Held at the River Raisin Battlefield
Join the many participants from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Canada, along with Native Americans and residents of Monroe Michigan as we remember this bloody battle and massacre that took place on January 22nd and 23rd, 1813. The commemoration is held on the very ground along the River Raisin where hundreds of lives were lost protecting our freedom in the early years of the United States.
Schedule of events 9:00 AM registration at the Battlefield Visitor Center 10:00 AM Battle at the Corner of Elm and Dixie (pending approval) 11:00 AM Showing of the War of 1812 Battles of the Raisin 12:00 Noon Lunch for re-enactors 2:00 PM Commemoration Walk 2:30 PM Assembly for the Laying of the Wreath 3:00 PM Commemoration Ceremony and Laying of the Wreath Break 5:30 PM Re-Assemble at the Battlefield 6:00 PM Lighting the Luminaries of Memorial |
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