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Muster on the Wabash 2009

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1812 Re-Enactors had a beautiful weekend in Vincennes, Indiana at Fort Kox II. In 1811 Gov. William Henry Harrison used this area as a staging ground for the Battle of Tippecanoe. The site runs along the Wabash River, where this past weekend Indians attacked civilians and military troops alike. Photos now loaded! Additional photos by Frank Doughman posted on the Guest Gallery.

Muster at Prophetstown 1812

Hearty Souls camped at Phrophetstown in Battleground, Indiana. Visitors were able to view native encampments as well as militia, mounted rangers, military and civilians from the time when Prophetstown was a large village. The Shawnee brothers, Tenskwautawaw (Tens-Kwau-Ta-Waw) and Tecumseh left the Ohio Shawnee and settled at Prophetstown in the spring of 1808.The village was sacked by United States forces on November the 7th, 1811 and abandoned in 1812. Photos by Frank Doughman on The Guest Gallery

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Historic Locust Grove hosts Annual Market Fair

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Butler’s Rangers fire across the battlefield during the tactical battle Sunday afternoon at Historic Locust Grove in Louisville, KY. All photos now loaded!

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March  4-7 Braintanning at Fort Harrod State Park,
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The 147th Anniversary of the
 Battle of Perryville

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Visitors Celebrate Daniel Boone 275th Birthday despite cold and rainy conditions at Fort Boonesborough

Fort Boonesborough’s Bill Farmer thanks Guest Speaker/Author Meredith Mason Brown after he spoke on Saturday. Brown who has published the latest book on Boone spoke along with author Neal O. Hammon and interpreters Scott New and Michael Fields. Photos now available on Fort Boonesborough’s Site and Newsreels coming soon to this site.

Troops met in the Fight for Peter’s Hill on Saturday and Sunday Oct 3-4, at Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. Perryville is one of the most pristine battlefields left in the nation. Unlike many preserved battlefields in modern cities - the view from the battlefield at Perryville is little changed from what it was in 1862.  Additional Photos Now Loaded!

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The Contemporary Longrifle Association

held it’s annual meeting and show in Lexington Kentucky on August 15 & 16th.  Contemporary artists model their work after the craftsmen of an earlier era. On hand at this world renowned show were both antique and contemporary pieces  - from guns, rifles, pistols and powder horns to paintings and other works of art. Photos Now Loaded!

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Fort
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The inhabitants of Daniel Boone’s Fort Boonesborough ably defended their homes against Indian attack on Sunday, September 27th. But they had less luck against the weather on Friday night and Saturday due to torrential rains. Although the battle re-enactments had to be canceled on Saturday,  visitors still came to the fort and re-enactors laughed their way through muddy camps, wet clothing and miserable conditions.  Two sets of photos now loaded!

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The
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 was the site of an Indian ambush in 1782 that forever changed the lives of the settlers in Kentucky. Re-Enactors come to these hallowed grounds to honor those that fought here. All Photos now loaded! - with additional photos on The Guest Gallery and at www.battleofbluelicks.org

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Highlights from The Kentucky Historical Society about Abraham Lincoln

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Mme. Mentelle's School

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Financial difficulties and mental instability characterized the later years of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and are what we most remember about her. But it is her formative qualities that prove most instructive. Her intelligence,  independence, and worldliness were precisely the qualities that attracted her  future spouse, Abraham Lincoln, and helped to make their partnership so  complementary.

As the nation celebrates the Lincoln Bicentennial - read some lesser known facts about Kentucky’s Lincoln connections.

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Early on, Robert Smith Todd of Lexington recognized the precocious intelligence of his daughter Mary, and he furnished her a superior education  that was extremely rare for women of her day. At a time when most young women of her social class ended their formal education after four or five years, Mary's lasted nine years. The first five she spent at Shelby Female Academy, followed by four more at a boarding school run by Augustas Waldemare Mentelle and his wife, Charlotte Victorie Leclere Mentelle, both natives of Paris and emigres who  had fled the revolution in France in 1792. By the late 1790s, the Mentelles had made their way to Lexington, where in 1805 they opened their "very academic and very French" school on five acres neighboring Henry Clay's Ashland estate, donated to them by Mary's great aunt Mary Todd Russell Wickcliffe.

Through Mme. Mentelle's rigorous academic training, Mary excelled "in every  branch of good education." Moreover, Mentelle became for Mary a living example  of female intelligence and independence. A vivid, excitable storyteller who deplored "girlish frivolities," Mentelle played the fiddle and was known to take  vigorous walks, reading and talking to herself along the way. If Lexingtonians  viewed the Mentelles as eccentrics, Mary found in their example an antidote to the sedentary life imposed upon her female relatives and peers. Living with the Mentelles, Mary gained a lifelong fluency in French, a love of reading and learning, and knowledge of the world that fueled her desire to flee  Lexington.

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