Heritage Days Weekend 2026 Schedule

Thank you to the Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau for creating this Heritage Days 2025 video!

 

Events during both days:

  • Historic Warrior Run Church and Cemetery is open with Rick Wolfe
  • Bring Native American artifacts for identification and appraisals to Kim Mattern in the barn
  • Colonial music
  • Interact with Martha Washington
  • 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment encampment
  • South Eastern Native Loyalist Confederacy encampment
  • Apple Butter Boil
  • Walk through Hower-Slote House and Barn to see demonstrators and the Society’s collection
  • Ground Penetrating Radar demonstration with Susquehanna University students
  • Children’s Colonial Games with the Seven Bridges Susquehanna Scouts Council
  • Walk through the Hower-Slote House to see demonstrations and the Society’s collection
  • Frontier Living Demonstrations

Saturday, October 3, 2026 

10am-4pm

At the Historic Warrior Run Church:

10:00 AM – 4 PM – Historic Warrior Run Church and Cemetery open with Rick Wolfe

At Fort Freeland/Hower-Slote Farm:

10:00 AM – Raising of the Flag with the 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment

10:00-4:00 PM – Strolling music by Susquehanna Travellers (Saturday ONLY)

10:00 AM – Pig crackling rendering with Ethan Whitmoyer and volunteers (Saturday ONLY)

10:00- 4:00 PM – Apple Butter Boil with June Moser and volunteers

10:30 AM – Herb Gardening talk Dawn Shawley

11:00 AM – Battle of Fort Freeland re-enactment with narrator Roger Swartz and Fort Freeland Co. of Independent Riflemen (Lynn Otto and 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment) and South Eastern Native Loyalist Confederacy(Turtle Swartz).

1:30 PM – Martha Washington talking about her life with George (Meg Geffken)

2:00 PM – Battle of Fort Freeland re-enactment with narrator Roger Swartz and Fort Freeland Co. of Independent Riflemen (Lynn Otto and 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment) and South Eastern Native Loyalist Confederacy (Turtle Swartz).

2:30PM – Capitulation of Fort Freeland presentation on the house porch, by Lynn Otto

3:00 PM – Herb Gardening with Dawn Shawley

3:30 PM – Apprenticeship Parade

4:00 PM – Lowering of the Flag with the 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM – All Day Events

    • Acquisitions Room – Charlotte Welliver
    • Apple Cider Pressing – David Barsky
    • Appliqued Wool – Kathleen Shafer
    • Blacksmithing – Lucian Spring (Apprentice) and Brad Gray (Master)
    • Bobbin Lace – Iva Kessler, Faith Lynn, and Ciara Spring (Apprentice)
    • Bread Baking – Tom Kashetta
    • Butter Making – Alicia Susan & Amanda Bridges
    • Candle Making – Laura Kessler Daniels
    • Chair Canning – Peter Gardner
    • Children’s games – Seven Bridges  Susquehanna Scouts Council
    • Clear Toy Candy – Wayne & Samantha Jacobs
    • Colonial Artist – David Clark
    • Coopering – Colin Moore (Apprentice), Asher Snoddy (Apprentice), Cayden Snyder (Journeymen), Levi Watson, and Rich Nornhold (Master)
    • Country Kitchen – Glenda Yost,  Leslie Hartline and Karrie Ravert
    • Fence Post Making – Ed Rovenolt
    • Flintlock Rifle Display – Steve Myers
    • Flintlock Rifle Knapping – Jacob Snyder
    • Fraktur Painting – Marie Burkhart
    • Genealogy Research –Tiadaghton Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, and Shikelimo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
    • Grandma’s Wash Day – Ilene Anderson
    • Gunsmithing – Roy Houseknecht
    • Hearth Cooking – Maris Kilgus (Journeyman) & Peggy Gelnett (Master)
    • Herb Gardening –  Dawn Shawley
    • Horseradish – Heidi & Sue Eppenbach
    • Ice Cream – Lisa and Brendan Mowery
    • Interpretive Center – Drake Owens
    • Johnny Appleseed – Randy Watts
    • Leather work – Jeff Myers
    • Local History – Mark Shifflet, Montgomery Historical Society
    • Loom Weaving – Irmgard Adams
    • Native American Encampment – Roger and Turtle Swartz
    • Open Hearth Fire Cooking – Brian Kocher & Nancy Lewis
    • Paper Making – Gavin Loss
    • Pennsylvania German Flax Culture – Alice Schrack, Zulia Schrack, Reuben Crist, Nicole Spring (All Apprentices) and Abigail Appleman Schrack (Master)
    • Pickled Cabbage & Sauerkraut – Ruth Ann Mowery
    • Pie Making –  Madison Rovenolt
    • Popcorn & Potato Candy – Nicole Basiago
    • Potter – Finnian Spring (Apprentice) and Robert Lee (Master)
    • Pump Making – Steve Moser
    • Quilting – Gail Moser
    • Rake Making – Kohen Susan (Apprentice) and Brent Susan
    • Revolutionary War Encampment – Lynn Otto
    • Rope making & rope bed stringing – Alex Karn, Chanan Susan, Sam Dunkleberger, Tucker Davis and Ryder Davis (All Apprentices)
    • Spinning – Rebekah Richardson
    • Tape Loom – Tirzah Susan (Apprentice)
    • Tin Smithing – Alexa Spaventa (Apprentice), and Scott Gelnett (Master)
    • Wheelwright – Bradd Mertz

    Demonstrations are subject to change.

Sunday, October 4, 2026  

11am-4pm

At the Historic Warrior Run Church:

 10:00 AM – Church Service with Paster Sean McNett

11:00 AM – 3 PM – Historic Warrior Run Church and Cemetery open

 

At Fort Freeland/Hower-Slote Farm:

11:30 AM – Raising of the Flag with the 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment

11:00-3:00 PM -Strolling music and instruction of the hammered dulcimer by Robert Gutheinz (Sunday ONLY)

11:00- 4:00 PM – Apple Butter Boil with June Moser and volunteers

12:00 PM – Herb Gardening with Dawn Shawley

1:00 PM – Battle of Fort Freeland re-enactment with narrator Roger Swartz and Fort Freeland Co. of Independent Riflemen (Lynn Otto and 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment) and South Eastern Native Loyalist Confederacy (Turtle Swartz).

1:30PM – Native Trades presentation at Native Camp teepee, by Lynn Otto

2:30 PM – Herb Gardening talk with Dawn Shawley

3:00 PM – Apprentice Auction with Weaver’s Auctioneering

3:30 PM – Apprenticeship Parade

4:00 PM – Lowering of the Flag with the 3rd Battalion Pennsylvania Regiment

11:00 AM to 4:00 PM – All Day Events

    • Acquisitions Room – Charlotte Welliver
    • Apple Cider Pressing – David Barsky
    • Appliqued Wool – Kathleen Shafer
    • Blacksmithing – Lucian Spring (Apprentice) and Brad Gray (Master)
    • Bobbin Lace – Iva Kessler, Faith Lynn, and Ciara Spring (Apprentice)
    • Bread Baking – Tom Kashetta
    • Butter Making – Alicia Susan & Amanda Bridges
    • Candle Making – Laura Kessler Daniels
    • Chair Canning – Peter Gardner
    • Children’s games – Seven Bridges  Susquehanna Scouts Council
    • Clear Toy Candy – Wayne & Samantha Jacobs
    • Colonial Artist – David Clark
    • Coopering – Colin Moore (Apprentice), Asher Snoddy (Apprentice), Cayden Snyder (Journeymen), Levi Watson, and Rich Nornhold (Master)
    • Country Kitchen – Glenda Yost, Leslie Hartline and Karrie Ravert
    • Fence Post Making – Ed Rovenolt
    • Flintlock Rifle Display – Steve Myers
    • Flintlock Rifle Knapping – Jacob Snyder
    • Fraktur Painting – Marie Burkhart
    • Genealogy Research – Tiadaghton Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution, and Shikelimo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
    • Grandma’s Wash Day – Ilene Anderson
    • Gunsmithing – Roy Houseknecht
    • Hearth Cooking – Maris Kilgus (Journeyman) & Peggy Gelnett (Master)
    • Herb Gardening – Dawn Shawley
    • Horseradish – Heidi & Sue Eppenbach
    • Ice Cream – Lisa and Brendan Mowery
    • Interpretive Center – John Bower & Daniel Bower
    • Johnny Appleseed – Randy Watts
    • Leather work – Jeff Myers
    • Loom Weaving – Irmgard Adams
    • Native American Encampment – Roger and Turtle Swartz
    • Open Hearth Fire Cooking – Brian Kocher & Nancy Lewis
    • Paper Making – Gavin Loss
    • Pennsylvania German Flax Culture – Alice Schrack, Zulia Schrack, Reuben Crist, Nicole Spring (All Apprentices) and Abigail Appleman Schrack (Master)
    • Pickled Cabbage & Sauerkraut – Ruth Ann Mowery
    • Pie Making – Madison Rovenolt
    • Popcorn & Potato Candy – Nicole Basiago
    • Potter – Finnian Spring (Apprentice) and Robert Lee (Master)
    • Pump Making – Steve Moser
    • Quilting – Gail Moser
    • Rake Making – Kohen Susan (Apprentice) and Brent Susan
    • Revolutionary War Encampment – Lynn Otto
    • Rope making & rope bed stringing – Alex Karn, Chanan Susan, Sam Dunkleberger, Tucker Davis and Ryder Davis (All Apprentices)
    • Spinning – Rebekah Richardson
    • Tape Loom – Tirzah Susan (Apprentice)
    • Tin Smithing –Alexa Spaventa (Apprentice), and Scott Gelnett (Master)
    • Wheelwright – Bradd Mertz

    Demonstrations are subject to change.