Opening Activities
12/6/08

10:00 Opening and Ribbon Cutting in Market Square

Market Square

On-going:

Hallowed Ground Tours - Architectural walking tours

Civil War re-enactors encampment

Catherine W. Jones Mckann Center

Presentations:

10:30 John Hennessy "I Was Born a Slave: The World and Words of John Washington"

11:30 Jim Thomas "Songs from the Field: Slave Spirituals"

1:30 Chris Sacash "The Experience of a Civil War Soldier"

2:30 John Hennessy "World War II at Home: Fredericksburg on the Homefront"

Activities in the Learning Center:

11:00 Create Wooden Boats

12:00 Make coiled clay pots

1:00 Make and play Mancala

2:00 Make and play Virginia Indian games

3:00 Make your own cross stitch square

Town Hall

Presentations:

11:00 Colonial Dancers

12:00 Carson Hudson, Historical Diversions "Whoop and Holler: The Changing Sound and Perception of the Banjo"

2:00 Colonial Dancers

3:00 Carson Hudson, Historical Diversions "Whoop and Holler: The Changing Sound and Perception of the Banjo"

Activities:
Ongoing - Colonial crafts and activities