LaGrange Freedom Day Rev250 Festival at Germania of Poughkeepsie

Experience the Revolutionary War history of LaGrange at Freedom Day! Enjoy a family-friendly day full of contests, demonstrations, prizes and historical re-enactments:

• Sign of the Declaration of Independence

• Sara Evenson will demonstrate Revolutionary War-era cooking using colonial LaGrange crops, including rye and buckwheat

• Tom Hunt from Waterside Forge will demonstrate blacksmithing

• Jack Sherry will portray Benjamin Franklin

• Ye Olde Balloon Proprietor: Darryl from Button Down Balloons (not period-authentic, but totally worth it!)

• Young Colonials fife and drum performance

• Free ice cream

• Free seeds for planting from the revolution time frame

• Kids crafts, including quill pen and ink demos, cornhusk doll making, nine-pin games, coloring, kite-making, chime-making, and more