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Colonial history comes alive at Bushy Run Battlefield event

Skylar Graham, 13, and her sister, Addison Graham, 11, react to looking at animal furs while listening to local historian and reenactor Henry Bowden of Turtle Creek, at right, while their parents, Laura and Allen Graham, background, look on during Living History Day on Saturday<ins>, Feb. 8, </ins> at Bushy Run Battlefield Museum.

The Graham family of Madison took time Saturday to see a slice of 18th-century colonial life on the Western Pennsylvania frontier — guns, knives, compasses, a canteen, powderhorns, bowls, woodworking tools and a variety of animal pelts — at the living history event at the Bushy Run Battlefield Museum in Penn Township.


Source: The Tribune-Review