Celebrate Charles! March From Benedict

On Saturday August 30, CCASM participated in the event "Celebrate Charles! March From Benedict".  The event was to commemorate the landing of the British at Benedict two hundred years ago during the War of 1812.  The British then marched to Washington where they burned the capitol.  Subsequent events at Baltimore led to the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner"

There were two locations - 1) Serenity Farm with crafters, inflatable games for children, petting zoo, and "1812 music" and 2) Maxwell Hall with historic reenactments, crafters, toys and games, and "1812 music" with a free shuttle between the two locations.

CCASM was at Serenity Farm and had one of the booths closest to the parking lot so lots of people stopped as they arrived.  The adults stopped to looked at the projectile point poster and then to sort the type of artifacts that are often overlooked - fire cracked rock, flakes, and ceramics.  The children stopped for the seed identification activity and to reconstruct plate fragments.  There was also the Port Tobacco trifold and a trifold showing photos of CCASM working on a Native American site.  And Rich also brought his bag of trash. 

We had nice weather.  It was sunny with temperatures in the 80's, and a light breeze that kept blowing over the photo trifold.

CCASM members helping with the booth were Barbara, Carol, Lindsey, Sarah, and Rich.