Town of West Boylston 200th Anniversary Celebration

June 6, 7 and 8, 2008
Public is invited Free
Bicentennial items will be on sale at this event
$2.50 - Fee for bus ride from parking area's

The re-enactors will arrive on Friday, June 6. Eight to ten of the soldiers will come earlier to make a presentations to the students at the elementary and middle schools. The colonials will set up an encampment at the Historical Society, and the Red Coats will camp on the common in front of the Masonic Lodge. Both groups will be assisted by high school students. These events are not open to the public

Throughout the weekend the Ladies of Refined Taste will be at the Bigelow Tavern (the Historical Society Building) across from the Congregational Church. They will be cooking for the soldiers and giving needlework demonstrations. There will also be vendors, called sutlers, at the Historical Society selling revolutionary war items

There will demonstrations and drills on the common throughout the weekend.

JUNE 7, 2008
9:00 am	Re- enacters and members of the SAR will be marching into the cemetery by the chapel and moving to the grave site of Joseph Dwelly, a former Revolutioary Soldier, for a ceremony dedicating a new grave stone, placing an SAR marker and laying a wreath there. After that ceremony they will march over to the Bicentennial Stone for a re-dedication there. This stone is dedicated to all those who left, what is now the town of West Boylston, to serve in the Revolutionary War and those soldiers who answered the call on April 19,1775. There will also be a reading of a proclamation to this effect as well the laying of a wreath here.
9:30 am	Bus transport to Camp Woodhaven – re-enactors
11:00am to 5:30 pm	Bus transport for spectators to and from Camp Woodhaven at $2.50 per person. Spectator parking at Walmart, Checkerboard and Salter College lots.
10:00 am to 10:00 pm	Vendors open on common Ladies of Refined Taste and Sutlers at Bigelow Tavern
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm	There will be a battle between His Majesty’s fifth regiment of foot and rebels of the fourth Middlesex aided by the 85eme Regiment de Saintonge. There will be shuttle busses for spectators, although handicapped parking is available at the camp.
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm	Beverage tent open for spectators
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm	Ham and bean supper for the soldiers will be at the Masonic Hall. (four seatings). This is not open to the public. There will be food vendors around the common for spectators.
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm	A concert by the Middlesex County Volunteers Fife and drum at the bandstand.
9:30 pm	Last bus from Church St. to spectator parking lots
JUNE 8, 2008
9:00 am	Ecumenical church service on the common
10:00 am to 4:00 pm	Re-enactor tacticals, muster contest on common. Vendors open
4:00 pm	End of festivities

Call Gail Radcliffe (508)-835-1661 for more information