Caroline Branham was one of George Washington's housemaids at Mount Vernon. Part of Branham's role on the estate was cleaning and maintaining the rooms in the Mansion. She was also the person who first discovered Washington was ill shortly before he passed. In this video, join one of our interpre...

This Revolutionary War battle took place in 1781. It was intended to lure George Washington away from Yorktown, and back to the northern colonies. Leading the attack was Benedict Arnold, who was born in Connecticut, just a few miles north of where the battle took place.

Benedict Arnold's knowled...

In 1777, during the revolutionary war, British troops attacked a supply depot in Danbury Connecticut. The following day continental troops assembled, and attacked the British troops on their march back to Long Island Sound.
The American troops were commanded by General Wooster. He split the force...

Fort St. Frederic was built in 1735 to control important waterways in the New York frontier, and for the French to lay claim over the region. This fort was an important outpost during 2 wars. Many raids by the French and their Indian allies began at Fort St. Frederic. Attacks were made all over N...

The movie explores the formative figures and defining events of Chincoteague Island during a period of rapid change. Set between the late 18th century and the years just before the construction of the lighthouse, it offers a vivid window into the island’s history.
Little-known fact: Several chara...

Longhunter Volume One discusses clothing, making center seam moccasins, oil cloth, accouterments, rifle cleaning, firearms, walnut dye, paper cartridges & various skills used by hunters on the eastern frontier during the 18th century. Flint knapping demo by William White.

Features live recordings of Morgan’s Glade with Larry Spisak and some songs from disbanded Curmudgeon & some out-takes from our Longhunter Series. Includes a redone vignette of Red is the Rose. Fun & entertaining with some of our best video shots.

Longhunter Volume Two demonstrates more aspects of frontier life such as fire starting with flint & steel, open fire cooking, parching corn, bedroll, jerky, Johnny cake, hot chocolate, casting ball, quick bread & a segment with Paul Dinsmore showing how to brain tan a deerskin.

Longhunter Volume Three Mark makes shoe packs for cold weather, turkey calls, cooking fish & fowl, roasting coffee beans, brewing coffee, tea, food sacks, shelters & cow knees. Mike Alton demonstrates a match coat & James Moore shows how to make a turkey call.

Longhunter Volume Four includes food items in the settlements, preparing trail rations, belt axes, leggings, campsites & famous one-blanket tricks and more.

William White from Woodbury, Kentucky forges & files a fine bench made knife with buffalo slab handles & a cast pewter pommel & hilt. A gifted & talented craftsman who demonstrates in detail the art of making a fine knife.

The Longhunter saga continues with Mark Baker bringing to life the frontier experience. Educational and entertaining with demonstrations in camp life, open fire cooking, speed loading and water crossings. Special features include Wallace Gusler on hunting shirts and Charlie Brown bark tanning dee...

A 2-1/2 hour presentation featuring living legend Hershel House building a fine relief carved & engraved flintlock rifle. From start to finish Hershel teaches how to build a classic Kentucky Rifle beginning with a stock blank, Colerain barrel, a lock & some brass castings. He inlets the tapered &...

Enjoy another 2-1/2 hour program with Hershel House demonstrating options on building flintlock rifles with a swaged muzzle cap or a two piece muzzle cap, silver wire inlay, inletting a silver name plate in a gun barrel, tuning a gunlock, making a traditional worm for cleaning a gun & how he shar...

Ken Scott demonstrates how to make a traditional leather hunting bag while showing many options in their design and construction. A very open and complete demonstration which includes how to age and antique the finished pouch.

Join us for ninety minutes of Hershel demonstrating basic blacksmith skills with projects to include building a proper fire, forging, brazing, welding, tempering, hot cuts, hot filing, & forging a trigger guard & butt plate and Hershel forging a backwoods style knife. A bonus segment on tuning a ...

Leather tanning is now expanded to demonstrate two traditional methods of tanning deerskin. Mark Baker field dresses a deer, Paul Dinsmore skins it then shows step by step how to brain tan and smoke the hide. Charlie Brown then demonstrates how to bark tan a deerskin. Both segments are taken from...