History will come to life during this year’s Yellow River Festival in Plymouth this weekend. According to organizer Eric Anderson, reenactors will portray Abraham Lincoln and Johnny Appleseed and they will be available to answer questions about historic events pertaining to their era of life. Anderson said other reenactors will be among the crowd.
“We’ll have the earliest Indians. We have LaSalle coming in this year who is the first French explorer from Europe and we’ll have reenactors through World War II. We are all volunteers and they come in and they share their history of their times. Everybody that you see wants to talk to you about their era. They want to share with you,” explained Anderson.
Anderson said that he and fellow organizer Ted Schafer will be among those bringing history to life for festival goers.
“Ted represents the 12th Indiana Volunteer Calvary. I do the 9th Indiana Company D. We have the 21st Indiana volunteer artillery canon. We have a Civil War doctor, Travis Childs, coming on Saturday. We have up to eight troops coming in and representing World War II. They’re going to do an invasion of Europe from June 6, 1944.”
The Yellow River Festival is Saturday, June 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, June 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in River Park Square in Plymouth. For a complete festival guide, visit www.yellowriverfestival.com.
