Staff photograph by Ben Goff
A team of volunteer interpreters, including Matt Slaughter (from left) of Rogers, Jim Spillars of Fayetteville and Robert Kroening of Fayetteville, fire a blank charge recently at the Pea Ridge National Military Park artillery demonstration. The park performs the interpretive living history presentations roughly every other week from May through September. The next demonstration will be Saturday, July 29. See The TIMES community calendar or check out the PRNMP website https://www.nps.gov/peri/index.htm for dates and times.
Staff photograph by Ben Goff
Jim Spillars (right), a volunteer interpreter from Fayetteville, demonstrates how to swab the bore of a 6-pound smoothbore cannon recently during a Civil War Union artillery demonstration at Pea Ridge National Military Park. The park performs the interpretive living history presentations roughly every other week from May through September. The next demonstration will be Saturday, July 29. See The TIMES community calendar or check out the PRNMP website https://www.nps.gov/peri/index.htm for dates and times.
Community on 07/26/2017