Artillery demonstrated at Pea Ridge battlefield

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. See The TIMES community calendar on page 5A or check out the PRNMP website https://www.nps.gov/peri/index.htm for dates and times. There will be an artillery demonstration Saturday, June 24, beginning at 11 a.m. The last demonstration will begin at 3 p.m.

Community on 06/21/2017