Court & Market Days Festival - June 2

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.	Experience a Real Market Day! Location: Turner Pavilion Be sure to include some time to enjoy our Farmers Market in your festival plans. You will find 50 plus local vendors offering a wide variety of farm fresh food, tasty baked goods, prepared foods and much more along with a variety of select local crafts.
9:00 a.m. to Noon	Covered Wagon Rides by Classic Carriage Tickets: Adults - $5.00 Children ages 4-7: $3.00 Children 3 and under: Free
9:00	Music Performance by Shenandoah Valley Minstrels Location: Entertainment Tent Formed in 2009, the Shenandoah Valley Minstrels specializes in music from the Civil War era. Get ready to sing along with them!
10:00 - 10:25	Lecture: The 1862 Valley Campaign by Shannon Moeck Location: Entertainment Tent Learn about the audacious and brilliant campaign of Confederate Major General Stonewall Jackson that prevented nearly 50,000 Union soldiers from joining the Union offensive against Richmond. Ms. Moeck is a park ranger specializing in historical interpretation at Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
10:30	Walking Tour of Civil War Harrisonburg by Ben Fordney Tours leave from the Information Tent The 45-minute walking tour tells the story of Harrisonburg during the Civil War. A second tour will be offered at 12:30 p.m. Read more
10:30 - 11:00	Play: Voices from the Courthouse Prison Location: City Council Chambers Voices from the Courthouse Prison is a short play depicting the events of the winter of 1862 when Mennonite & Brethren leaders were imprisoned in theRockingham County Courthouse for resisting the war effort. Hear the voices of Elder John Kline, Gabe Heatwole and others as they share their beliefs and struggles – and of the women who go to visit and care for them during that cold winter. Sponsored by CrossRoads: The Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center
10:30	Children's Games / Music by the Valley Pike Fife & Drum Corp Location: Lawn
11:05 - 11:30	Lecture: Civil War Food Stories from the Home Front by Danielle Torisky Location: Entertainment Tent Danielle Torisky is an Associate Professor in the Health Sciences Department, Dietetics Program, at James Madison University, teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Torisky’s Civil War focus is in nutrition, health, and medicine for both soldiers and civilians. Publications include the article “Quantity Feeding in the American Civil War" as well as “Comfort Foods and Food Remedies in the 19th Century”, a chapter in Portals to Shenandoah Valley Folkways.
11:35 - 12:15 p.m.	Shenandoah Valley Civil War Era Dancers Location: Entertainment Tent The Shenandoah Valley Civil War Era Dancers will demonstrate popular dances from the Civil War period. Audience participation is requested.
12:15 - 12:45	Play: Voices from the Courthouse Prison Location: City Council Chambers
12:15 - 12:45	Music Performance by Shenandoah Valley Minstrels Location: Entertainment Tent
12:30	Walking Tour of Civil War Harrisonburg by Ben Fordney Tours leave from the Information Tent
1:00	Children's Games on the Lawn
1:00 - 1:45	Lecture: The Great Train Robbery by Arthur Candenquist Location: Entertainment Tent In the Summer of 1861, shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, the new Southern Confederacy faced an increasing need to supplement the small numbers of railroad rolling stock in the South. Then-Col.Thomas J. Jackson contrived and executed a brilliant scheme to “appropriate” the needed cars, locomotives, and equipment from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, then under his control in the northern edge of Virginia.The best-placed plans to easily accomplish this mission went awry when Col. Jackson’s men became overzealous in following the orders of their beloved commander. The result was an episode of the War Between the States the logistics of which amazed officials on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Arthur Candenquist retired in 2007 after almost 33 years of railroad service. He held several positions as a signal tower operator, a train dispatcher and assistant chief train dispatcher before being appointed to his last position at Amtrak's corporate headquarters in Washington, D. C. Mr. Candenquist has been a serious scholar of the War Between the States since 1956, and focuses his attention on the more unusual and lesser-known aspects of the War. He has published two articles on keeping time during the War (there was no Standard Time during the 1860s); an article on Stonewall Jackson’s appropriation of the B&O Railroad equipment in 1861; and two articles on the world’s first military railroad---the Centreville Military Railroad, constructed in 1861 between Manassas Junction and Centreville, Va.
1:45 - 2:00	Music by the Valley Pike Fife & Drum Corp

All-Day Activities

HistoryMobile Display
Encampment display by the Virginia’s 10th Infantry
Music by the Valley Pike Fife & Drum Corp
Artisan demonstrations
Museum displays
Living history re-enactors
Food vendors and sutler shops
Civil War film in the Hardesty Higgins House

HistoryMobile Display (Exhibit is free and open to the public)

Images of HistoryMobile

The HistoryMobile will be located in the heart of the festival behind the City Municipal Building during the following times:

Friday, June 1: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 2: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The expandable 78-foot tractor-trailer contains a high-tech immersive experience detailing Virginia’s incomparable place in history. The HistoryMobile draws together stories from all over Virginia and uses state-of-the-art technology and immersive exhibit spaces to present individual stories of the Civil War and Emancipation from the viewpoints of those who experienced it—young and old, enslaved and free, soldiers and civilians.

Visitors will encounter history in ways they may have never seen. The HistoryMobile exhibit is divided into four sections: Battlefront, Homefront, Journey to Freedom, and Loss-Gain-Legacy. From the emotional letter written by a dying son to his father after sustaining a mortal wound at Spotsylvania in 1864, to an overheard conversation between husband and wife considering the great risks and rewards of fleeing to freedom, the HistoryMobile presents the stories of real people whose lives were shaped by the historic events of the 1860s and invites visitors to imagine and consider, “What Would You Do?”

> Teachers: If you are interested in bringing your school group or class to tour the HistoryMobile on Friday, June 1, 2012, please contact Kim Kirk at 540.432.8936.

Civil War Encampment

by the 10th Virginia Infantry

10th Virginia Infantry

Walking Tour of Civil War Harrisonburg Information:

The walking tours will include the Confederate General Hospital, now the location of the City of Harrisonburg Municipal Building, and the Hardesty-Higgins House where Union General Nathaniel Banks had his headquarters in 1862.

The Warren–Sipe House, now the Virginia Quilt Museum, was built in 1855 by Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren who served with the 10^thVirginia Regiment, volunteer infantry. Joseph White Latimer, “The Boy Major,” died there after being mortally wounded at Gettysburg.

Participants will also experience Court Square, where 2,500 - 3,000 Federal prisoners were temporarily confined in 1862, and Mennonites and Brethrens were imprisoned for resisting Confederate military conscription.

Finally, the site of Hill’s Hotel will be visited, where Capt. John Hanson McNeil, commander of the 18^th Virginia Cavalry, McNeil’s Partisan Rangers, died on Nov. 10, 1864 after being wounded by his own men in Shenandoah County.