Neary-Sighted

Several years ago, you could count every spring on enjoying a very fun and educational event and one of Lakewood's biggest tourist attractions. A Civil War re-enactment attracted more than 5,000 visitors from as far away as Seattle and beyond every Memorial Day Weekend to Fort Steilacoom Park. I used to coordinate the ticket-takers at the booth. I can testify there were a lot of happy adults and children every year who came back again and again.

So here's the good news: the event will be returning, in another form, on the weekend of May 9 and 10.

The events were co-sponsored by Lakewood's Fort Steilacoom Museum and a civil war re-enacting group. The group held the event partly in Lakewood to support Fort Steilacoom, at which a variety of Civil War soldiers were stationed before the war began: people including George Picket, Augustus Kautz, Silas Casey, and others. However, the re-enacting group moved the re-enactments to Spokane several years ago.

A group of dedicated local re-enactors will be re-establishing a re-enactment this spring. It will be an experiment. There's no telling how many re-enactors will come, but it's the first event of the re-enacting season. There's nowhere else for re-enactors to go to that weekend. There could be hundreds. So we sure help they come to Lakewood! Stay tuned, more information to come. Oh, and if you'd like to help sell wristbands and share in the excitment, please let me know.
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