Perryville-Eve of Battle

[captdougofky]

To All

It should be a good time, since the Town is behind it. The Town has been left out of things in recent years. It nice they have taken a interest in their place in History as far as the Battle went. Merchants Row is in need of repair. Money generated should help in its rehab.
With the list of community groups involved, support by reenactors should be good. I for one look forward to being there and helping keep History alive.

Always
Doug Thomas
Lyons-Kentucky CS

[Spinster]

Merchants Row in Perryville is a delight. Over the years, I've stayed in about 8 of the structures during various living history events.

Traffic control for these sorts of living histories has been problematic on occassion, especially when needed for horse based sceanrios. With more interest from local clubs, there should be a better result on that account.

[MajorK]

How right you are Mrs. Lawson, it's hard to have a living history with a semi-tractor-trailer rumbling through your scenario or waiting for the light and blocking everyone's view. The town is trying to work through the proper channels to close US 68 from 4th Street to US 150 from 9am Friday till 3pm Sunday to facillitate the portion of the events on Merchant's Row. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

At a recent walkthrough with some of the townfolks, I was amazed at all the work already done to a lot of the buildings on Merchant's Row. Several were recently painted, one was having it's dry stack stone foundation repaired and several large custom cut solid wood beams were stacked outside another. We plan to devote several work days to cleaning up the Parks-Kerrick House, the Park's Store, Dr. Polk's Office and the Bond House in the coming months in preparation for the event. (I can't decide on which place I'll stay at, they're all wonderfully preserved.) There are also a couple of old sheds and barns that may require razing. The town has really stepped up to the challenge of preserving this important piece of their history.

Let's hope that a few folks will drop by on their way to or from the reenactment that weekend and see what a marvelous job has been done in restoring this jewel of a small town.

[Spinster]

How right you are Mrs. Lawson, it's hard to have a living history with a semi-tractor-trailer rumbling through your scenario or waiting for the light and blocking everyone's view. The town is trying to work through the proper channels to close US 68 from 4th Street to US 150 from 9am Friday till 3pm Sunday to facillitate the portion of the events on Merchant's Row. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

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Good luck with that and get it in writing. Really. And I'm not trying to be a boo bird here, I'm just saying past experience.

Despite all the prearranging done for the civilians downtown during the 2002(?or thereabouts) NSA National, countless site visits, pre-event work, and such like, when the time came, law enforcement was not cooperative and previously approved closings were not implemented.