This is essentially what remains of a Dutch/Colonial village with people still living in these 17th & 18th c. stone houses. It's a regular community with its post office, bank, shops, etc., with 19th & 20th c. houses throughout. Every year, they host an open house tour. The grounds are used for various period activities.
Really neat! (If I were under 20, I'd say, "Really cool")
No face painting; no balloons; no tube steaks & burgers; no hawking; just life as it was.
This swivel gun (sorry! No powder can. He wasn't one of us) is bronze and cast by a man in Vermont. I understand he had cast no more than a dozen pieces and sold them in the rough for $350 each. I believe the bore is 1.25". He purchased it at a Fort Ticonderoga reenactment.
I suggested he google and sign-on with Graybeard and look-up Dom Carpenter among others. He said that cannon makers are scarce and only knew of Hern.
The grenade mortar is from Coolville. I have Paul (the owner) visiting our board and he will sign on. He is the Colonial Artillery lecturer I mentioned in another post. Nice fellow.
He launches socks with a film can charge of Fg. Thanks to El Cazador's helping me find a mail order powder seller; I passed the info on to this gentleman too.
He is a stickler for authenticity and had first fashioned a base from Curly Maple but then made the regulation base. I told him to look-up Dom Carpenter for a steel replacement to keep his curly maple base working.
Thank goodness Double D didn't get to him or he would have painted the curly maple
