Time Machine … Engaged!

Middleton Place will host a reenactment of U.S. Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s encampment there during the Revolutionary War this weekend.
Costumed historians will portray the Continental Army sent here in the fall of 1782 by Greene’s superior officer, Gen. George Washington, to keep the British suppressed in the Lowcountry.
South Carolina was home to the highest number of skirmishes between the budding Americans and the British, at close to 500, with New Jersey a distant second with 300. Later in 1782, the British abandoned South Carolina, via Gadsden’s Wharf downtown, and sailed for England.
Programs and interactive demonstration will focus on tactics, camp life, and military field medicine. Period crafts, labor and leisure activities will also be on display, thanks to “Living History” interpreters, that include blacksmithing, open-hearth cooking, coopering, and the like.
 
Living History Days are included in the regular daily admission, and the camp will be open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 5 closing an hour earlier on Sunday, April 6. For more information, call 556-6020, or go to www.middletonplace.org.