Historical Reenactments City Hall Council Chambers 540 Water Street Saturday, May 3rd All of the below events are included in the -or- Time Event Ticket price 11:00 AM Historical Perspective Adults $5.00, Children $3.00 12:00 AM The Life and Times of Judge James G. Swan Adults $5.00, Children $3.00  1:00 PM The Grand Mustache and Beard Growing Contest no admission charge  2:00 PM Tea, True Womanhood, and Uppity Women Adults $5.00, Children $3.00  3:00 PM The Life and Times of General George Pickett Adults $5.00, Children $3.00

This is a handicap accessible venue. Elevator access from Madison St.

11:00 am A Conversation with one of Port Townsend's founders and a Mercer Girl. Mike McGuire is the Education Curator at Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in Tacoma. Mike portrayed Francis Pettygrove, co-founder of Port Townsend and also Portland, Oregon, during the popular Victorian Festival Cemetery Tours. Mike gives a very convincing look into the life and times of this key Port Townsend citizen. Francis Pettygrove along with Loren Hastings were scouting Puget Sound for a location to re-settle their families when they met Alfred Plummer and Charles Batchelor. The four men agreed to start a town, which they called Port Townsend. Hastings and Pettygrove returned the following year with their families and other settlers. The town was platted and began to grow.     Melissa McGinnis is the Historic and Cultural Resource Manager for Tacoma Metro Parks and has had a strong guiding hand in the evolution of the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in Tacoma as director of that museum. Melissa portrays Sarah Cheney Willoughby. She interpreted Mrs. Willoughby for three years at the Port Townsend Victorian Festival Cemetery Tours. Sarah Cheney Willoughby was born in 1841, in Lowell, Massachusetts. After attending college in New England, she became one of the "Mercer girls" when she was lured to the West in 1862 by an eighty dollar a month position teaching art and music in Seattle. When there were not enough students to hold the classes, she accepted another job in Port Townsend, where she met the captain of a Coastal Survey ship, Captain Charles B. Willoughby, marrying him in October 1865. 12.00 noon Steve Ricketts presents: The Life and Times of Judge James G. Swan. Steve Ricketts is a retired Forester, having spent most of his career with the U.S. Forest Service. He has been involved with the Jefferson County Historical Society for over 25 years as President, Board Member, and Education Committee Member. He has also been a volunteer with the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in Tacoma doing living history interpretation. He recently coordinated the Port Townsend Victorian Festival Cemetery Tour and interpreted Judge Swan on that tour. This program is a more in-depth living history interpretation of Judge James G. Swan. Judge Swan left his family and came west to make his fortune during the California gold rush. When that didn't work out he looked for other ways to make his fortune. He became an oysterman, teacher, author, artist, customs inspector, justice of the peace, school superintendent, lawyer, judge, Hawaiian consulate, and newspaper correspondent. He became a friend to the Indians and learned their language. 1:00 pm The Grand Mustache and Beard Growing Contest. 2:00 pm Susan Butruille presents: Tea, True Womanhood, and Uppity Women Susan Butruille is the award-winning author of the Women's Voices series published by Tamarack Books in Boise, Idaho. Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail became a regional best seller and inspired an Oregon Public Broadcasting film for which Butruille served as executive consultant and on-air commentator. Watch out for tea parties! That's where many women have started thinking about their lives, their own freedom, and other radical notions. Women launched the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York over tea. And, according to legend, it was at a tea party where women's suffrage began in Wyoming, the first state or territory to allow women to vote. Savor Calamity Jane's "recipe" for Twenty-Year Cake, and travel the trail to Colorado with freed slave Clara Brown. Hear tales of Washington women, both uppity and refined, who explored a wider world for themselves and for their sisters. Learn, enjoy, listen and you may recognize echoes of your own life and times. Tea, anyone? 3:00 pm Mike Vouri and Mike Cohen present: The Life and Times of General George Pickett. Mike Vouri is Park Ranger/Historian for San Juan Island National Historical Park, which on more than 1,750 acres of woodlands, beaches, and prairies commemorates the peaceful resolution of the water boundary dispute (or "Pig War") between the United States and Great Britain. Also a San Juan Island resident, Mike Cohen is a veteran of the New York City folk scene, who has played banjo with nearly everyone there in the 1950s and 1960s, including his own group the Shanty Boys. Who was the famous "leader of the charge" and why does he matter so much to Port Townsend and San Juan Island? Find out from Pickett himself during An Evening with George Pickett. The play, in two acts, covers Pickett's life from his boyhood in Richmond, Virginia, to his untimely death in the 1870s while on a business trip. Along the way, Vouri offers a brisk interpretation of the 19th Century United States and its territories through Pickett's life, which touched almost all of the major themes; while Mr. Cohen plays the banjo and sings period songs.