Pennsylvanian May Fair in 1776
At Pottsgrove Manor’s annual May Fair, families gathered to celebrate spring with maypole dancing, a vendor marketplace, and a wide variety of living history activities across the museum grounds. Visitors explored colonial-era trades and skills through demonstrations of military life, printing, gardening, cooking, baking, blacksmithing, and stonework.
Reenactors, craftspeople, and entertainers brought history to life both inside and outside the museum. Heritage Dancers performed historical dances, while guests visited sheep, learned about colonial printing, and watched blacksmith demonstrations. Hearth-cooking demonstrations added another hands-on glimpse into daily life in the colonial era.
See More Photos from the Event
See more photos from the event (also available for purchase and social sharing) in Everhart Creative’s online gallery.
About the Site
Pottsgrove Manor (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) was built in 1752 and showcases early Georgian architecture while telling the history of John and Ruth Potts, their 13 children, and the paid, indentured, and enslaved people who lived and labored here.
Candid Photography at Day Programming
One of my favorite parts of taking photos at reenactments and historic house programs is spending time with the dedicated, passionate volunteers who portray people of the past. I’ve had the pleasure of photographing similar programs, like one highlighting winter celebrations in Historic Annapolis and another on rural life on the Appalachian frontier at the Conococheague Institute.
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