Baraboo Old Fashioned Days Event

[PShrake]

Gentlemen and Ladies of the Regiment,

We have been codially invited by the Baraboo Old Fashioned Days committee to put on a living history demonstration on the old courthouse grounds in down town Baraboo on Saturday July 26.

This would be a very simple one day event, from about 9 to about 4. We can do anything we want, drill demonstrations, marching, camp life, general interpretation, really anything we want. And most of all we would get PAID to do it. Right now we would recieve up to 100 dollars and there is the possibility for more if we really wanted it.

For those who know of the Baraboo Old Fashioned Days, the event has been slipping for a few years, but the event committee has several new members who are really trying to reinvigorate the event. Frankly its a fun time, and the courthouse lawn is a pretty, shaded, and historic site. Many of Sauk County's soldiers assembled on the grounds before being shipped off to training camps, there is even a real nice GAR monument on the site.

For any one who is interested please post on this thread or call Pete Shrake at 608-356-1001 (work) or 355-9884 (home) We need at least 6 members but the more the merrier.

Pete Shrake

[Spencer Davis]

Pete,

You can count me in. I can remember going to the Old Fashioned Days when I was younger but have not gone in quite a few years. I believe that the monomunt lists all of the company's that left Sauk County during the War. Unfortunatly the soldier on top of the monument is missing his ramrod, and any attempts to replace it has lead to having it gone missing again. But it sounds like fun.

Spencer

[PShrake]

Thanks Spencer, Look foreward to seeing you there!

[Robert Braun]

I will try to make it, too.

Bob.

[Tom Klas]

Pete,

Upon getting some responses from the Hard Heads, we should have a couple guys attending as well.

Hope to see you at North Freedom.

Tom Klas

[PShrake]

Thanks Tom!

I look foreward to seeing you guys at both events.

Pete

[PShrake]

To get to Baraboo, take highway 90/94 to highway 33. Follow 33 into Baraboo and at the second stop light
(intersection with Broadway) turn left (you can only turn left). At the next stop light (intersection with Broadway and 4th Ave) look to the left, you will see the county courthouse, we will be set up on the opposite side of the square on the courthouse lawn next to the GAR statue of a Civil War Soldier.

Unfortunately the streets around the square will all be blocked with vendors and such, so parking will have to be at least a block or more away. There is a parking lot not far from the square off second street. If you stay on Broadway till the next stop light (intersection of Broadway and 2nd Ave), turn left on to second and at the next corner (2nd and Oak) you will see a parking lot to your right. If it is full, my reccomendation is to find the nearest spot on the street. The earlier you come, the better the parking spot you will find.

Once you park, if you walk to the square via Oak street you will come right to the Civil War statue.

If you are coming to Baraboo via highway 12 the directions are nearly the same. Upon coming to town, the first stoplight, (hyy 12 and Cty HWY W) turn right. This is actually business 12 and eventualy becomes Broadway stay on this street, through town. After you cross the Baraboo river, you will be in downtown, the first stop light you will see is the intersection of Broadway and 2nd. Turn right and you will come onto the parking lot described above.

Thank you in advace for all who are coming. The event will begin at 9 and will kind of fizzle to an end sometime between 3:30 and 4:00. We will be setting up camp by the GAR statue and we pretty much can do whatever we want, Drills, demostrations, fireings, etc. We have nearly half the courthouse lawn as our parade ground.

Pete

[PShrake]

Just a note of thanks to everyone who attended "Old Fashioned Day." Thanks to Bob Braun, Tom Klas, Dave May and Mark Reitz for coming out. It was a mellow event, but filled with 2 intense drill sessions and a wicked game of poker!

Thanks everyone!

Pete