I've been wanting to go to King's Mountain Military Park for awhile. The park part isn't really on King's Mountain - it's more of a foothill to the mountain. I knew I could take the boys and not end up carrying them most of the time.
This weekend presented the perfect opportunity. It is Memorial Day weekend, so they had an event where re-enactors dressed up as soldiers from time periods from the French & Indian War and Revolutionary War (whose King's Mountain Battle the park commemorates) all the way to the current Iraqi & Afghanistan wars.
The best part? The weapons demonstrations. Watching how cumbersome Revolutionary War weapons were to load and unload was very interesting. So was seeing the evolution of weapons over the years. Quinn, however, had a near panic attatck from the noise of the weapons (especially the cannon) so he and I ended up taking a hike by ourselves towards the end. 1.5 miles up a minor minor mountain and down again? My back is still a little sore from the parts when I had to carry him!
Also very fun was the fact that the re-enactor the boys hit it off with - the hunter from the Revolutionary War period - was a teacher from Rockford! Talk about a small world!
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