Meet the Historic Interpreters

John Boback

John Boback interprets the Bray Blacksmith Shop.

John Fredrick
John Fredrick interprets the Prickett trading post.

Samantha Jones
Samantha Jones demonstrates various Eastern Woodland Indian women's skills.

Bradley Omanson
Bradley Omanson interprets frontier farming and agriculture including animal care.

Okey Simmons
Okey Simmons represents a militia character and horner. He works with bone and horn to create a wide variety of objects including powderhorns.

Cordelia Spencer
Cordelia Spencer interprets daily life for a woman inside the Fort including hearth cooking and animal husbandry.

Rebecca VanGilder
Rebecca VanGilder demonstrates various Eastern Woodland Indian women's skills.

Judy Wilson
Judy Wilson demonstrates various women's skills particularly textiles. She raises her own fiber producing animals on her farm which she uses for spinning, weaving and dyeing.

 

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