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Perfect Weather for 2013 Boileau Festival

The seventh annual Boileau Festival featured re-enactors, puppeteers and sheepherding.

The seventh annual Boileau Festival took place Saturday, at Boileau Park.

Nick Scull, chairman of the Friends of Boileau, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of the Boileau Farmstead, provides the following comments about this year's festival:

"This may have been the best festival ever. Attendance, if measured by the hot dogs given out, was near 300.  The weather was perfect with temperatures in the 70's Live music was performed all afternoon.The re-enactors included the colonial troops from Newtown's Crossing Church, They did drill demonstrations, and fired their muskets on command.

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Colonial Chldren's pastimes were  demonstrated, along with spinning and open fire cooking. The Pennswood's puppeteers presented two performances with historic themes. There was a pony ride and live animals.  The sheepherding demonstration was held several times on the athletic field. The Barn had a new interpreter, who displayed the classic tools and explained the techinques used to build the Boileau Barn.

On display were the new barn roof, new Palladian windows to be installed in the barn, and a new cellar door that will go in the farmhouse shortly. Many happy  children departed with a free balloon on their wrist, while their parents gained a new awareness of Upper Moreland's Historic Farmstead."

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For more information, www.friendsofboileau.org.


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