Roasting Ears of Corn

While we were dealing with record flooding in upstate Pennsylvania, Capt. Pitchell was dealing with the rain at the Roasting Ears of Corn festival at the Museum of Indian Culture near Allentown, PA.  

While he may not have had quite the overwhelming flooding we experienced, the weather certainly put a bit of a damper over the crowds, and made some of the demonstrations a bit more difficult.  Nonetheless, Capt. Pitchell put out a great display and had a good experience meeting people and talking about the conflict of the late 1750s.  It is interesting to be placed in the adversarial role, as public sympathies at this event honor those against whom the original Frontier Guard campaigned.  Only recently have historians begun to give the complexities of the struggle for North American empire their proper due, and the role of Indian cultures has become much more prominent as a more nuanced look at the conflict has emerged.