[mountaineer]

Thanks for the pings. I hope to accompany my nieces to at least one event. They're only 5 and 9, but have seen several Bushy Run reenactments.

[niteowl77]

My dad is supposedly a descendant of Col. Henry Bouquet; unfortunately, there is no record of Old Buckey ever marrying. Whatever the case, because of the purported family tie, I started reading up on the Seven Years War, which never interested me much as a kid.

The American frontier when it was still east of the Mississippi makes the cinematic "wild west" look positively tame.

[toothfairy86]

I live near Bushy Run. They usually have the reenactment the first week of August. Also there was a great piece about General Braddock in the Focus section of today's Trib.