SW094 Living History Interpreters Bring to Life Commemorative Seminole War Encampment

https://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/ and https://seminolecountyhistoricalsociety.com/ for more information. Address is: 300 Eslinger Way Sanford, FL 32773

 

The Museum of Seminole County History is holding a living history encampment commemorating the 185^th anniversary of the Battle of Camp Monroe – a rare U.S. Army victory in the Second Seminole War. Joining us to fill us in on the festivities is Bennett Lloyd. He is a long-time soldier re-enactor, having gotten his start with the Micanopy Regulars. More importantly, he is the museum director. As such he is running this living history programming. He’ll describe all he has in store for visitors on the first weekend in February. Bennett will rejoin us for a second episode to explain the to and fro of the actual battle.

 

An entire room is dedicated to the Seminole Wars at the museum. Museum Director, Bennett Lloyd (Below) portrays a dragoon soldier of the era. Courtesy photos. 

 

 

 

Visitors get interactive engagement with the living historians who describe life back in the 1830s in frontier Florida. 

 

 

 

Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. He is a combat veteran and of the U.S. Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo, and at the Pentagon after 9/11. A military historian, he holds masters degrees in Public History, Communication, and Homeland Security, and is a graduate of the US Army War College with an advanced degree in strategic studies. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Florida. 

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