Event to feature French-Indian War re-enactment

The event will include demonstrations of engraving, musketry and painting.
CARLTON, Pa. -- French and & amp; Indian War re-enactors will be loading their muskets for a two-day encampment at the Custaloga Town Boy Scout Reservation on June 17-18.
About 400 re-enactors and 25 merchants will attend the event, which is being hosted by the French Creek Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the French Creek Living History Association.
Included in the event will be children's programs, a blacksmith, 18th-century gunsmiths and dealers, an 18th-century doctor, powder horn makers and engravers, a colonial furniture maker, a colonial sign engraver, a woodland American Indian camp, cannon and musket firing demonstrations and French and Indian War era painters.
The re-enactors will demonstrate a French Creek canoe landing by the French and natives, who will trade furs. There will also be live tactical engagements.
Free for the public
This event is free and open to the public. Workshops will be conducted for a fee on quill pens, powder horns and turkey calls.
The Custaloga Town Boy Scout Reservation is can be reached by taking Interstate 80 east to Interstate 79 north. Get off at the Sandy Lake/Greenville Exit, No. 130. Follow Pa. Route 358 east toward Sandy Lake until it ends at Pa. Route 173. Turn left (north) and follow Route 173 for about seven miles to village of Milledgeville. Turn right on Creek Road and follow it about four miles. Custaloga Town will be on the left. For more information, call Jim Brown at (814) 763-5857.