SUNBURY - As one of the Northumberland County Historical Society's Living History Days, Colonial Crafts Demonstration Day Saturday featured skilled cratfspeople from central Pennsylvania and southern New York who displayed their work and demonstrated the crafts of the 18th century daily life.
Woodworking, powder horn making, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, lace making, fraktur, spinning, weaving and basket making were represented, and a gardener, seamstress, trader and several soldiers explained their roles and demonstrated methods used during the same time period.
Society volunteers also staffed the Fort Augusta museum, the genealogical research library and bookstore. Visitors were able to view the two remaining Fort Augusta features on the property - the well and the powder magazine, and the Hunter-Grant cemetery. In cooperation with the Susquehanna River Valley Heritage Alliance's efforts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, the society mounted a temporary exhibit of Civil War artifacts and Abraham Lincoln items. The event was free and open to the public.