Friends,
This is your opportunity for Civilians, Field Music, Infantry, Medical, ... ALL reenacters to support a great program headed by a very committed teacher George Chimenti who knows the value of hands-on living history. This is a wonderful program which the Third Maine and 15th Ala have participate in for the last six years (?). Please, if you are available, come and enjoy the excitement of sparking a student's imagination. Help us to hook them on their history.
Thanks,
Craig

Mt Blue MS Educational Outreatch Program
Form up is at 7:45am and coffee and snacks will be ready by 7:15, we hope to start about 8:10, student sergeants will meet you in the front parkng lot and bring you to the mess hall.

Mapquest information:
Street address is 269 Middle Street, Farmington, ME 04938

Directions north from Auburn:
* take rt4 north from Auburn (about 1 hr to Farmington)
*rt4 n will intersect with rt2 east in Wilton so follow rt4/rt2 into Farmington
*follow thru 4 traffic lights you"all see  Mc do. on left and baseball field on right
*continue on rt4 past UMF to traffic light downtown Farmington
* make right at light on to rt43
*take next right
*left on to Middle St / school about 3/4 mile on right

Directions EAST from Augusta:
* take Rt 202 WEST to Winthrop
* take Rt 133 NORTH to Livermore Falls
* take rt4 north from Livermore Falls (about 30 min to Farmington)
*rt4 n will intersect with rt2 east in Wilton so follow rt4/rt2 into Farmington
*follow thru 4 traffic lights you"all see  Mc do. on left and baseball field on right
*continue on rt4 past UMF to traffic light downtown Farmington
* make right at light on to rt43
*take next right
*left on to Middle St / school about 3/4 mile on right

FYI, An Email from Mt Blue MS

Greetings 3rd Maine and other friends of Mt. Blue
Middle School:

We are eagerly preparing for our April 26 Civil
War Day and look forward to participating in another
great living history experience with all of you. Rain
or shine we will be ready. Our group of student
sergeants have been selected and are working on their
muskets this week. Doug Tucker has again volunteered
to work on a manual of arms with our students
beforehand. A new activity that the sergeants will
participate in is a bivouac behind MBMS the night
before Civil War Day. The students will stay
overnight in four Civil War era tents that they have
put together from kits we purchased several years ago.
Two of our teachers, Greg Trefethen and Carroll Bond,
began this two years ago with a group of students and
it was a great success. Our Family and Consumer
Science teacher, Betsy Brady, is again organizing our
students and volunteers in preparing the Civil War era
meal for presenters (reenacters) and staff. A menu of
homemade chowders, stew, breads, and pies is being
planned. Our cafeteria staff is getting into the
theme of the day as well this year by preparing an era
appropriate lunch for our seventh graders.

Chorus, orchestra, and P.E. will have
representation this year, our teachers are working
with groups of student volunteers. The fiddlers will
do a presentation to accompany our contra dance
performance led by the P.E. staff. The social studies
teachers are working out logistics and organizing the
station times and rotation of presenters. Several new
stations we are adding this year are interactive games
of the time period, women roles in the Civil War, and
a communications station featuring the telegraph and
Morse Code. We also will feature local artifacts and
student projects. Much of our staff has offered to
participate and help out in any way they can. We have
two canopies which will be available for outdoor
stations if needed.

We look forward to as many reenactor presenters
that would like to come to Mt. Blue Middle School on
the 26th and we will prepare accordingly. Questions
or confirmations can go through Craig Young, Email
cayoung1952@yahoo.com, who has been such a valuable
resource to MBMS or with me George Chimenti at my
e-mail gmidchi@tds.net or feel free to call me between
5 and 8 p.m. any night at 628-5310.

Thanks and best to all,
Teacher George Chimenti
Mt. Blue Middle School

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