![]() Hosted over the Labor Day weekend, the annual event will feature hundreds of reenactors, music. There’s a lot of kids activities, but then, for the people that are really into it, there are full-on discussions of the logistics of Grant’s Tennessee campaign. The Huntington Beach Civil War Days Living History Event is the largest re-enactment of the war in Southern California, according to Rivers, drawing 800 or more participants each year. Huntington Beach’s iconic Civil War Days reenactment is back this year for its 30th anniversary. This 3 story library set on the edge of a park and near an amphitheater in the middle of Huntington Beach. If you’ve never seen a horse before, a cannon fired, if you want to see what a solider wears or eats, there’s all of that. Now, however, it is a highly developed outdoor mall with Kohls, REI, CostPlus, Whole Foods, and so much more. “You have people that are really interested in a particular subject … There’s kind of every level of history there. “In the last few years we’ve done a lot more educational programs and lectures,” Rivers said. They will give a talk, as will someone who speaks on the engineers of the war. New this year, Rivers said, is a group portraying the Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The 26th annual Civil War Days event continues Sunday at 7111 Talbert Ave. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is set to close the event at 2:45 p.m. People portraying historical figures like Lincoln, Union Gen. This weekend’s event features a full schedule on both Saturday and Sunday. She worked on the bicentennial in Massachusetts in 1976, and I think she was interested in bringing that out here.” The annual Civil War Days transforms Huntington Beach Central Park into a battlefield campground that depicts life in war as hundreds of reenactors play on both sides of the divide. ![]() “When she moved out here, she wanted to kind of continue that tradition. and I think she felt surrounded by American history in Massachusetts,” Darrell Rivers said. “My grandmother was from Lexington, Mass. ![]()
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