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REVOLUTION AT PRINCETON EVENT-ARTILLERY & SHAKESPEARE'S AS YOU LIKE IT

Revolution at Princeton
Event
, Saturday, September 28, 2013 –

1:00-8:15 pm: Artillery Demonstrations, Shakespeare’s As you Like It by the Princeton Shakespeare Co., Music, Battlefield
Life, Food, and Lots More; at the Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

Come out to the Battlefield! Learn about General Washington’s Strategy to win the Battle of Princeton and
find out why the Battle was such a critical turning point of the American
Revolution. 

See artillery demonstrations and learn more about the important role of artillery at the Battle of Princeton (1-4:30pm).  See a play, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a pastoral comedy and love story, presented by the Princeton


Shakespeare Co., a student group on the Princeton University campus. The play
will be preceded by music by John Burkhalter of the Practicioners of Musick and poetry by performing artist John Smith playing Philip Freneau, a major poet of the American Revolution (4:30pm – Play begins at 6pm). Visit the Thomas Clarke House where General Mercer died.  Learn

about plans for its further restoration. 

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Enjoy yourself!  Take a guided
tour of the Battlefield – hear in detail from study of original accounts how
the battle progressed. Learn about Battlefield Podcasts. See a Princeton
Photography Club exhibit.  Visit the

Princeton Battlefield Society’s Education Table, it’s Young Patriots’ Table,
it’s Artifacts Table presented by PBS Board Member Iain Haight-Ashton, and a Booksellers Table.  Also see demonstrations of camp life – cooking, laundry, medicine & herbs, and
lap-looming & knitting.  Food vendor,
toy soldier vendor, and much, much more. 

If you are attending the play, please bring a lawn chair and
flashlight.  Free.  Sunday is rain date. For more information
visit www.ThePrincetonBattlefieldSociety.com.


For a Ghost Tour following the play go to www.princteontourcompany.com for

tickets.

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