October-November events to finish out 2025

Here is the final list for events that run through November to finish out 2025. If you have a living history camping event planned for this year that isn't on this list, please let me know by emailing Vicki@ReenactorChronicles.com.

Oct. 9-12, 2025 - Harvest Moon Rendezvous, Infirmary Mound Park, 4351 Lancaster Road, Granville, Ohio. Contact Mat Stickles 740-403-1372, mathew.stickles@gmail.com, or Jason Vermilion, 740-258-8962, vermilionjason@yahoo.com, Facebook page. Setup is Thursday. Rendezvous starts at 9 a.m. Thursday. Camp fee is $10. Vendors camp free. Trade blankets welcome. Public days 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Walk-in shooters welcome, but period dress is required. Rifle and smoothbore woodswalk, hawk & knife, archery, fire starting with re-entry, pistol match is blanket shoot. Saturday evening potluck with auction to follow. No pets.

Oct. 10-11, 2025 - Early American Trades Fair, Log Cabin Shop, 8010 Lafayette Rd, Lodi, Ohio 44254. Contact 330-948-1082, logcabin@logcabinahop.com, Facebook page, www.logcabinshop.com. Visitors are invited to meet with and learn from skilled artisans as they work. Handcrafted items for sale and trade. Free admission. Food available. Open noon-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.

Oct. 10-12, 2025 - Feast of the Hunters’ Moon, Tippecanoe County Historical Association, Fort Ouiatenon Historical Park, 3921 S. River Road, West Lafayette, Indiana. Contact feast@tippecanoehistory.org, 765-476-8411, www.feastofthehuntersmoon.org, Facebook page. Juried event: 1717-1791. Friday school day. Public hours 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. No pets. More than 40 recreated period foods. Musicians, interpreters, military reenactors and Native American groups.​

Oct. 10-13, 2025 - Blue Ridge Rifles Fundevous Blanket Shoot and Camp, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. Contact BRRifles@gmail.com, Facebook page. Gate opens at noon Friday. Camp fee $20 per person ages 18 and older; ages 17 and younger free with an adult. Primitive and modern camping (no hookups). Shooters should provide a blanket prize worth $20 or more; no cash. Also archery and hawk & knife for bragging rights. Primitive attire encouraged.

Oct. 11-12, 2025 - Brigade Napoleon, Fort Meigs, 29100 W. River Road, Perrysburg, Ohio. Contact 419-874-4121, www.fortmeigs.org/events, Facebook page. Juried event: Napoleonic Wars. Registration required.

Oct. 17-19, 2025 - Girty's Town Rendezvous, north of the High Street bridge along the canal, St. Marys, Ohio. Contact Harold Curry, 419-295-2710, hcurry23@gmail.com, Facebook page. Camp fee $20. Beginners and veterans welcome. Nature walk Sunday. Archery and hawk & knife competitions. Blacksmith available. Camp dinner Saturday.

Oct. 17-19, 2025 - ​Salt Festival, Big Bone Lick State Historic Site, 3380 Beaver Road, Union, Kentucky 41091. Contact claire.kolkmeyer@ky.gov to receive an application, claire.kolkmeyer@ky.gov, Facebook page. Early setup is Thursday. School day Friday. Open to public 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.

Oct. 17-19, 2025 - Thunder Creek Long Rifles Annual Rendezvous, east of Martinsville, Indiana, on Bear Creek Road, Morgantown, Indiana. Contact 812-785-6166, thundercreek1972@gmail.com, https://thundercreeklongrifles.org. Setup Thursday. Competitions include archery, rifle, smoothbore, pistol, hawk & knife.

Oct. 17-19, 2025 - Fall Rendezvous, Dogg Clan Muzzleloaders, 323 N. State Line Road, Darlington, Pennsylvania. Contact Papa John, 330-853-4522, or Dan, 727-312-6713, Facebook page. Take your own drinking water. Shoots. Public day Saturday.

Oct. 17-19, 2025 - Frenchmen's Frolic, Macktown Living History, 2221 Freeport Road, Rockton, Illinois 61072. Contact Mike Bost, 815-978-8090, http://macktownlivinghistory.com, Facebook page. Seminars, workshops, games, shoots, hawk & knife, boules tournament. Traders and trade blankets welcome. Camp fee $35. Set up after 10 a.m. Wednesday. Friday setup after 2 p.m.

Oct. 18-19, 2025 - Historic Fall Trade Fair at Fort Piqua, Johnston Farm, 9845 N. Hardin Road, Piqua, Ohio. Contact Laura Supringer via Johnston Farm & Indian Agency, www.facebook.com/johnstonfarm. Event's Facebook page. Juried event: 1742-1862, early Ohio. Applications due by Sept. 1. Demonstrations, food, follow an ox team as they do last-minute fall chores, talk to militia about what it was like to be in the American Army from the Revolution through the Civil War, visit with a traveling artist and learn about the beauty of the 18th century, canal boat rides, shopping.

Oct. 23-26, 2025 - Fall Rendezvous, Greene County Fish & Game, 1538 Union Road, Xenia, Ohio 45385. Contact Brian Lavery, 937-241-8327. Facebook page. Camp fee $20 per family; $15 per single; $10 for walk-in shooter. No extra fee for traders. Competitions include shoots, archery, hawk & knife, pastry toss, potluck Saturday evening. Trick-or-treat for kids.

Oct. 24-26, 2025 - Colonial Market Days, Abner Longley Park, 1601 Longley Dr., Lebanon, Indiana 46052. Contact 317-762-0117, Facebook page, https://colonialmarketdays.com for application form. Colonial merchants, demonstrators and craftsmen. Military units and tacticals. Entertainment such as jugglers, street performers, magic and music. Friday school day.

Oct. 25-26, 2025 - Fall Rendezvous, Patoka Valley Long Rifles, 1579 E. Logtown Road, Winslow, Indiana 47598. Contact pvlr.info@gmail.com, Facebook page.

Nov. 1-2, 2025 - Fort de Chartres Winter Rendezvous, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois 62277. Contact 618-284-7230, lesamisdufortdechartres@gmail.com, www.fortdechartres.us. Features 18th and early 19th-century camp life 1700-1820. Muzzleloader woods walk shooting competition, hand-made crafts, period music and food. Soldiers, trappers, traders and Native Americans.

Nov. 6-9, 2025 - Pathways Women's Gathering, Fort La Buse, Bellville, Ohio. Women only. Beginners welcome. Contact Facebook group. Inside accommodations available by reservation. Plenty of space for tents. Registration by Oct. 1 strongly encouraged. Camp fee is $30, or $35 at the gate. Setup Thursday; no early arrivals. Seminars and workshops. Shoot, archery, hawk & knife, history quiz and other competitions. Food. Raffle donations requested.

Nov. 8, 2025 - Antique Arms Show, Franklin County Fairgrounds, 4100 Columbia St., Hilliard, Ohio. Contact Mark Barnhill for table information, mb-1955@hotmail.com. Sponsored by the Association of Ohio Longrifle Collectors, www.AOLRC.com. Kentucky rifles and accoutrements; weapons built before 1898, Indian artifacts, Civil War weapons, special display of Pennsylvania rifles by Greg Williams. Free parking. Food available. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $5 per person ages 13 and older. Ages 12 and younger free.

Nov. 29-30, 2025 - Michigan Antique Arms Collectors Inc., Madison Place Events Center, 876 Horace Brown Drive, Madison Heights, Michigan 48071. Contact Greg Zemsta, 248-556-6590, mauserman98@hotmail.com, www.michiganantiquearms.com. Guns and accoutrements, Native artifacts, knives, relics and similar items. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Members admitted at 8 a.m. Admission fee $8.