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Living history highlights Memorial Day weekend in Lewes
Events took place on museum grounds and at Canalfront Park, where re-enactors – such as these Royal Marines – camped out over the Memorial Day weekend. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
May 31, 2017
Tom Russell of Annapolis portrays a British Royal Marine of the First Company, Second Battalion, the unit that shelled Lewes in 1813. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Re-enactors from a variety of military units camp out in Lewes Canalfront Park over the weekend. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
A World War II-era flag welcomes visitors to Canalfront Park. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
British Royal Marines are in camp as part of A Sailor’s Life For Me weekend at Canalfront Park in downtown Lewes. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Kyle Dalton of Edgewater, Md,, left, and Buzz Mooney of Hagerstown, Md., demonstrate navigational aids used throughout the years. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Kyle Dalton shows how a backstaff is used for navigation to measure the altitude of the sun. The instrument has been used for more than four centuries. Dalton, who lives in Annapolis, Md., is public programs administrator for London Town and Gardens near Annapolis. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Kyle Dalton of Annapolis, Md., demonstrates how a cross-staff is used for navigation. The instrument dates back to the 16th century. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Brian Kendall of Newark, left, and James Koury of Philadelphia are dressed as World War II Soviet naval infantrymen. Men were pulled off ships to fight the ground war during the German invasion of Russia. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Robbie Asplund of Richmond, Va., portrays a World War I German submariner. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Luke Clawson of Wilmington shows how a U.S. Navy warrant officer would have dressed during World War I. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Andrew Lyter of Lewes, left, British Royal Navy, and Matt Williamson of Wilmington, Royal Marines Light Infantry, are re-enactors from the British Sudan campaign. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Soviet naval infantryman James Koury demonstrates a weapon used by the Russians during World War II. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Re-enactors’ tents take over the center of Canalfront Park. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Visitors to Zwaanendael Museum’s Maritime Celebration try their hand at the traditional bottle game. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Pulling hard on black and tackle on the Zwaanedael Museum grounds are Grayson, left, and Gavin Charles of Lewes as they take part in the museum’s Maritime Celebration. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
Visitors get a chance to get up close and personal with living history encampments. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
The centerpiece of the sixth annual Maritime Celebration is the H.M.S. De Braak, an 18-gun British Navy ship that sunk in May 1798 in bad weather off the coast of Lewes in the Delaware Bay. A section of the hull was raised in August 1986. Tours were given of the hull throughout the weekend. A model of the ship greets visitors to the Zwaanendael Museum. RON MACARTHUR PHOTO
The Brits returned to Lewes during Zwaanendael Museum’s sixth annual Maritime Celebration, A Sailor’s Life for Me.
