America’s 250 Cast Iron Cooking
Come celebrate America’s 250th birthday as you walk back in time in our to observe, and possibly sample, historical cast iron cooking from our nation’s past. State park educators from North Central and Western PA will be dressed in period clothing preparing period dishes that relate back to their park from our nation’s founding to the late 1800’s. This is a one-time-only new park event that you will NOT want to miss! Located at our River Cabin area, just upstream from our new River Pavilion along River Road about 1 mile up-river from the RT36 Cooksburg Bridge.
Saturday, September 19, 2026 11am to 3pm
Friday, May 22 from 800-900pm
‘An Evening with President Lincoln and the First Lady’ Please bring your chairs and blankets and meet
at the Ridge Camp Park Amphitheater for an evening with Mr. & Mrs Lincoln, learning how they met
before his tumultuous presidential career. Conducted by John King, lifetime member of Association of
Lincoln Presenters, and 2013 look-alike contest winner at the Shriver House Museum in Gettysburg.
Saturday, May 23 from 900-1030am
‘Lincoln’s Inaugural Trip to Washington’ Join President Abraham Lincoln and the First Lady as they
reminisce about his trying cross country inaugural railroad trip across America to become the 16th
President of the United States. Please bring your camp chairs and meet at the Log Cabin Inn
Environmental Learning Classroom.
Saturday, May 23 from 1130am-1230pm
Paul Stillman and Dave Clark as ‘The North Meets South’ Come see the Civil War through a New York
regimental line soldier and a rebel of the Army of Northern Virginia. Please bring your camp chairs and
meet at the Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom.
Saturday, May 23 from 100-200pm
M. Luthringer as a‘1750s French Marine’ We are looking for a few good men to learn how to march and
fight for King Louis. Be prepared to make your mark. Two opposable teeth required. Vive le Roi!!!
Please meet at the Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom.
Saturday, May 23 from 300-430pm Paul Stillman as a ‘Seneca Indian’ A Native American visits us
from the past on his trip from New York as he travels south along the historic Olean Trail. Please bring
your camp chairs and meet at the Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom where he will be
preparing for his trip.
Saturday, May 23 from 800-900pm
‘An Evening with Ben Franklin’ by Paul Stillman One of the founding fathers of our country. Science,
glass music, and philosophy are only part of Doctor Franklin’s life. Join the elderly statesman as he
reminisces about his involvement in the French & Indian forts of the 1750’s. Please bring your chairs &
blankets and meet at the Ridge Camp Park Amphitheater.
Sunday, May 24 from 100-200pm
Paul Stillman and Dave Clark as ‘Patriot Meets Loyalist: Friends No More!’ It was called a
Revolutionary War, but it was also a civil war; family against family, friend against friend. Please bring
your camp chairs and meet at the Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom.
Sunday, May 24 from 230-330pm
Paul Stillman as a ‘Colonial Craftsman’ Learn how things were made during the early part of the 18 th
century during a quill and bamboo pen fabrication workshop. Please bring your camp chairs at meet at the
Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom.
Sunday, May 24 from 400-530pm
‘Colonial Life as a Child’ by the Noel Family Join the Noels as they discuss educational practices of
Colonial America, the daily chores of children, and the games they played. You will have the opportunity
to write with a quill pen, gather eggs and the day’s water supply, walk on stilts, play graces, trap ball, and
dress up. Bring your kids and camp chairs to the Log Cabin Inn Environmental Learning Classroom for a
Colonial education experience with your kids in mind.
Sunday, May 24 from 800-930pm
Ray Owen, GRAMMY nominated singer, songwriter, and storyteller, will be presenting 'Hats Off to
America’ at the Ridge Camp Park Amphitheater. Take a musical journey through history with a crew of
colorful characters wearing an array of period hats that step out of history and onto the stage. A spirited
American odyssey that ventures from the steam engine to the search engine, the Buffalo chips to the
microchips, engaging the past to enlighten our future. Don’t forget your chairs and blankets!