Battle of Blackjack

Last weekend I went on a campout with the Boy Scouts to Blackjack 

Battlefield near Baldwin City, Ks. We actually got to reenact on the Battlefield

where the soldiers fought.

Now for a little background on the story...

In 1854, the U.S. Government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which gave the

people the right to choose whether they wanted to be a free-state, or

a slave-state. On May 21, 1856, Henry Pate, along with 750 Pro-slavery

men sacked Lawrence Ks, and destroyed the Free-state Hotel. 

On June 2, 1856, John Brown and 29 others attacked Pate and his men at

Blackjack creek near Baldwin City. Pate had already captured 2 of John Brown's

sons which probably just made him mad. After 3 hours of fighting and shooting 

Pate's horses, the white flag went up and Pate surrendered, and John Brown won.

More about the campout. We went for two days and nights. We had so much fun!
I can't wait till next time.

 Breakfast anyone?

Maple leaf festival

Last weekend I helped the Boy Scouts with the annual Maple Leaf 

Festival in Baldwin City, Ks. Every year thirty to forty thousand people come there 

over the weekend. There are craft booths, bake sales, and fundraisers. Food
included roasted corn, turkey legs, funnel cakes, hot dogs, and bratwursts.

 I helped the Boy Scouts park cars, and pick up trash.
  There were tons of trash cans and dumpsters all over downtown
Baldwin City. Some other Boy Scouts and I went around and
replaced the filled trash bags with empty ones, and put the filled ones
in the dumpsters. Parking was 5 dollars at the Boy Scout cabin, and the school,
both of which the Boy scouts ran. We raised a ton of money which we (the Boy Scouts)
will use to go on camping trips. Later this week I will be going on a campout
and will be doing a pre-Civil War reenactment of the battle of Blackjack.