The Catskill Chronicle

NARROWSBURG, NY (May 13, 2013) – Eighteenth century folk musician Linda Russell will be among the highlights of a three-day Market Fair when Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History opens for the 2013 season Memorial Day weekend.

Ms. Russell, who explores history through music, served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of George Washington’s Presidential inauguration.

Accompanying herself on hammered and mountain dulcimers, guitar, pennywhistle and limberjack, she will bring life to ballads, broadsides, love songs, marches, drinking songs and dance tunes common to the early settlers of the Upper Delaware River valley.

In New York, Ms. Russell has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has recorded eight albums of traditional and popular music of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries.

Joining her at the Colonial Market Fair will be “General Mad Anthony Wayne” (for whom Wayne County, PA is named,) members of the National Living History and Rendezvous Foundation, Navasing Long rifles, Brigade of the American Revolution, and dozens of other reenactors, artisans, and sutlers demonstrating – and selling – their period-correct crafts and wares.

Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 25 and Monday, May 27; and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 26.

Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History is located along the New York State Scenic Byway at 6615 State Route 97, Narrowsburg, New York 12764. For further information, call Museum Director Debra Conway at 845-252-6660.

There is still some room for additional craftspeople and sutlers. (Must be French & Indian or Revolutionary War era.) There is no fee, but you must bring your own set up. And you must pre-register at: fortdelaware@hotmail.com.