By SARAH JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT Most of Bristol was clad in shorts and tank tops Saturday, as the heat approached 95 degrees by noon. As the St. Joseph’s Church bells rang for a wedding, a curious bunch of people in wool and layers milled around the Federal Hill Green, speaking in old accents, and tending to a camp straight out of the Civil War. The Bristol Historical Society, in cooperation with its Program Committee, brought the Civil War Living History Encampment to the Green in honor of the war’s 150th anniversary. The Program Committee at BHS is spearheaded by Tom LaPorte. “The 14th Connecticut Company, re-enacting the encampment today, was designated in the past by Governor (M. Jodi) Rell in the state to celebrate the Civil War and have the community see how military and civilians interacted and lived,” LaPorte said. “The actors here speak as a person in the 1800s would have. The people of Bristol get to meet, talk to, and learn about the wartime in an accurate way.” The actors in Company F just returned from over a week in Gettysburg. What some people might not know is that ending up on the Green was also a historically [...]
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