Media Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2016
Contact: Ryan Downey, 757/728-5328
[email protected]
Seamus McGrann, 757/727-6841
[email protected]
Free Family Event ‘Soldiering Through Time’
Hosted at Hampton History Museum October 8
Hampton, VA - Through Living History, participatory activities and hands-on learning,
children will experience aspects of military life through the past several centuries at the
Hampton History Museum’s free family event “Soldiering Through Time” on Saturday,
October 8, 11:00 a.m. –
2:00 p.m.
Families will discover how changes in technology have affected warfare over the years
and learn why soldiers fought for various causes throughout American history. Children
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will meet and interact with Living History interpreters who will portray soldiers from the
Anglo-Powhatan wars, the American Revolutionary War, and World War I. In fun and
imaginative ways, participants can learn the causes of these conflicts and why the soldiers
they portray would fight.
By joining in musket and rifle drills and handling various types of equipment like that
used by soldiers in different times in history, children can experience first-hand what it
was like to be a soldier. There also will be coloring pages and other creative hands-on
activities for children to enjoy.
Reflecting the museum’s current exhibition “Weapons Platoon: A Marine’s Life in
Afghanistan,” children will be asked to write the answer the question “Why would you
become a soldier” in a notebook.
Family activities are free of charge and take place in the museum’s Great Hall and
courtyard continuously from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Admission to the museum galleries
is a special $3.00 per person reduced rate on 2nd Saturdays.
The Hampton History Museum is located at 120 Old Hampton Lane in downtown
Hampton. There is plenty of free parking in the garage across the street. For more
information, dial 757/727-1610.
Partially bordered by the Hampton Roads harbor and Chesapeake Bay, Hampton, with
the 344,000 sq. ft. Hampton Roads Convention Center and the award-winning Hampton
Coliseum, is located in the center of Coastal Virginia and the Hampton Roads
metropolitan area. Hampton is the site of America's first continuous English-speaking
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settlement, the site of the first arrival of Africans in English North America, and is home
to such visitor attractions as the Virginia Air & Space Center, Fort Monroe National
Monument, Hampton History Museum, harbor tours and cruises, Hampton University
Museum, The American Theatre, among others.
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