This beautiful video captures the solidity and fragility of our French Colonial Fort de Chartres, a stone fort built in the 1750’s, located in the Illinois country. The imagery brings home the realization, in a very real physical way, why we treasure and recognize the honor of interpreting and participating in the events held at this unique Illinois State Historic Site. You have an opportunity to visit and share in an upcoming COLONIAL TRADE FAIRE AND MUSKET AND RIFLE FROLIC, to be held this weekend, APRIL 10, 11 & 12. 
Mes amis, mon mari et moi, will present a bake oven demostration this Saturday during this weekend’s Trade Faire. And please stop by and visit Sunday late morning through the early afternoon in the jardin potager located behind the bake oven. Come and view the Spring changes that are emerging in the garden. I will have a limited number of heirloom seed packets to share with interested visitors along with information about French colonial gardening in North America and in the Illinois country. A glimpse of the bake oven and the jardin potager at Fort de Chartres appears at the 4:20 min. mark in this lovely video by Eric Macke, shared from Dave and Debbie Horne’s Fort de Chartres Store FB site:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJBdtMYTHw&feature=youtu.be
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