Weekend Fun

Weekends in Westmoreland county are for festivals. One of my assignments read, "Kids doing fun and/or violent activities at Youth Field Day" (there were firearm demonstrations). Another, "Festival-goers doing something fun."



Mary Person, 10, from Latrobe, examines a black rat snake as siblings Jesse (12) and Amber (16) Simms, both from Derry, look on at Youth Field Day in Mammoth Park, in Mt. Pleasant, Pa., on July 18, 2009. The free event, sponsored by Westmoreland County law enforcement officers, the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the county's Department of Parks and Recreation, invited kids ages 9-15 to shoot firearms, play with snakes and snapping turtles, and watch civil war re-enactors, with the goal of sparking interest in the outdoors.
(Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Tribune-Review)



Historic reenactor Ron Hobbs, from Jeannette, holds his daughter, Eirene Hobbs, age 9 months, during the reenactment of a session a Colonial court at Historic Hanna's Town on July 18, 2009. Court sessions recreated actual 18th century cases heard at Hanna?s Town, the site of the first English courts west of the Allegheny Mountains.
(Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Tribune-Review)