Pictured is bowl carver, Tim Guy. Photo provided by Michael Dragoo.

News Release

LIGONIER — This year’s Five Medals at The Trace takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, through 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23.

The event will be held at Stone’s Trace, a privately-owned historical park located just south of Ligonier, at the intersection of US 33 and SR 5.

Five Medals is a living history educational experience geared toward families, providing an opportunity to become immersed in this area’s history. The event spans the mid-1600s up through the War of 1812.

Pictured is Valerie Skinner, an artist and re-enactor. Photo provided by Michael Dragoo.

Along with holiday shopping opportunities and early American crafts galore, visitors will find several food options, along with parking at West Noble High School.

Five Medals at The Trace features nearly 200 re-enactors and demonstrators, including shopping opportunities with early American merchants, live Colonial music, blacksmithing, tin smithing, woodworking, open-fire cooking and baking, soap making, colonial beekeeping, jewelry, natural fabric dyeing, spinning and wool carding, basket weaving, pottery, and even a chocolatier, all ongoing throughout the event.

Attendees will have the opportunity to introduce themselves to Anthony Wayne, watch black powder flintlock and artillery demonstrations and interact with participants in the woodland Native, French civilian and military, British military and Colonial/U.S. military encampments.

Five Medals at The Trace is presented by Five Medals Living History Inc., a 501(C)3 for-public-benefit, 501(C)3 non-profit organization.