Historical gathering
VISITORS DINED ON THE lawn of Fairfield's historic Moody-Bradley House during the History Club's annual pilgrimage. A luncheon, vendors, melodrama and fashion show were all part of the 39th annual Queen of the Trinity Star Pilgrimage hosted Saturday by Fairfield History Club.
The event, a fundrasiser for the club, was held at the historic club-owned Moody-Bradley House in Fairfield.
The pilgrimage started with a luncheon on the lawn of the plantationstyle house that was built in 1860 by Col. W.L. Moody and sold after the Civil War to his father-inlaw, F.M. Bradley.
A children's style show was held on the front steps with fashions provided by Kennedy's Korner of Fairfield.
The melodrama, a part of the pilgrimage every year, gave a fictionalized account of Freestone county starting just prior to the Civil War with Col. Moody's arrival in Fairfield.
Fairfield high school student Morgan Fuller, daughter of Mike and Jina Fuller, played some selections on the fiddle.
Vendors and a demonstration blacksmith set up shop on the house lawn.
PROVIDING VISITORS WITH replicas of Civil War era goods from jewelry to canteens was suttler Ray Maust, right. Visiting the suttler shop was Civil War reenactor Chris McCulloch. The Val Verde Battery of the Johnson-Sayers- Nettles Sons of Confederate Veterans camp fired a cannon salute at the end of the event.


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