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Adults, who like history, also get in role. They practice and do demonstrations all year, but particularly when our town has its famous reenactment on April 19th each year.
One of these Minute Men came to show us his musket, authentically researched clothes, and gun powder. The powder is called black powder and he said it got into everything. The colonists had to clean their guns after they shot them, and it took three minutes to load a musket.
He fired his musket without powder. We could see the flint spark. His musket was very heavy.