9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Bellefonte Waterfront
Camp Songer Encampment
Civil War Reenactors
Visitors to Camp Songer will be able to see and talk with reenactors portraying the men who fought the Civil War. Camp Songer contains an artillery battery, an infantry company, a lone Confederate, a doctor, and an embalmer. There will also be displays of cooking utensils, Civil War era money, and children’s games and toys of the period.
2:00 PM
St. John’s Episcopal Church
RUTH FERGUSON
The Abrahamic Endorsement of Peace
The earliest archeological evidence of warfare dates back over 15,000 years and historians have been writing about war for over five millennia. Is there an antidote to our fatal tendency toward systematic slaughter? Religion, despite its occasional inducements to bloody conflict, often stands against our worst instincts. The Very Reverend Ruth Ferguson has recruited a Muslim, a Jew, and a Quaker to develop an interfaith service interrogating the power of faith against violence. When she has the details, they will appear here. The service is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 3rd at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
3:00 PM
Union Cemetery
CHUCK YOUNG
Union Cemetery Tour
The 2026 Union Cemetery tour during Bellefonte’s Civil War weekend will include about a dozen of the Civil War soldiers buried on its grounds. The only repeats from last year’s tour will be Governor Andrew G. Curtin, General James A. Beaver and Medal of Honor recipient George W. Harris. The tour will last about one hour and will be the same each day of the weekend. Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather as we will go rain or shine. If the weather is very hot, please bring your own water and stay hydrated.
Enter the cemetery by passing through the arch in the Gatehouse at 334 East Howard Street. Proceed to the top of the hill and follow the road until you reach the flagpole and park on the grass along the road.