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The Colloquium (2025)
Friday, June 6
1 pm – 1:45 pm
Colloquium Reception with special guests:
General Grant & General Sherman
American Philatelic Society
2 pm – 3:15 pm
Scott Mingus
Flames Beyond Gettysburg:
The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863
American Philatelic Society
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Derek Maxfield
Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War
American Philatelic Society
5 pm – 6:30 pm
Keynote by Chris Mackowski
Fire in the Wilderness
American Philatelic Society
Weekend Events*
Events marked (T) require a purchase of a one-time $10 ticket for access to all ticketed events for the Weekend. Access to ticketed events is included for Colloquium attendees. Train tickets sold separately for Sunday’s train ride.
All other events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Friday, June 6
4 pm – 5 pm
Remembering Centre County Civil War Veterans Buried Elsewhere
Connie Cole
American Philatelic Society
5 pm – 6 pm
Tour of the Union Cemetery with a Civil War Focus
W. Charles Young
Union Cemetery
6 pm – 7 pm
Reenactment of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Mike Kinney
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Saturday, June 7
9 am – 9:20 am
Opening Ceremony
Centre County Courthouse
10 am – 5 pm
Camp Songer Open to Visitors
Civil War Encampment
Bellefonte Waterfront
10 am – 12:30 pm
Book Sale (T)
Civil War and More Bookstore
American Philatelic Society
10 am – 11 am
“The Great Battle”: Newspaper Editorials about the 1860 Presidential Campaign (T)
Dr. Ford Risley
American Philatelic Society
10 am – 11:10 am
First Lady of Pennsylvania Katherine Wilson Curtin’s 1880s Dress:
Katherine Wilson Curtin Tent 62
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War: Karen Hazel & Sue Kellerman
American Philatelic Society
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Pennsylvania’s Split Personality in the Civil War (T)
Dr. William Alan Blair
American Philatelic Society
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Book Sale
Civil War and More Bookstore
American Philatelic Society
1 pm – 2 pm
Civil War Q&A
American Philatelic Society
1 pm – 2 pm
What does Talleyrand Park have to do with the Underground Railroad?
Connie Cole
American Philatelic Society
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Governor Curtin and the War
Matt Maris
American Philatelic Society
4 pm – 5:30 pm
Reenactment of Frederick Douglass’ Speech: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Ph.D.
St. John’s Episcopal Church
4 pm – 6 pm
“Now We Stand by Each Other Always” (T)
A Historical Docudrama about the friendship between Generals Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman
Rudely Stamp’d Historical Impressions
American Philatelic Society
6:15 pm – 7 pm
Band Concert
Coburn Brass
Gazebo, Talleyrand Park
Sunday, June 8
10 am – 3 pm
Camp Songer Open to Visitors
Civil War Encampment
Bellefonte Waterfront
10 am – 12:45 pm
Rail Excursion to Curtin Mansion (Train Ticket Required)
Bellefonte Train Station, Eagle Iron Works, and Curtin Village
On Sunday morning, June 8, 2025, in association with the Civil War Weekend in Bellefonte, the Roland Curtin Foundation will make a special presentation of local Civil War history at Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Village for visitors transported to Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Village by the Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society on a scenic “American Pioneer” journey. The three-hour excursion to and from Pennsylvania’s longest-lived iron plantation will include an on-site program describing the dramatic experiences of some of the 30+ Curtin Village men who served in the Union Army, while also offering an hour-long opportunity for touring historic Eagle Iron Works and Curtin Village, with its 1830s ironmaster’s mansion, Eagle Furnace complex, and Workers Village. Learn how Curtin Villagers reacted to the outbreak of the War Between the States, and the ways their lives were touched by four years of war.
2 pm -2:30 pm
Interdenominational Church Service
Yearning for Peace in a World of War
The Very Reverend Ruth Ferguson
St. John’s Episcopal Church
2 pm – 3 pm
Tour of the Union Cemetery with a Civil War Focus
W. Charles Young
Union Cemetery
3:30 pm – 4 pm
Closing Ceremony
Union Cemetery
Civil War Weekend in Bellefonte 