A Living History Weekend will be held at the National World War One Memorial on Saturday and Sunday September 14-15, 2024
The Memorial is located on Pennsylvania Ave between 14th and 15th Streets NW in Washington DC-two blocks from the White House.
The Living History Weekend follows the First Illumination ceremony to dedicate the new sculpture “A Soldier’s Journey” by Sabin Howard at the memorial on Friday September 13 at 7:15 pm
Information can be found at https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/
The event is free and open to the public
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
9:00AM- 5:00PM Displays by WWI Re-enactors, Hello Girls, National Mobile WWI Museum, WWI Vehicles, displays
9:30AM The Hello Girls-America’s First Women Soldiers–Katelyn O’Brien
10:00AM Concert by Tom Callinan Connecticut’s 1st State Troubadour
10:30AM The Harlem Hellfighters-Marvin-Alonzo Geer & Ari Lopez Wei
11:00AM Concert by the AEF Headquarters Band Brass Quintet
11:45AM Menin Gate Buglers “Last Post”
12:00PM The U.S. Marine Corps 1917-1919-Marine Corps Historical Company
12:30PM Concert by Tom Callinan-Connecticut’s 1st State Troubadour
1:00PM “General John Blackjack Pershing” Presentation by Chas Rittenhouse
1:30PM American Doughboy kit and equipment 1917-1919, gear and equipment demo–East Coast Doughboys
2:00PM One Man Play “A Soldier Journey Home” Douglas Taurel
3:00PM Edmund D. Potter, PhD, The Citizen Soldiers Education Foundation
3:25PM American Gold Star Mothers Wreath Ceremony-Patti Elliot, National President
3:30PM Concert by the AEF Headquarters Band
4:45PM TBA Wreath Ceremony
5:00PM The Last Post and Daily Taps
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
9:00AM- 5:00PM Displays by WWI Re-enactors, Hello Girls, National Mobile WWI Museum, WWI Vehicles, displays
9:00AM TBA
9:30AM Marie Edmee LeRoux, The story of a Hello Girl-Catherine Bourgin, granddaughter
10:00AM The U.S. Navy in WWI/ Yeoman (F) Women join the Navy U.S.S. Olympia Living History Crew Navy History Heritage Command Laura Adie
10:30AM Wallace’s Circus, the 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy Edward Wittkofski, U.S. Army
11:00AM 1917, America enters the War, Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of “WWI New York: A Guide to the City’s Enduring Ties to the Great War”
11:30AM Trucking, transportation, teaching 2 million men to drive-John Torkos, Hackettstown, NJ, Mobility Executive, Great War Association Past President.
12:00PM Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 3rd US Infantry
12:15PM Concert by the Community Bands of Westmoreland County
1:15PM Presentation by The Menin Gate Buglers
1:30PM American Doughboy kit and equipment 1917-1919, gear and equipment demo– East Coast Doughboys
2:00PM “General John Blackjack Pershing” Presentation by Chas Rittenhouse
3:00PM The Yanks Are Coming” Band music of WWI (1917-1919)-Jari Villanueva
3:30PM TBA
4:00PM Concert by the AEF Headquarters Band Brass Quintet
4:45PM New Zealand Embassy Wreath Laying
5:00PM The Last Post, Rouse and Daily Taps
DISPLAYS AT THE MEMORIAL
The Doughboy Foundation
Visit Flanders
National Mobile WWI Museum
Marine Corps Historical Company
Katelyn O’Brien Hello Girls-America’s First Women Soldiers
U.S.S. Olympia Living History Crew
Navy History Heritage Command
American Allies, British & French display
John Van Vliet, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Tom C. Carton, Royal Sussex Regiment
VAD nurses Sharon Van Vliet and Athena Wu
Homefront, U.S. Food Administration, Sandra Dunlap USN
Phonograph & Records, Peter Leonard, NYC
Y.M.C.A. Display, Peter Tragni, U.S. Army
Homefront, U.S. Food Administration, Sandra Dunlap USN
Phonograph & Records, Peter Leonard, NYC
Y.M.C.A. Display, Peter Tragni, U.S. Army
Plus Historical Collections:
Robert Stitham Collection, painted helmets, uniforms, certificates
John Torkos Collection of, named uniforms, maps, equipment
James Loder Commissioned War Artists Display
Raymond Pirus Display of Collar Disk, Quartermaster Corps
Alder Fehler Medical Corps and contract surgeons
Dr. John Bradley (LtCol) WWI Doctors
Dr. Brian Petruskie Veterinary Corps and horse history
