Angel Island State Park will host "Gateway to the Pacific," a living history event, on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camp Reynolds.
Camp Reynolds on Angel Island State Park will host “Gateway to the Pacific,” a living history event, on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16. Photo by Joel Williams
Published: October, 2011
Angel Island State Park will host "Gateway to the Pacific," a living history event, on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camp Reynolds. The event highlights Angel Island and its role in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars of 1899-1902. It will feature re-enactors interpreting the lives of soldiers and civilians of the time. Event historians will be on hand to discuss details of the war, exhibit equipment and weapons, and demonstrate original hand-crank sewing machines and other home crafts of the era spotlighting civilian life back at home.
The U.S. Army Post Camp Reynolds, housed troops being deployed to locations throughout the Pacific in times of war, including the Philippine Islands, until the military left the Island during the early 1960s.
For more information about Angel Island, call (415) 435-5390 or visit www.parks.ca.gov/angelisland. For ferry information from Tiburon, contact Angel Island Ferry Company, (415) 435-2131, or visit www.angelislandferry.com. For ferry information from San Francisco, contact Blue and Gold Fleet, (415) 773-1188, www.blueandgoldfleet.com.
