The Salem Zouaves

We will participate in the Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Saturday 12 May 2018.  We’ll be set up on the front lawn of the Waltham Public Library all day on Saturday, and we’ll give periodic demonstrations of manual-of-arms and bayonet drill.  Time and inclination permitting, there may also be nineteenth-century fencing and visits from some of our favorite 1860s ladies and civilian gentlemen.  Come visit us!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms and bayonet drills on video, and broom drill—an actual period practice—live, at Smith College’s ConBust ’18, on Sunday, March 25, 2018 (short notice, I know) at 12:00 noon in Seelye Hall room 106.  In addition, we have members involved in programming throughout the weekend, including speaking at the Writing Believable Fight Scenes panel at 9:00 am Saturday and  demonstrating historical swordplay in the Swordswomen through the Ages demonstration at 11:00 Saturday morning.  And we’ll appear as our seventeenth-century selves at 10:00 am Sunday.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms drill for the rifled musket, bayonet-fencing drill, and saber drill at Arisia ’18, on Sunday 14 January 2017 at 10:30 am in the Otis conference room.  A few of our members will also be sitting on panels about historical costume and writing fight scenes, as well as demonstrating historical combat and critiquing historical combat in video games.  For more information, check our schedules on line.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Light Infantry (Salem Zouaves), as is our annual custom, will march in the Nahant and Lynn Memorial Day parades on Monday 30 May 2016.  The Nahant parade steps off at 9:30 am, and the Lynn parade steps off at 1:30 pm.

We will participate in the Watch City Steampunk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Saturday 13 May 2017.  We’ll be set up on the front lawn of the Waltham Public Library all day on Saturday, and we’ll give periodic demonstrations of manual-of-arms and bayonet drill.  Time and inclination permitting, there may also be nineteenth-century fencing and visits from some of our favorite 1860s ladies and civilian gentlemen.  Come visit us!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms and bayonet drills on video, and broom drill—an actual period practice—live, at Smith College’s ConBust ’17, on Saturday, March 25, 2017 (short notice, I know) at 11:00 am in Seelye Hall room 312.  In addition, we have members involved in programming throughout the weekend, including speaking at the Writing Believable Fight Scenes panel at 4:00 pm Saturday and  demonstrating historical swordplay in the Swordswomen through the Ages demonstration at 1:30 Sunday afternoon.  And we’ll appear as our seventeenth-century selves at 2:00 pm Saturday.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Zouaves will demonstrate manual-of-arms drill for the rifled musket and bayonet-fencing drill at Arisia ’17, on Saturday 14 January 2017 at 4:00 pm in the Commonwealth Ballroom.  A few of our members will also be sitting on panels about historical costume and writing fight scenes, as well as demonstrating historical combat and critiquing historical combat in video games.  For more information, check our schedules on line.  We hope to see you there!

The Salem Zouaves will participate in a living-history encampment as part of the city of Lynn’s Civil War programs.  The encampment will take place on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June on Lynn Common.  Saturday’s program will be followed by a franks-and-beans supper at Lynn’s historic G.A.R. hall:

The General Frederick W. Lander Post No. 5 Grand Army of the Republic Museum, at 58 Andrew Street in Lynn, will be the site of a G.A.R. Bean Supper, hosted by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.  This fund-raising event recreates monthly bean suppers that were held by the G.A.R. for area veterans in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.  As an added bonus, the Hall will be open for tours during the supper.  Tickets are $10 per person, and are available at the door.

Most of us, I think, will be there.  Join us!