Sounds of Freedom

As I promised in the last post, here is the Fort Washington Cannon Firing event. I always enjoy seeing these, and by now, I understand the various steps. You can see from my photos how far away the reenactors were from the crowd. These photos were taken with Zoom to allow me to see more details. You can also see in the top horizontal photo that there is a small box well behind the cannon. This is where the ordinance is kept, and there is quite a production of someone being told to fetch it, taking it out of the box and putting it in a satchel, and then walking the few feet to the cannon, where it is removed from the satchel and fired. The boom is always a loud shock for me, even though I know it's coming.

For this layout, I wanted to utilize the black shadow border and die cut I bought for Civil War pages. The border includes horses pulling the cannon, and the die cut is the rammer. Again, brick paper would work against the photos, but a dark red paper (I think this is called cinnamon, and it's the last 2 pages I have of this color) gives the impression of brick without the distracting detail. To add a little military flavor, I chose the old CM border maker cartridge, Chevrons. I punched them in navy blue cardstock and then placed a bronze shimmer piece behind it to make the sergeant stripes. A few items from the stash provided the titles. I used the new ivory write strips for journaling to make it easier to see on the page.