San Jacinto Day Festival and Battle Reenactment

From San Jacinto Day Festival and Battle Reenactment Website:

San Jacinto Day Festival
Saturday, April 18, 2020 ,10 am 5 pm
Festival Admission is Free with Parking pass
$10 Parking Pass per vehicle required Purchase at Eventbrite
oin thousands of proud Texans celebrating victory at San Jacinto and Texas Independence. This is a family-friendly Texas-size festival with music, games, demonstrations, food trucks and lots of history. Volunteers dressed in the period of the Texas Revolution make the events of April 1836 come alive.

Throughout the day there will be historical reenactments and demonstrations that are sure to thrill adults and children alike. Explore the Texan and Mexican camps and talk with reenactors who will share the true tales of the day.

A Timeline of the Texas Revolution, starting at the monument, facilitates a chronological progression of the San Jacinto Story. The major Texas Revolution events will be represented through demonstrations and representatives from Gonzalez, the Alamo, San Felipe de Austin, Goliad, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, culminating in the Battle of San Jacinto and capture of General Santa Anna.

The living history demonstration area along the north side of the San Jacinto Monument and Reflection Pool, will be the focus of the reenactments on Saturday, April 18, staffed by reenactors in period costume, with support personnel in modern clothes. The demonstrations create an immersive experience utilizing all the senses. Planned demonstrations and participatory activities allow visitors/students to interact directly with the past. Reenactors engaging in demonstrations and routine activities (cooking food, checking weapons, etc.) create a more immersive sensory experience, engaging with visitors sense of sight, smell and sound and allows visitor interaction with reenactors on their own terms.

In addition to the ongoing living history demonstrations taking place, four distinct reenactments portraying specific events during the San Jacinto campaign will take place on Saturday. Each reenactment is an act in the San Jacinto Saga. Act 1, the Runaway Scrape; Act 2, the skirmish of April 20th; Act 3, the Battle of San Jacinto and of course Act 4 the surrender of the Mexican Army and the capture of Santa Anna. These reenactments will focus interpretation on the San Jacinto Campaign and will serve to continually draw people back to the living history encampment.