BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20160109T180000Z DTEND:20160109T200000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:George Rogers Clark Gunpowder Run DESCRIPTION:Annual recreation of the gunpowder run for Fort Harrod\n\n \nScrambling back down to Fort Harrod a bit before New Years Day of 1777\, I always imagine Clark must have told the besieged settlers: "Well folks\, I've got some good news and bad news. Good news is\, Virginia gave us all the black powder we asked for. Bad news? I had to bury it up on the Ohio River over 100 miles away."\n\nNevertheless\, and not to be denied so crucial a necessity\; professor Harrison happily observes: "A week later\, James Harrod and 30 riflemen recovered the powder ..." Once again\, the stouthearted spies of Fort Harrod come through to save the day\, relocating their expertly hidden cache securing all that precious gunpowder and bringing it safely back to Fort Harrod through miles and miles of hostile\, Indian-infested wilderness. Then rapidly and thoughtfully distributing it out among the various other hard-pressed Kentucky forts and stations. A perilous\, difficult job well done a potential catastrophe narrowly averted. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Annual recreation of the gunpowder run for Fort Harrod
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Scrambling back down to Fort Harrod a bit before New Years Day of 1777\, I always imagine Clark must have told the besieged settlers: &ldquo\;Well folks\, I&rsquo\;ve got some good news and bad news. Good news is\, Virginia gave us all the black powder we asked for. Bad news? I had to bury it up on the Ohio River &mdash\; over 100 miles away.&rdquo\;

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Nevertheless\, and not to be denied so crucial a necessity\; professor Harrison happily observes: &ldquo\;A week later\, James Harrod and 30 riflemen recovered the powder ...&rdquo\; Once again\, the stouthearted spies of Fort Harrod come through to save the day\, relocating their expertly hidden cache &mdash\; securing all that precious gunpowder and bringing it safely back to Fort Harrod through miles and miles of hostile\, Indian-infested wilderness. Then rapidly and thoughtfully distributing it out among the various other hard-pressed Kentucky forts and stations. A perilous\, difficult job well done &mdash\; a potential catastrophe narrowly averted.

\n LOCATION:GRC Block House at Fort Harrod UID:e.1251.7957 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260514T105026Z URL:https://www.mercerchamber.com/events/details/george-rogers-clark-gunpowder-run-01-09-2016-7957 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR