Association members hold annual 'rondy' at High Breeze
| 13 Oct 2014 | 03:37
Garden State Black Powder Association member “Buffalo Man” Frank Diraimondo of Oakland is shown during the knife and tomahawk throwing competition.
Armed with a musket, re-enactor Dennis Moore of Secaucus spent much of Sunday afternoon on the range at High Breeze Farm on Vernon’s Wawayanda Mountain.
Young girls wash the breakfast dishes the “old fashioned way.”
VERNON — For nearly an entire week, members of the Garden State Black Powder Association (GSBPA) camped at High Breeze Farm on Vernon’s Wawayanda Mountain.
On Saturday and Sunday, the public was welcomed to their annual rendezvous or “Rondy.”
GSBPA members and their families where dressed as Americans did prior to the 1840s.
Activities included firing miniature mortars, shooting muzzle loading rifles, and throwing tomahawks and knives. Young girls washed the breakfast dishes the old fashioned way.
— Photos by Chris Wyman