Bushwhacker Days entertainment and reenactors, 2

David Prickett plays folk music for an audience on the north side of the courthouse.

Civil War reenactor Charles Cunningham shows Bushwhacker Days festival-goers the tools surgeons used on the battlefield.

The audience at The Great Medicine Man Show watch as reenactor Professor Farquar tells jokes and sings folk songs.

Civil War undertaker Phil Wolfolk answers questions about his work. "Business has been good lately," he said, referring to the large number of Civil War soldiers killed in battle.

Blacksmith Monty Towe works to create a sword hanger. Towe would first heat the metal in the coals of an open fire before shaping it with a hammer, then dipped it in water to cool and seal the design.