Folk Festival

Rich Wagner of Hatboro demonstartes how colonials brewed beer at the annual folk fest at the Mercer Museum grounds in Doylestown, Saturday afternoon. Rich Wagner pours wort into a copper kettle where it is boiled until it is ready to be cooled off and made drinkable.

(from left) Andrew Zhugayevich, 10, of Jamison watches Doug Bender of Doylestown and private in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment reenactment, demonstrates how to load a British model brown bess musket at the annual folk fest at the Mercer Museum grounds in Doylestown, Saturday afternoon.

Randy Quintrell of Milford Square demonstrates timber hewing with a flat face ax at the annual folk fest at the Mercer Museum grounds in Doylestown, Saturday afternoon.

Randy Quintrell of Milford Square demonstrates timber hewing with a flat face ax at the annual folk fest at the Mercer Museum grounds in Doylestown, Saturday afternoon.