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Civil War Remembrance at the Henry Ford (Dearborn, MI)


  • The Henry Ford / Greenfield Village 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn MI 48124-5029 (map)

Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 9:30am – 5pm (Sat: event to 9pm; Silhouettes until 8pm)

At America’s largest open-air museum, Greenfield Village at the Henry Ford, feel the Civil War come alive all around you as bustling camps, cavalry, period musicians, artisans, and civilians enliven an entire weekend to challenge the many viewpoints of the Civil War period.

Silhouettes By Hand is a special invited guest artist, cutting silhouette portraits while interpreting portraiture in a new photographic age. An additional interpretation about the “science” of physiognomy rounds out the experience in this traveling artist studio under canvas. Event information is here.