- Last Updated on Thursday, 01 August 2013 05:11
By Alice Harris
The streets of Washington resounded with music and "gunfire" the weekend of July 11-13 with the celebration of the 2013 Third Annual Whiskey Rebellion Festival.
The streets of Washington resounded with music and "gunfire" the weekend of July 11-13 with the celebration of the 2013 Third Annual Whiskey Rebellion Festival.
 The festival featured many displays of early American crafts and artifacts and reenactors in period clothing.
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The Festival began with programs on Thursday in conjunction with the Washington Main Street Farmer's Market and a performance under the stars by the Washington Symphony Orchestra at 8:00 pm. A "Blues, Brews & BBQ" and bands including Ruby Red, Jill West and the Blues Attack, and the Billy Price Band performed on Friday. The Main Street Community Parade began the celebration on Saturday morning along with reenactments, great food and craft booths, historic displays and community organization booths, a scavenger hunt, tours of the Bradford and LeMoyne Houses, and many other fun activities that concluded with performances by the Panther Hollow String Band, The Weedrags, the SteelDrivers and a great fireworks finale.
 Standing ground in front of the David Bradford House, rebel reenactors return warning shots on US troops who came to arrest David Bradford.
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In 1794 the US Government under George Washington sent troops to enforce a new tax on whiskey made by southwest PA farmers on the Appalachian frontier, and to capture David Bradford at his home in Washington.
