Tickets are now available for the 22nd Annual Sutter’s Fort Evening Living History Program. This popular theater-like program takes place the evening of November 18, 2006 at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park in Sacramento.

The adventure begins when guests enter the candlelit fort. All the electric lights have been doused to enable visitors to truly feel the atmosphere of the past. The continuously evolving play unfolds as visitors to the fort peer into the fort’s rooms for short 5-minute “acts” that provide glimpses of life on the frontier. The Living History volunteers portray people of Sutter’s Fort going about their evening tasks as if it were November 1846. Tall tales, gossip, rumors and evening work take place as visitors follow their lantern-carrying guide through the fort’s rooms and courtyards. At the end of the hour-and-a-half tour visitors enjoy pie and cider or coffee with Captain Sutter in the Central Building of the Fort.

Tours begin every 10 minutes from 6:30 until 8:00 PM. Tickets are $15 per person.

Call 916/323-2015 for reservations. Space is limited to 15 persons per tour and reservations are required. California State Parks, in cooperation with the Sacramento Historic Sites Association, presents the Sutter’s Fort Living History Program.

Sutter’s Fort is located at 2701 L Street, Sacramento. 916-445-4422.

Source: California State Parks