Home of Revolutionary hero holds Ethan Allen Day events

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — In celebration of "Ethan Allen Day" the Vermont homestead museum of the Revolutionary War hero will host a series of events.

This weekend, the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum in Burlington will have a recreation of an 18th century campsite and demonstrations of crafts, lifestyle displays and military drills. It will also recreate the eviction of a "Yorker," the settlers from New York that Allen and the Green Mountain Boys drove out of Vermont.

The holiday celebrating Allen commemorates the events of June 23, 1775, the day Allen testified before Congress and received recognition as a regiment of the Continental Army.

The Homestead Museum was Allen's final home, built after he moved to Burlington from Sheffield in 1787.