Voyageurs camp on beach at Indiana Dunes State Park to bring history to life

Voyageurs camp on beach at Indiana Dunes State Park to bring history to life

Camping on the beach at Indiana Dunes State Park with 30 mph winds was no picnic, but reenactors portraying French-Canadian voyageurs roughed it over the weekend to show what life was like for traders in the 1770s. The living history program featured four members of the Ouiatenon Brigade from Lafayette. Canvas over their canoe and trade goods, propped up by their paddles, served as their tent, just as it would have in the 1770s. “The most import…