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Organizers with the second annual NW Colonial Festival say the four-day event met their goals and likely doubled its attendance from last year.

“It couldn’t have gone much better,” said Dan Abbott, owner of George Washington Inn, where the event was held from Aug. 11-14 in Agnew.

Through the weekend, actors and volunteers recreated 1775 and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with battles, replica encampments, teas, music and more.

In its first year, organizers held the event during Sequim Lavender Weekend but shifted it to the second weekend of August, when it’ll run again in 2017.

“Every person came for this topic,” event director Dan Wilbanks said. “We couldn’t piggyback this year on lavender.”

The festival featured multiple classes each day from actors portraying historical figures, a fife and drum major corp led by Drum Major Viren Lemmer for the Washington State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Organizers said they are looking to build a drum and fife corp locally, too.

Wilbanks said they already are planning for next year’s events and have set a goal to reach out to local schools to visit the inn for educational reenactments sometime this school year.

Ticket sales cover about half of production costs with sponsors and donations needed for the rest of the event, organizers said.

The event comes under the umbrella of the nonprofit George Washington Society.

For more information on the NW Colonial Festival, visit www.facebook.com/colonialfestival or www.nwcolonialfestival.com.

To volunteer next year, call the George Washington Inn at 452-5207.

Those interested in reenacting history for the event, call Wilbanks at 541-817-3353 or email to dlwilbanks@gmail.com.

To become a member of the George Washington Society with various levels of membership, contact Vern Frykholm at 681-2505.