The premier event takes place on Saturday, April 13th at locations in and around Bound Brook: the neighborhood of the Van Horne House on Main Street (at Commerce Bank Ballpark) in Bridgewater, including Tea Street in Bound Brook, downtown Bound Brook, and the Abraham Staats House in South Bound Brook.

At the newly renovated Van Horne House, there'll be a Soldier's Breakfast (a strictly GI affair of bottled water and cornbread) for the first 1000 visitors. Presenting scenes of living history, exhibits, interactive displays, a 6-minute film, and models inside the stately home will give historical context to the event. Jitney buses will be available for travel among five key sites: Van Horne House, Staats House, Hendrick Fisher House, Olde Stone Bridge and downtown Bound Brook.

Throughout the day there will be mock battle action, the firing of muskets and artillery pieces, and demonstrations of military drill. )These activities will take place in all locations.) For the kids a ",Children's Muster",will offer shouldered wooden rifles and the chance to fall in and learn to march. The Commerce Bank Ballpark stadium concessions and facilities will be open for visitors all day. There'll be an open-air craft fair, old movies will be shown, and on the grounds of the Van Horne House, music, singing, and dance from the colonial period. A highlight of the day's events will be the entertaining reenactment, partly based on folklore, of Gen. Lincoln fleeing out a window of the Van Horne House to escape Gen. Cornwallis and his troops. Philip Van Horne will raise the British flag after Cornwallis arrives, but will replace it with the Betsy Ross flag when Gen. Lincoln triumphantly returns later in the day.

Crafts and antiques for shoppers, and food will be available in Bound Brook proper, as well as quilting, demonstrations of colonial crafts and domestic skills, and Native American living history. Reenactments at the location of the colonial garrison's checkpoint at Stone Bridge, and historic tours of the Bridge and the Bound Brook Cemetery will also run through the day. Bound Brook Library will host a book signing by author Dorothy Stratford, there'll be street music, an Art Fair, Amish Wagon rides, and in the afternoon a pig roast.