The Taste of History 2026- free to attend June 19 & 20!

The Taste of History 2026 is free to attend- no tickets required!

Friday, June 19 from 9am-5pm

Sat, June 20 from 9am-6pm

Sandstone Village, 763 Milan Avenue, Amherst, Ohio 44001!

Free to attend! Free parking and shuttle at Amherst Junior High, 548 Milan Avenue, Amherst, Ohio 44001

Free Reenactor & Field Kitchen registration and $75 Vendor registration https://www.mhpg.us/tasteofhistory2026

This unique free public display timeline event is focused on the food and rations that fed soldiers through the years! See history come to life with displays that include military, home front, and camp followers. Field kitchens will compete and offer samples of historic period meals for a donation. There are static displays, shooting demonstrations, military surplus vendors, kids’ activities and more!

In 2025, around 300 reenactors came from around the country to put on the event and 5,000 people attended- and this year is expected to be even bigger!

Thank you to the Lorain County Visitors Bureau and Amherst VFW 1662 for partnering with Military History Preservation Group and Amherst Historical Society, and to all the sponsors for making this event possible!

Division Sponsors:

American Legion Post 118 (Amherst, Ohio)

AMVETS Post 32 (Elyria, Ohio)

Camp Sponsors:

Amherst Eagles F.O.E. 1442

Amherst Legion Post 8 (Wellington, Ohio)

Firelands VFW Post 2743

VFW Post 3341 Grafton, Ohio

VFW Post 6941 Wellington, Ohio

Ohio VFW District 9

Lorain County Veterans Service Commission

Field Kitchen Sponsors:

American Legion Post 211 (Avon Lake, Ohio)

Amherst VFW Post 1662 Auxiliary

I.B.E.W. Local 129

VFW Post 451 (Lorain, Ohio)

Medina VFW Post 5137

Richard and Kate Nord

Nord Family Foundation Matching Grant

VFW Post 8686 (Sheffield Lake, Ohio)

VFW Post1238 (Bellevue, Ohio)

Vehicle Sponsors:

Lorain Italian American Veterans Post #1

VFW Post 3341 (Grafton, Ohio)

VFW Post 9340 (Columbia Station, Ohio)

VFW Post 9871(North Ridgeville, Ohio)

The Brown family

Chuck Winiarski

Sliman's Sales and Service

The Clappas family

The Fought family

For more information, please contact the Amherst Historical Society at 440-988-7255 or [email protected] or https://amhersthistoricalsociety.org/tasteofhistory2026/