Kevin Stonerock will be performing at Leesburg Elementary from 9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 8. The program is being brought to the school by the Honeywell Educational Outreach Program.

From 9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m., Kevin Stonerock will be the “Hoosier Pioneer,” a character compiled from several different accounts of the period 1770-1810. The program centers around the life of Andrew Amonett, a true-to-life frontiersman of the Indiana Territory.

The presentation, complete with tall tales, deals with various aspects of frontier life and the dangers faced in the Indiana Territory just prior to the War of 1812. Topics include trapping, militia service, Indian affairs, tools, weapons and frontier clothing.

From 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m., he will be Billy Yank, an actual soldier from Henry County, Indiana, named William H. Fentress. The presentation is set in the year 1864 with a battle-weary Fentress home on leave from the Union Army.

Although the character portrayed was a real individual, much of the presentation deals with issues or items which would have been common to most northern soldiers of the Civil War. These include camp life, battlefield experiences, army humor, food, equipment, music, weapons, uniforms and the home front. The program objective is to bring the audience as close as they will ever come to visiting with a real veteran of the War Between the States and to provide a better understanding of the men who wore the blue.