There was History on the Porch at the Cornwall Community Museum on Saturday afternoon.

The trip back in time may have been tardy by a minute or two, but that worked.

“I just looked at my sundial and I think we are a little late starting,” said narrator and re-enactor Wes Libby to begin the one-hour mid-afternoon presentation put on by the SD&G Historical Society .

Libby explained his role was to put into context the events leading to the arrival of United Empire Loyalists in Cornwall and area on June 6, 1784. A series of re-enactors took things from there with some colourful and at times emotional stories.

It was advertised as “something totally different in Lamoureux Park,” the launch of what will be a series of free events commemorating the arrival of the Loyalists; visitors on Sat

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