Fort Recovery residents, standing from left, Judy Wood, Caleb Smith, Paul Fortkamp, Jan Hickerson, Ginny Fortkamp, Helen LeFevre, Jenni Smith, Eliza Smith and Olivia Smith and, seated from left, Michelle Dues, mayor Dave Kaup and Jacque Leverette dress in period clothing as Kaup reads a proclamation encouraging all Fort Recovery merchants and business employees to wear period costume on Fridays and Saturdays starting May 6 and continuing through the week of the village's 225th anniversary celebration, June 12-19.