It’s almost hard to imagine bustling Germantown Avenue being the foggy, smoke-filled scene revolution that it was in 1777. Yet on Oct. 3, muskets again were ablaze and thundering canons shook the nearly 1,000 people estimated to be in attendance to witness the reenactment of the Battle of Germantown at Cliveden.

“It is a long-standing tradition in our historic community,” said Executive Director David W. Young Cliveden’s Board of Trustees. “Going back to a reenactment in 1927 when people dressed up in their ancestors’ uniforms. It is also one of the funnest (and loudest) events in Philadelphia’s historic …