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kelly1863 wrote:

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Recuperate fast!! Olustee is in two weeks...

keeno2 wrote:

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And that's a big part of reenacting, HistoryBuff. Suffer. It ought to impart a bit of what they went through. I've been a student of the CW for a very long time, but never did it occur to me that to sleep on the ground with one blanket was something enhancing. Different strokes.

I don't know how they did that, but I am quite content with imagining it. You get to know it. I'll pass on that experience.

Wimp Ken

keeno2 wrote:

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I don't know all the specifics and so will not attempt to explain it as I am far from an economic genius, but I heard that the Northern industries were making money off of Southern trade somehow. Also, you're right me lumping Northerners together is just as bad as the people who lump Southerners together. I must try harder to resist that temptation *Bad HistoryBuff*

Everyone, HistoryBuff, was making money off each other's thing. I buy from you, you buy from me. Fair trade.

Having "heard" is just not good enough.

Right now, I'm keenly interested in hearing more about your reenactment experience at wherever it was you went. Will you please post some more on that?

Ken

keeno2 wrote:

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I drove over on Friday, but unfortunately I locked my keys inside my truck while registering

I can match you bonehead for bonehead and raise you one. Some years ago, a close friend and I thought it might be a good idea to go to a cubbies game and party later. We went in separate cars. After the game, we went to his. No go, he had exited the vehicle and left it running. It had no gas. So we walk several blocks to mine and find that I had left the lights on. No partying that night.

Thanks for the expansion on the experience. I make it a point to attend reenactments as an observer. I can absorb a bit of the enthusiasm these guys put into their personnas. Sans camper and AC, I choose to forego the experience.

By the way, have you read about the 73 year-old reenactor at an event near, I think, Norfolk, VA? Admirable. But he got shot by a live round fired my some moron. Seems the moron was a walk-in -- not affiliated. Carried a Colt .44. "I didn't know it was loaded!" Darwin will get him eventually.

Ken

10TnVI wrote:

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History buff- go ahead and sleep out in the cold(I'll be doing it this weekend in subfreezing nighttime tempetures and I'm 50 years old) it won't kill you(with proper percautions) and will let you feel what they suffered routinely. When you're back home infront of the heater drinking a beer on Sunday you will better appreciate the sacrifices they made. Besides, sticking it out when others run for a hotel or don't show up gives you bragging rights later:-) I still fondly remember shivering under a couple of substandard blankets one night on a ridge in Land between the Lakes. 22 degrees with a breeze that night, head to the fire and quite warm, toes barely above frozen. Nothing like a 50 degree tempeture difference over 5 feet of distance. Standing picket(Yes, at some events it's routine) in the dark of a cold night with no one else in sight, just praying your relief will show soon is a expeirence not to be missed.
Ken- one better-at a 3 day campaign event, again at Land between the Lakes(look it up, 50000 acres of rough hilly woods with no towns or settlements) I changed clothes, stuck my keys in my sneakers(planning to leave them in the bed of the truck), and put on my kit. Then, for some inexplicable reason I stuck those shoes in the cab and locked it, forgetting all about the keys until I went looking for then Sunday afternoon. Panic of course insued until I realized they were in the cab. Then a new panic, since most of the people had already left, the nearest possible phone was a good seven miles away and the nearest town(Dover, Tn) about 30 and what were the chances they'ed have a locksmith on duty Sunday afternoon. Fortunatly one of the officers had the knowledge to break in to my truck(The old coathanger trick doesn't work well on modern vehicles with tight fitting doors and smooth lock post) and the day was saved.