Post by boviphile on Sept 4, 2008 8:28:43 GMT -5
Hi Catherine,
its nice to know there is at least one other Living Historian on the "board" . i suspect there are many who are interested in history but not everyone is wacky enough to enjoy dressing up in "funny clothes" and camping out etc.
I used to do American Revolutionary war re-enactments in spite of my Quaker (pacifist) heritage actually i did a loyalist refugee impression a few times which was an interesting experience. unless they have read the book "Oliver Wiswell" most people are used to thinking of Loyalists as the Bad Guys. :)anyway, I had an ox-cart with a milk-cow tied behind etc and told visitors i was heading to Canada since my farm had been burned by the "rebels"
Maybe it's because i live near Gettysburg and Antietam -- i have always been interested in the American Civil war, too. But i have never done any re-enacting in that time period, just visited the battlefields etc. If you ever come to this area to visit some of the Civil War battlefields that are up here, i hope you will get in touch and i will try to show you some Yankee hospitality which can't really compare to Texas but i will do my best.
Nowadays i do only occasional living history "day trips" with a horse, ox or cow to local historic sites that don't have animals on site. most of the time we (the animal and i) just stand there and let visitors see and sometimes pet the animal, and i try to tell the folks something about how important animals were (and are). I live in a part of the world where farms are disappearing and suburbs and urban sprawl are spreading so fast. Some of people who talk to me say they have never seen a cow before! ("is that a bull? becuase it has antlers, so that means its a boy, right?") Some of the kids get as excited as if they were looking at a dinosaur.
its nice to know there is at least one other Living Historian on the "board" . i suspect there are many who are interested in history but not everyone is wacky enough to enjoy dressing up in "funny clothes" and camping out etc.
I used to do American Revolutionary war re-enactments in spite of my Quaker (pacifist) heritage actually i did a loyalist refugee impression a few times which was an interesting experience. unless they have read the book "Oliver Wiswell" most people are used to thinking of Loyalists as the Bad Guys. :)anyway, I had an ox-cart with a milk-cow tied behind etc and told visitors i was heading to Canada since my farm had been burned by the "rebels"
Maybe it's because i live near Gettysburg and Antietam -- i have always been interested in the American Civil war, too. But i have never done any re-enacting in that time period, just visited the battlefields etc. If you ever come to this area to visit some of the Civil War battlefields that are up here, i hope you will get in touch and i will try to show you some Yankee hospitality which can't really compare to Texas but i will do my best.
Nowadays i do only occasional living history "day trips" with a horse, ox or cow to local historic sites that don't have animals on site. most of the time we (the animal and i) just stand there and let visitors see and sometimes pet the animal, and i try to tell the folks something about how important animals were (and are). I live in a part of the world where farms are disappearing and suburbs and urban sprawl are spreading so fast. Some of people who talk to me say they have never seen a cow before! ("is that a bull? becuase it has antlers, so that means its a boy, right?") Some of the kids get as excited as if they were looking at a dinosaur.