Potential Impression

[plankmaker]

Would take some serious effort to do it right, but could be fun.

Richmond Dispatch.
Wednesday morning...August 10, 1864

A bleached man.

--A few days ago the provost guard from this place brought in a deserter from the army, who had been absent from his command fifteen months, and who had eluded all efforts made for his capture by secreting himself between the ceiling and weatherboarding of the house in which he lived. The guard get a clue as to his whereabouts and commenced to tear off the ceiling where he was lodged, when the runaway crept forth from his hiding place and surrendered at discretion. His name is Shelton, and he belongs to the Thirty-eighth Virginia regiment. The man was very unlike one of our bronzed soldiers in his countenance, as well as in his heart, being bleached to an unnatural whiteness from long resting in the shade. He preferred the life of a rat to that of a soldier.--Danville (Virginia) Register.

[sbl]

Do any Goth Kids reenact?

[plankmaker]

Probably, but they would most likely prefer the CW vampire impression.

[sbl]

Ginger kids would be better although my own children were born translucent.

The actual story reminds me too much of a scene from Schindler's List.

[gambit88]

Actually I saw some goth kids at the jackson mi event. They were civilians but they were pale and full of piercings, just like the people from the 1800s. I say this in jest and hope not to offend anyone.

Gambit

[sbl]

I just saw one of those DE-motivational posters that said Goth happens when you don't hug your kids enough.

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

I was just looking at your locations, as no one has posted of the Confederate Gothic/Vampyr/Alice Cooper/Cowboy/Colonel lad and his Goth SO who stroll through mainstream events in this part of the country- known as "The Colonel."

(A nice guy by the way. Just seemingly clueless and immune to the mocking he unfortunately generates...)

CHS

[reddiamond]

I believe that I have seen this phantom.
We refer to him as "The Pale Rider."

He is as white as snow and has his hair, mustachios, and eyebrows dyed jet black.

I wouldn't let my kids near him.

Scot Buffington

[plankmaker]

Maybe he is working up to a Horace Greeley impression as he ages.

Richmond Dispatch
Friday morning...Sept. 27, 1861

Houston's Portrait of Greeley.

--Gen. Houston, in one of his political speeches, gave the following description of the editor of the New York Tribune, to whom this continent is indebted as much as to any other one man in if for the present convulsions and bloodshed.

"Horace is a most remarkable man; he is the whitest man in the world. His skin is milk-white. His hairs are white, and these are scattering. He wears a white hat and a white coat, and I must be permitted to give it to you as my candid opinion, that his liver is of the same color."

This is a remarkable white man indeed, and as extremes meet and strong attractions are often begotten by contrasts, it is not wonderful that the blackest kind of Black Republication is the master passion of the Tribune Albino, a term which was originally applied by the Portuguese to white negroes on the coast of Africa, from which race we should conjecture Horace to be descended, but that he lacks some of their redeeming qualities. It is melancholy to think that a great Republic should perish by such vermin; but through all the realms of nature, small causes often produce great effects. The work of the caterpillar may destroy the grandest tree of the forest, and as insignificant an insect as the ant undermine and overthrow the proudest structures.

[sbl]

"Jonah Begone" has a Goth Yankee...