I plan on going back to being a private..this NCO/Officer crap sucks! I miss the days when I was perfecting my shirker impression.
I plan on going back to being a private..this NCO/Officer crap sucks! I miss the days when I was perfecting my shirker impression.
Sgt Coleman
138th PVI
Federal Volunteer Brigade
After the 150s I'm going to start working on my General Wool impression for the 170s.
M. A. Schaffner
Midstream Regressive Complainer
Break out my GAR Insignia, dress up in fancy dudes and grab my cane and march in the parades.
Nast "T"
Michael Farnsley
aka Thomas Nast
www.bohemianbrigade.com
"Whose toils cheered the fireside educated provinces of rustics unto a bright nation of readers and gave incentive to narrate distant wars and explore dark lands"
Flee to Europe.
Pards,
S. Chris Anders
Southern Division
www.southerndivision.org
www.rearrank.com
www.marylandmymaryland.org
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince. 1537.
Still being the "Second Most Hated Reenactor in Kentucky"!
Micah Trent
Lt Colonel - Western Federal Blues
Friends of Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
Wonder where I rank?
Pards,
S. Chris Anders
Southern Division
www.southerndivision.org
www.rearrank.com
www.marylandmymaryland.org
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince. 1537.
As per a discussion with Pat Landrum, get ready for the most EPIC sale of gear in parking lots after Bentonville, Saylor's Creek, Appomattox, Ft. Blakely, etc.
I predict the following:
The economy will start improving early next year and into the following years making it financially easier for younger folks to get into the hobby.
Speilberg's "Lincoln" movie will kindle interest in the Civil War much in the way that Ken Burn's "Civil War" docu series and the "Gettysburg" mini-series did and the public will eat it up.
As a result, the hobby will see another surge in growth AFTER the 150th years just like the surge that came AFTER the 125th. Expect the Mother of All Reenactments at Gettysburg in the 155th or 160th anniversary years.
As mentioned above, a new outgrowth of CW reenacting will be CW Veteran events (recreated GAR and UCV reunions).... I know one NPS interpreter already working on veteran scenarios for his park. Major things will start happening with the "Veteran in a New Field" even before the end of the 150th.
- Ernesto Serna
"...I'm struck by the contradiction at the core of Civil War reenacting. On the surface it's a hyper-macho hobby, focused on guns and battle. But the longer I hang out with hardcores ... the more they remind me of supermodels, chatting endlessly about their jackets and shoes and hair and how many pounds they've lost since the last event." - Tony Horwitz
Maybe we could negotiate a bulk sale to the descendants of Francis Bannerman.
. )
Frank Brower
Well, after Perryville, you may be right up there with me. HA!Originally Posted by Anders
Wonder where I rank?
Pards,
Micah Trent
Lt Colonel - Western Federal Blues
Friends of Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
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