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Outnumbered at Shawshank
Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield, OH August 27, 2016 With a significant number of promises from the men of meeting Capt Sharp at the Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, we planned to spend a good portion of the day in drill, fine-tuning our skills for the next couple of events. But much of that number went…
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The Reformatory and the Civil War
The Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield, OH June 20, 2015 Still recovering from Red River, my apartment looking like a reenactor exploded, I rode with Capt. J.R. Sharp and his family to the one-day event at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. We arrived at the 1st Tennessee camp to a light rain. Sgt Kevin…
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The Captain in Blue at the Reformatory
Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield, Ohio June 7-8, 2014 The Ohio State Reformatory has come into a bit of fame for a few reasons, including being the filming location of “The Shawshank Redemption”. This weekend we were there to hold a Civil War living history.Being the first year, numbers were small, but the huge old building…