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Restoring the Camp Chairs
It was at Nelsonville 2011 that I first tried to use my new camp chairs, pictured above. I found out in a hurry that the fabric was questionable at best—the fabric on three of the chairs quickly tore after only a few minutes of sitting in them. When I originally purchased them a couple of…
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A Weekend Off to buy some toys.
July 16, 2011 I apologize if this entry is more of a rambling, but since I can’t go to a reenactment (yeah, I’m missing out on 1st Manassas), then I should at least get some toys for one, right? Lil’ Mary. Ain’t she shiny? Since nothing was planned this weekend I went to the gun…
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Rescuing the Rescuer
This weekend was not a reenactment, but a rescue of sorts. A friend of Gary Shaw’s had in his barn loft a relic of the Civil War, and offered to allow us to display it during the Lancaster event over the 4th of July weekend. He told us it was an ambulance in the Civil…