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Hannah and Lukka - October 18, 2018
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Hannah and Lukka - October 18, 2018
T19 105mm HMC Half-Track by David Via Flickr: T19 105mm HMC Half-Track, War And Peace Revival, Tuesday 23nd July 2019. The Hop Farm Kent.
The perfect gift for the WWII-era re-enactor in your family. Not sure if this is Willys-built or Ford-built, but that shovel and ax are historically correct. The placement of those jerry cans are a bit impractical, though.
Am I a re-enactor?
I’d say no 😀 I do some crafting that has something to do with re-enactment and I definitely like the scientific aspects of my hobbies and my lifestyle so I do come in contact with experimental archaeology and such, but I don’t think I would label myself as a re-enactor. What I do is, I take historical concepts and approach them with my modern day knowledge of things. Since I speak several…
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Everyone knew someone, it seemed, for whom Gettysburg would be the last re-enactment.
"It does let you step back and have a breather," said John Browne, a 22-year-old Civil War re-enactor originally from Seattle but who has lived in Brevard, N.C., since he was 12.
Browne said in his Civil War re-enactment camp he doesn't have to worry about people pulling out their cell phones, getting connected to the outside world and ignoring everyone else around them.
Sitting in his Confederate camp at Gettysburg with only a lantern and the stars for light, Browne said, "It's a good thing that we're not supposed to have technology out here because (the technology) inhibits us from being able to develop relations with the humans right next to us, instead of being very deep into our phone at the moment."
"Everybody should go camping," he said. "Things move very, very fast today with our communications… It's almost unnatural the speed we're going."
It's more than just a camping adventure, though. For some, there is also the tug of ancestry, particularly in the South.
After The Battle by Tony Jones ‘Via Flickr: England's Medieval Festival, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex. 28/08/2011′