Home from ReenactorFest. Four days of too little sleep, overflowing fun, education & shopping and just enough hanging out with great people with a similar interest and a great big clue! Old friends and new friends and a few people I haven't seen for fifteen years. Thanks to the Feztastics! More details and photos to comer, but only after a bit of

Hope to see you there! Be certain to stop by the Regia/Folump table!

Michael Bollow, the head honcho for ReenactorFest, has sent out a note in which he says ( Read more... )

A friend mentioned that he had just watched "Severed Ways" on DVD. I had been waiting to see it, so I promptly ordered a copy. He gave it a neutral review, so I ordered the cheapest used copy I could find ( Read more... )

Over on 18CWoman, a person who works at an historical site as an interpreter wrote this during a discussion on costumed interpreters, 1st vs. 3rd person impressions and much else. It really touched me and hit on the reason I get so much fulfillment from the hobby. This has happened a few tines with me, and I know exactly how she felt ( Read more... )

Lord knows I'll be smiling myself to sleep: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archeon/4310277099/in/photostream/?addedcomment=1#comment72157623305535902

Interesting article from the National Trust for Historic Preservation on "History Under Fire\" by political and economic forces, cribbed from a RevWar reenactor: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/story-of-the-week/2010/

Popular media has given us a perverted perspective of the Middle Ages. Some might believe that the Middle Ages was filled with royalty and nobility, with knights and damsels in distress and with a couple serfs and freemen thrown in, usually for comic effect ( Read more... )

Most of the Living History Podcasts have been valuable and all of them worth listening to. This week, Stephen and Alena discuss event survival, and it's invaluable! Take time to listen to it at http://livinghistorypodcast.com/ You might learn a few things in less than the 35 years it's ( Read more... )

Sorry to hear about Bob Parker's passing. I discovered him in 1972 when I bought "The Godwulf Manuscript" because of the medieval tie-in, was enchanted by his Chandler-esqe approach and read him for years. Until I realized that I wasn't reading fiction any more, I read all his Spenser novels ( Read more... )