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On Reenacting: Or Discovering My Future By Returning To The Past

Dec 27, 2008 04:15

(sleep is not forthcoming this night, so I'll have to content myself with writing and an XL coffee in the morning before eventing!)

Truly, I don;t think I've ever felt like I was "of" the modern century. Even when I was a wee girl, I felt a connection to all things antique and old fashioned. I was the little girl who would dress her Barbies and Kens ( Read more... )

american revolution, reenacting

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danceofillusion December 27 2008, 17:09:49 UTC

Wow. In some ways you remind me of myself. I was the quiet one (still am when with other crowds of people) in school and such. Had nothing but my books. However I've only recently come to appreciate American History from the John Adams series. Before that I didn't understand, wasn't taught or wanted anything to do with America. (I was a Tory lol.)

But now I love the history of the American Revolution. I too, have formed, ah, close, relationships/crushes with some of these people. So it doesn't sound strange at all!

Reading your entry did make me wonder if you had had a past life there. I sometimes think that one can't be completely engrossed in a time period (or several) whether from a young age or even older at some point in time without -possibly- having had a past connection.

... It's what I believe anyway.

biznessman_alfa January 24 2009, 22:03:52 UTC

it was kind of sad i had never learned anything about American history until AFTER i got out of college. and when i felt the urge to learn about the American Revolution, i went to the local library, and there was a book about George Washington and nothing else (so disappointing). i had always wanted to try reenacting, but here in IN there really isnt anything other than Civil War, which i was thinking of doing eventually.

i remember as a kid (we lived in Virginia Beach), going to Old Williamsburg and the Jamestown Settlement, and i was definitely hooked on history. i saw a Rev War reenactment, and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. i had an ancestor who fought in the Rev War and quite a few in the CW (2 buried in Andersonville, also)