Ralph Luker has been thinking about reenactors at Cliopatria this week. I've never done reenactments of any sort, but since so much of the blackpowder community does, I've read quite a bit on the subject. You really can't avoid it, when the middle third of the Dixie Gun Works catalog is devoted to snoods and other fashion accessories.
Military reenacting isn't the safest hobby in the world. I heard that a college acquaintance was shot in the neck by French reenactors at Yorktown several years ago. Cases of heat exhaustion have been reported at Civil War reenactments for forty-five years now. I imagine it's especially a problem for these folks.
(Via Ostfront, where you can buy a fake NKVD gravy boat.)
Posted by Ben Brumfield at July 21, 2006 10:09 AM