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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #45 on: October 26, 2019, 09:18:02 PM »
Next to last rendezvous of the 2019 season was at Fort Atkinson Ia. This fort dates to the 1840's, built to watch over the Winnebago tribe during their removal from Wisconsin. After construction by the army it was manned by local militia as the regulars were needed for the Mexican-American war. The fort was abandoned in 1849.
Sunrise after early set-up day.
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Camp had filled in by later in the 2nd day.
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Another good paint job.
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Restored barracks serves as the museum.
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Mark, from Night Sun flutes was just a couple tents down from me. I own several of his flutes.
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Of course I bought another flute. I like his small ones for letting kids play with them. The size fits their little hands better and I play my other flutes so I don't catch whatever is going around the schools.
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This bird totem is an owl. Onni should approve.
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Back home for a week before my last event. Here is a red dawn. The weather was rapidly changing into fall.
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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #46 on: November 20, 2019, 04:15:48 PM »
Last rendezvous of 2019 is usually Ft. Obie, a fictional fort outside of Colona Il. about an hour south of me. It's a small event that saw better days and is trying to rebuild. I've gone to it for years and continue to support it.
A red dawn at home a few days before the vous.
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A portion of the camp. It was cold and very windy the whole time so I was not very inspired to take photos.
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It's Ft Obie which is in October so of course it was frosty in the mornings.
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A welcome summer survivor.
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Harbinger of things to come.
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Keeping warm on a chilly morning. I've used woodstoves in my lodge for over 20 years.
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But I had to face facts about my COPD so I sold my stove at Ft Obie and bought a propane heater.
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Back home where my kitty was was glad to see me after my repeated absences of the past two months.
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My back yard a couple of weeks later after an early snow.
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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #47 on: November 20, 2019, 04:31:34 PM »
I stopped shaving after arriving at Ft Obie and since it was my season finale I decided I would let my beard grow out until Christmas to see how much I would look like Santa Claus. I had a beard in my 20's for a few years but didn't like it since it was scraggly and patchy at that age. I will shave it off after the holidays and will also cut my hair before Spring. Photos taken of me this summer convinced me that my natural hair has gotten too thin to wear long anymore. I have ordered an 18th century white wig with the curls by each ear and a tail wrapped in ribbon for my presentation from here on. I found a wigmaker online based in the Kentucky/Tennessee region who looks to have a quality line of products. I'll post pics when it arrives sometime in February.
Couldn't fit this into my previous post. Here my lilac bush still has its leaves after the 1st snow.
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Itchy beard #1
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Itchy beard #2
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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #48 on: December 16, 2019, 04:50:12 PM »
I like your beard, maybe you should keep it. A wig would give an interesting effect with your face - very 1700s.
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« Reply #49 on: December 17, 2019, 05:01:42 PM »
You aren't the only one who has told me to keep the beard but my mind is set. Facial hair is fiercely debated in pre-civil war reenactor sites here and I stay on the shaved side of the debate. A colonial American of the 18th century would be clean shaven. Only someone of the very lowest class would go unshaven, or people with religious reasons such as Jews.  Anyone well dressed with a beard would have risked physical confrontation in the streets. Such incidents are recorded. So I will shave my beard and trim my hair short and wear a wig as a balding colonial gentleman of my period would have done. I recently read a quote from a tory who had his wig snatched from his head during a scuffle between whigs and torries during the stamp act riots in Boston who said "time and his barber had done for his real hair". He speaks for me as well. I'm tired of the effort I must take all year long to care for my remaining long hair which no longer gives me the effect I want during the 6 months I do my demonstrations.
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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #50 on: December 17, 2019, 07:09:41 PM »
Cultural differences. My Celtic folk regarded beards as something to be cultivated and shown off. And didn’t wear wigs unless in a social situation that required it, like a royal court. Whereas the English and their colonies were right into wigs as decoration and a social status thing. With your face you will probably look good either way.
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Re: Re-enactment Experiences Mark II
« Reply #51 on: December 21, 2019, 04:02:15 PM »
Haven't had time to comment earlier, but you take great photos.
But what enquiring minds want to know, this side of Christmas:
Is the beard still on?
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« Reply #52 on: December 22, 2019, 10:54:59 AM »
The beard will last the holidays and expire with the old year. I bought a Santa hat to take a picture on Xmas eve which I will post.
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« Reply #53 on: December 22, 2019, 03:14:06 PM »
Looking forward to seeing it!
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« Reply #54 on: December 22, 2019, 11:45:11 PM »
*happy clappy*
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« Reply #55 on: December 25, 2019, 01:15:55 AM »
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« Reply #56 on: December 25, 2019, 01:35:31 AM »
Those are lovely pics. Yes, the beard does suit you. My husband has a very similar one, though his is completely white, which looks odd because his hair is still quite dark in parts. Suits him though.

 And your lights are lovely! Very restrained and dignified as well as seasonally appropriate. May they keep the darkness far from you! It’s the dark of the moon tonight. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
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« Reply #57 on: January 27, 2020, 10:51:50 PM »
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« Reply #58 on: January 28, 2020, 04:59:56 AM »
I will be very curious to see how you look in the wig. To my mind the beard is slightly better for the shape of your face than the clean-shaven look, but see how you look when it all settles down.
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« Reply #59 on: April 14, 2020, 01:53:30 PM »
Both the Gumeracha Mediæval Fair and the Mylor English Ale have been Definitely cancelled for this year, because Covid19. Damnit! We will just have to make Fair and Ale extra good for 2021.
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