Alex Good Day!!! Let me understand how you serve at an event that runs 3 to 5 days. 1. You like warm beer 2. You pack sandwiches ahead of time to eat (P&J)....
Sir, Let's not forget there are cheeses, sausages, a variety of dried peas and grains, fresh fruits, vegetables (e.g., potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions, ...
Bill and List, I use a CPAP and without I am USELESS for the next day. I am tired and listless. I, too,have a battery for my device (that runs it sans...
Friends, I also use a CPAP machine in my tent. I have purchased 2 rechargeable battery packs that enable me to plug in my CPAP machine and enjoy the sleep of...
If anyone that is TRULY into our hobby, lifestyle, sickness, whatever you or your spouse may call it needs ANY type of medical assistance, be it a CPAP,...
I normally lurk. I use a bipap. I also use it in camp when I am at amm events. I run it off a deep cycle battery, and inverter then the bipap. A deep cycle...
My wife and I have been working towards authentic (non refrigerated) foods for all of our reenacting career. We started with bread & butter. Her butter will...
... Rich, According to "Battle Weapons of the American Revolution" by George C. Neumann, page 97, regarding the Model 1777 French Infantry Musket...that,"those...
... Eric, No one is "shredding" your hopes for selling your piece. Chill. BUT, as this is a list for conversation, it attracted attention. Perhaps had you...
... Alex, In my earlier posting regarding the Kannik's Korner DB Short Jacket pattern...the buttons on this pattern do what you mentioned in that they start at...
... Peggy, Of course there are different levels of reenacting. Given. My comment was on the inability of a large percentage of the reenacting community to...
... James, 1.Warm beer? WHEN they got it, YES it would have been warm. Or at least near air temp. No refrigerators remember! Quicker buzz-on anyway :) 2....
As someone who is also on the CPAP machine, I think the biggest problem you will find in camp is that there is no electricity. You have to plug the machine...
Bob, The 71st is a Scottish Regiment. So we're off to a bad start on this letter. LOL. As for Americans, I confess to knowing next to nothing about their gear,...
Begs the question if we are or were free. Free from what, free to be what? All the AWI did was free people who lived in the 13 colonies were free of the...
Hi Don, Your brochure says it costs 15 cents and it says "Book I". I did not know that travel brochures cost anything, could this be from a comic book? Who was...
Hello List, I will be traveling to North Carolina from Minnesota, I am also planning a side trip to Williamsburg, VA. and then back to MN. I have never been to...
Greetings, Would any member be able to advise me of the likely number staff a Regimental Quartermaster would have at his disposal in a British Infantry...
Yeah well, what's a century among friends! J~ John M. Johnston "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." Dave Barry In a message dated...
Ah, you say hogies (poor boys, subs), we say grinders.. You say milkshakes, we say frappe's... You say water foutain, we say bubblers... You say eighteenth...
Hello everyone, Has anyone ever come across accounts of the activities of the "troops" of light infantry raised in 1776 to augment the 16th and 17th Light...
The Quartermaster himself was very much a soldier, commonly a former serjeant. Sometimes the old RSM. But definitely considered an officer in our period....
... Jack, Other List Members, such as Don Hagist, may well be able to help you in more detail, but I have posted some basic answers below. ... Officially,...
Todd's Loyalist Institute website is a gold mine of info on the Civil Branches. J~ John M. Johnston Late Captn. 42d Grenr. Compy. "There is a fine line...
A friend of mine has a solar panel that he lays on top of his tent during the day to charge a battery..... and runs his machine all night long........... ...
Thanks for those pointers and the good egg advice. It leaves me still trying to interpret the appointment of a 24 year-old Volunteer as Quartermaster of 2/71st...