Jessie! Glad to know you're well. Have been trying to hear from any Louisiana Rgt. guys. I knew you'd find your way outta that mess. Have only heard from 3...
Gus, Jessie, and all, From what we can tell almost everyone made it out okay. The only guys unacounted for are Dave Smith Sr. and Jr. Charles, Amy, and I are...
Hi Jesse and all soldados, Hurricane Katrina is shaping up to be natural disaster of unheralded proportions. I personally have survived through at least 7 ...
Let me start off by saying I certainly did not intend to offend anyone with my email yestiddy. My emotions were high and I'm strung tight as a wire. It was...
Attention LA. Regt. If you are in the Alexandria/Pineville Area. I live in Pineville. Give me a call at 318-640-2357. If I can help a little I will. If...
I do not mean to digress this thread further, but calling God "mythological" and implying that there is always a link between religious people and religious...
One of my WWII reenacting buds is off to San Antonio in the morning! He'll be working for our state EOC! Our District met today. We're in stand by to stand...
Phil, I too do not want to belabor this topic, just want to clarify two things: one, I did NOT state or even implied that all people of faith are intolerant....
Apparently we got off on a rabbit trail (a jack rabbit trail at that) about religion. Thanks Nez for your help. It's difficult for me not to be able to go and...
Right now I'm at our local EOC as our agency's rep....... Waiting for evacs to arrive Le Nez ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Author Tony Horwitz, who's book "Confederates in the Attic" introduced the concept of "Hardcore" to the non-reenactment community is currently writing his next...
After a brief message from Tres I haven't heard from him or anyone. If anyone knows if there are any in the Central Louisiana Area I would like to know. ...
Apparently this jackass Horwitz deliberately chooses subject matter of which he is totally ignorant to write about. Confederates in the Attic displayed his...
Hola! I have to respectfully disagree with this view of Tony Horowitz' book, "Confederates in the Attic," which I enjoyed. The entire point of the book was...
Lets see...if I recall the book's "story", Horwitz has a thing for the Civil War, wakes up one morning to find "hardcore" Silly War, er... Civil War reenactors...
Hoo Boy .... I knew I shouldn't have sent that e-mail! I feel extra bad because I think this is a time when we need to bury negativity and criticism in the...
... portrayed reenactors/living history types assumed that he was actually knowledgeable about the hobby and that what he was portraying was gospel truth. ...
Ahh! The well fed Army of Virginia. If you are going to go to all the trouble to use linen thread and brain tan, then you need to look at your physical...
It cracked me up a lot when I read Hodge's quote in the article. The same article goes on to say that the first guys who tend to "take a hit" are those too...
The Gran Quivera Conference will be held in Tucson on October 6-8 http://www.cdarc.org/pages/articles.php?req=read&article_id=139 XXXIV Gran Quivira...
Dud!!!!!! I certainly hope I do not offend anyone....... My name is Le Nez,,,,,,, And I'm a drunkard...... We've had LOOOOOONG discussions in the woods on...
If'n you don't toot yer own horn, it won't get tooted! Nuthin' there to be 'shamed of. I should know, working fer the Feds, especially around evaluation time....
I started CW reenacting in 1973. Last event I attended was in 1977. But I never really got out of Living history. Escept for the 8 years or so I was...
The Old NRS!!!!!!! I was a mamber! That would have been Guy Airey From Vidor!!!!!!!!! Ever hit any of the old reenactments at Asphodel Plantation???? What...
I have made myself a new corkscrew! dud moklahuta@... wrote: Dud!!!!!! I certainly hope I do not offend anyone....... My name is Le Nez,,,,,,, And I'm a...
I gotcha! I am the same age and don't really do Civil War stuff anymore for exactly the same reason. No one my age would be out there on a battlefield ...
Le Nez: Ran into an interesting situation in reference to what you mentioned about people not taking us seriously as "reputable" historians. I was talking to...
LOL!!!!! I put the archaeologist in charge (Dr. Helen DeWolf) of the "La Belle" artifact conservation project at Texas A & M Univ. onto a website run by two...