Just curious if anyone has any info on the uniforms, arms and equipment that the Spanish garrisons in Fernandina and St. Augustine were using/wearing during...
Just a reminder for any soldados who haven't heard of the annual (1809) Napoleonic Peninsula War reenactment in Anza, CA. They need Spanish soldados of all...
Hi, On Sunday March 30 there will be artillery training for the Spanish Louisiana and friends at Sully Historic Site (Chantilly, Virginia). Our instructor will...
Just a comment on the note regarding women cannoneers. (By the way, I wish I COULD be there in Virginia.) I recently learned that the Spaniards have their own...
Posting this for Jim Aceves! ... Hola Historical Interpreters/Re-enactors, Mission San Antonio Day is fast approaching (Saturday, April 12). I need to provide...
The Castillo de San Marcos, NM in St. Augustine, Florida hosts a semi-annual NPS cannon school training 18th c. artillery students in Spanish 1740 garrison...
A DAY OF MUSIC IN SPANISH AND MEXICAN CALIFORNIA From: Aaron Olivas <amarcord80@...> Saludos a todos, I thought those of you who plan on being in the...
Actually, the event begins at Noon. We are conducting a free workshop for classroom and music teachers for teaching historical California music and dance from...
Hi, Would there be any video recordings available of the workshops and activities? I'm stuck here in the east coast and can't make it but have been looking for...
A Eliud re video of teacher workshop: Mi amigo: At this point, no, I hadn't heard tell of a video. But I will email and ask Rose Marie if anybody within Santa...
Hello everyone, I havn't comunicated on this site for some time. I have "thumbed" through the New Mexico Colorado Spanish Diccionario, but I would also be...
Hello all, I cleaned up the Sutler area in the Links section. Check it out. I got rid of a few broken links (although I was so sad that Kaibab Moccasins...
Aiii, Lance, Steve Clugston, you other musicos, there are no links to makers of the proper kind of instruments. We need that (as well as more sources of...
Did anyone see the first two chapters of the HBO miniseries "John Adams"? Hector Diaz, Eric Cardona and myself were extras in the winter camp scene where John...
I saw it and was surprisingly pleased. I will see it again when it repeats and look for you guys. Where you standing, carrying arms, at the fire. David...
There really isn't going to be a single source for musical instruments. A person could use a standard violin, so that's easy enough. As for wind instruments, a...
In an April 25, 2005, post by Richard Greggory Grant, he referrs to photos of lanceros using desjarretadera (hocking knives) or lanceros de media Luna...a...
... Go under Files and then lancers and you will see lancers de media luna. I believe David Rickman has the full photo. Richard Grant ... de ... am ... Past...
Hi, Hector and Eric we sitting next to a fire in a cold, winter camp scene. I was bundled up, limping along with a musket on my shoulder in a scene where Adams...
What! is the deal with with rubbing dirt on the faces of the soldiers in all of the movies on the History Channel? I watched the Revolution and some other...
Unearthing First America: La Florida by Land and Sea Florida has one of the most remarkable and least known chapters in American colonial history. The Spanish...
I think this is generally true of all productions. When I worked on the Alamo movie, they would put so much crud on my face I looked like I was in a magazine...
Baron von Steuben's regulations for the Continental Army required the men to wash their hands and faces and comb their hair once a day, and bathe as frequently...
It looks like the costume people are doing their best. In the court seen, the working people had working caps! By this time whigs were to look like whigs with...
I had the same fight with David Wright when we were filming "First Invasion, the War of 1812". He wanted us to be covered in movie dirt when we were portraying...
It's amazing what some people think about time before the 20th century. They think everyone below the rank of "Hiz Lordship" walked around looking like...
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