On the RevWar list, the subject of knapsacks painted with linseed oil came up. In case you might be thinking of doing that yourself, Lee Boyle warned with a statement from James Abeel, an officer of the Continental Army at Valley Forge, wrote to Jacob Weiss on 21 June 1778 ( Mss. 17,402, Library of Congress): "I received the burnt Knapsacks they ( Read more... )

If you haven't listened to the Living History Podcast, this is an excellent week to start. Stephen and Alena recapped ReenactorFest from a few weeks ago. It wasn't as much fun as actually being there, but it revived many warm memories: http://livinghistorypodcast.com/

Old pal Ian Uzzell--whom I've called Regia poster boy since I've seen his image in so many books, magazines and web pages and which you'll see came literally true at the Centre--has posted a set of pictures taken at the newly re-opened Jorvik Viking Centre: http://news. ( Read more... )

( Yeah, I know not all Scadians are like this, but I've seen this over and over myself )

But I'll use Roman numerals to be different and contrary ( Read more... )

You knew it was coming, didn't you? After the Jane Austin zombie ( Read more... )

Jeff was so nice to bring over someone with a working Le Mat. In our conversations, they mentioned that a Le Mat was seen in "Quick and the Dead;" on the way home, found it for a six spot at Borders, and I watched it today. A pretty mediocre movie, and they didn't stress the Le Mat at all, but there it was. Now I'd really like to see the back story ( Read more... )

Any fricking snow. I hate slipping, sliding and unloading the van in sub-freezing snow and tracking it into the house even less. On the other, my two missing issues of SKIRMISH showed up, we receivbed the blueprints for the faering and a friend at RF gave me a bunch of books of cinema studies. When my fingers get warm enough to turn pages, I know ( Read more... )

I've started to upload the photos between other stuff: http://www.flickr.com/photos/folo/sets/72157623381144296/

Another Reenactorfest!

( I had a great time but don't wanna bore you with the specifics )