If I’m being honest, I’ve been going a little stir-crazy lately. It’s been hot and muggy, and I’ve really, really wanted to be on a mountain or by a large body of water. As I’ve lamented in the past, I don’t have friends with boats and lake houses to really enjoy the last dregs ofContinue reading “Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park”
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A Yankee’s first Civil War re-enactment: the silly and the serious
I went to a Civil War re-enactment on Saturday. It’s taken me a while to figure out how to blog about it; how to strike the right tone of respectful and incredulous. I grew up in New England. The war I studied as a kid (and remember studying) is the Revolutionary War. For me, theContinue reading “A Yankee’s first Civil War re-enactment: the silly and the serious”
Everything and a Racehorse 