Reenacting More or Less?

[Tyler Underwood]

Re: Reenacting More or Less?

Hallo!

Hmmmmm. Over 1600 views, only slightly over 60 "votes."

Curt

Perhaps we should create a poll to see if people are voting more, less or about the same? ;)

[MarkTK36thIL]

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Unfortunately for myself; teaching/coaching and the weekend a month training eliminates a lot of events that I had wanted to go to before. Then there's the people I've never met, but now required to go to their parties/weddings as a result of marriage has kept me from adding a few more notches to my reenacting belt.

[Hairy Nation Boys]

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With three kids(and one on the way) I have found that it is much harder to get out anymore now that they are older. I go to two maybe three events a year. When my two oldest were little I went to 6-7 events a year. Now trying to find a weekend where they don't have something going on is difficult. I will say I am glad I made a lot of events that I did in the 90s and early 2000s.

[WpnsMan]

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Since the 150th cycle ended I have been doing less,

Work and .mil commitments have kept me from doing most of the events I have wanted to attend this season as well as the 150th. I missed all of 1862 due to a deployment.

I have more or less focused on doing quality LH programs for the Park Service and a local museum. The ability to interact with the public and show them an accurate portrayal of Soldiers has more allure than simply burning powder regardless if it is advertised as a "Quality Event", "Adjunct" or, a "Farb Fest."

[Spinster]

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The end of the 150ths has meant fewer work weekends, planning meetings, site rides, property reviews, mail to answer, and endless conference calls from hell :), and then the calls before and after the conference calls.

This leaves more time for the wheel and the loom, much more time in the 18th century, and a lot of time in original documents and material culture. Quality civilian opportunities continue to be where we make them.

[TKlas]

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Less for sure. Three boys, work, and other volunteer efforts have taken a toll. Still enjoy attending events, hosting events, just less than years ago. 2-3 event club. Looking forward to 2017. Just ask my pards the last time I was able to crank out a unit newsletter. : ).

[tooch14]

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I have done drastically less in the last two years unfortunately. Just a combination of different life events. With my active hiatus though has come a lot of new research to help with my impression, so not all bad has come from it. I plan on ending my hiatus come next years season.

[Tyler Gibson]

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Much less in the last few years. Between Uncle Sam owning me for a while and now working and being a full time student, it's hard to pick and choose which events I can and cannot attend.

[Andy Ackeret]

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Less than before....but I did so many events every year from circa 2004 to 2010 that it was difficult to keep that up. Now I usually seem to do 1 or 2 long travel events per year and several more within an hour or two of home.

[John Meece]

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Unfortunately I have only done a training camp since 150th Shiloh due to getting ill at the event but also a lot of life stuff including retiring and moving to SC...but I'm hoping to get back in the groove very soon now that "life" is calming down.

[jm951]

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Real life brought me pretty much to a complete halt after the 135th cycle. Kids were growing up fast and I made a decision rather than reenact to spend more family time with them. Thing is, I got older in the process and haven't been back to an event but am still reading and learning. I'm now getting a pretty decent "fix" by competing in the NSSA, but toying with the idea of doing events again.