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Dear Members of the Authentic-Campaigner,
Many of you may remember in one phase of this forum that Kathryn Coombs was a moderator for the civilian forum.
This is hard to write because Kathryn was a dear friend and mentor for me. However, her time has come to an end. She died in the evening of January 16, 2011 after a battle with cancer.
For those who know Kathryn, they will recall the memories of fun, puns, jokes, and her undying devotion to trying to get portrayals of the past correct down to the very glasses one drinks from. Her love of antiques she told me started when she was a child when she would hide away things members of her family would throw out in her closet.
On this forum and other listservs and forums, when moderator and when she was not, she shared images from her collection, photographs of ceramics and furnishings she owned. More than once she threw open the doors to her private, pre-Civil War house to members of our own organization (the Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society) but also to groups in North Carolina and to others who were just starting to reenact. She outfitted people with her own extra clothes and money. And indeed I can say she has helped finance a conference trip when I was in college.
I need not sing her praises I guess in any more depth than to say: Kathryn was not only MY friend (and a friend of many people on this forum) but she was a friend to history and to this forum's moderation.
Many of you may remember in one phase of this forum that Kathryn Coombs was a moderator for the civilian forum.
This is hard to write because Kathryn was a dear friend and mentor for me. However, her time has come to an end. She died in the evening of January 16, 2011 after a battle with cancer.
For those who know Kathryn, they will recall the memories of fun, puns, jokes, and her undying devotion to trying to get portrayals of the past correct down to the very glasses one drinks from. Her love of antiques she told me started when she was a child when she would hide away things members of her family would throw out in her closet.
On this forum and other listservs and forums, when moderator and when she was not, she shared images from her collection, photographs of ceramics and furnishings she owned. More than once she threw open the doors to her private, pre-Civil War house to members of our own organization (the Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society) but also to groups in North Carolina and to others who were just starting to reenact. She outfitted people with her own extra clothes and money. And indeed I can say she has helped finance a conference trip when I was in college.
I need not sing her praises I guess in any more depth than to say: Kathryn was not only MY friend (and a friend of many people on this forum) but she was a friend to history and to this forum's moderation.
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