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mdopeningWelcome to our Research & Journal Blog!
Take a journey with us to discover history and the reenacting community. Walking the steps of our ancestors through the 18th and 19th century by visiting historic towns, battlefields and going to living history, and reenacting events in order to understand the lives of those who shaped American and World History.  As well as discover what it take to interpretate and reenact history.

2008 has brought them face to face with the American Revolution, 1812 War, and Encampments of the Confederate and Union Army. As the year closes no one can tell what they may face.  2009 has started with American Revolution and how all the different eras of Europe and American have related with one another.

The following included pages on this blog and our Reenactors Weekly Blog.  We hope this clears up some of the confusions.

FAQ: This page was created to answer any questions that have been asked from viewers of our website wereenact.  As well as common questions that we have heard that reenactors have been asked by spectators that we know the answer too.  Late within in our Question sub page we will include answers that we have asked that we have gotten answers from Reenactors and facebook.  If there are any questions please feel free to ask; we would be more then happy to answer them.

Questions Sub Page: We recently edited this account and in the process deleted our monthly question page.  We now have signed up for facebook since April 13,2009 and are using that to ask any question we or our viewers may have.  We hope in the future to post some of the answers onto this account.  We are getting a huge amount of information and support from our viewers on facebook.  If you would to take part in any of our discussion you can find us on facebook by clicking here.

Travel Journal: This will be our personal accounts of how we view or participate in the Reenacting community as spectators.  It is also our accounts of what occurs during any living history and Reenacting events that we go too.

Research Notes: This will be included within our Research Page. It will include information from lectures and living history events we have gone to.  It is verbal information or accounts that we have gain that we will later research based on written accounts.

Research:belair_mansion_1 This is where we will place our notes that we have written after reading books, magazines and other references that we learned during our research on the American Revolution, Civil War and other times in history.  It will be also helpful to those who are interested in reading a book to see what it may be about.

Reenactors Weekly:  Is a blog that we created to connect with our website “we reenact“.  This will include our About Us, Classified, Media and New Recruits Pages.  The main objective of this blog is to interact and gain more information from our viewers who visit our site.  So that they have somewhere to post information, events and there site as well as learn a little bit more who is creating this site.

At the end we hope in the future we will become the top reenacting,reenactors site for information and updates.  As well as connect reenactors to those who are interested in becoming part of their community and those who may not interpret their era but still part of the reenacting community.  There is so much information out there and alot of it is being uphold where it makes it difficult for those who are interested in history or reliving it.

Instead of making the Reenacting community a private and closed community. Lets make it a more opened community where historic places, reenactors and the public can worked together to help preserve our world and its history…..

2009 Season

Last year we went to a total of five reenacting events and meant alot of new people.  This year we are going to double that number to at least 10 events for this reeancting season.  This seaoson officially started for us on February 15th, 2009.  It won’t start up again until sometime in April, since everything for this month seems to be a little further away from us.

Like I said before our goal for this season is to go to at least 10 events for the whole year.  Hopefully we can do a wide arrangement of events and not stick with the typical Civil War and America Revolutionary War.  As we tour around Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania for this season,  I’ll  start a list that has the events and dates we go for this season.  As the season starts and ends continue to look for journal entries and galleries within our traverlers journal/website.

2009 Season:
To view our observations and what happened during this reenacting season please click here. Here are the current events that have been posted. 

1. February 15, 2009 - Presidents’ Day Revolutionary Reenactment  
Alexandria, VA

2. April 19, 2009 - Marietta House  Military Through Time  
Glenn Dale, MD

3. April 25, 2009 – Southern Maryland Celtic Festival
St. Leonard, MD

What’s New??

I’m really bad at updating, and posting entres onto this website, but I’ve been very busy with graphic and web projects.   Better than not being busy at all especially when the economy is as it is.  Also ready a lot about 18th Century and 19th Century life.  There are many great books that speak just about the lives and people of the time period.  The series I’ve been reading is called “Daily Life during the American Revolution” and Daily Life in Civil War America. I hope to be done reading a publish some of the notes I’ve written from both books sometime late February to mid March.  Once I’ve finished these two books and the projects I’m currently working on;  I hope to write a little bit more.

new year

New Year1Happy Holidays & New Year Everyone!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here…  To start here are a few article ideas or things I’ve been interesting in finding more about since I’m interested in possibly reenacting the 18th Century or 19th Century.  I’ll cross them as I research them, and find material on the subject.

Possible Articles for 2009:

1. Fashion during the 18th & 19th Century
2. Women of the American Revolution (detail on campfollowers)
3. Women of the American Civil War
4. Duties women had during 18th & 19th Century and how they changed?
5. What they ate in the past? Specifically in camp & find more recipes)
6. The world of reenacting in female perspective.
7. Songs & music from the past.
8. Women portraiture through the ages.
9. Must haves for the newrecruit.  (What you need during 1yr of reenacting.)