From: We Reenact : Journal
Date: October 7,2008
During this difficult time in our era it is hard to find a job and easier to volunteer for something. We suggest that if you are interested in reenacting or history in general to volunteer at your local historic society, organization or group. We recently join ours and are learning more about our area and how it contributed as a piece of our American History. It gives you access to information that would not be normally known. They do have some flaws though they only have the information that your location has been able to save through out generations. If they dealt with fires and other disastors that were common through out American history then they may only have information up to a certain date or what has been donated to them.
So far we have learned that one of our towns in our county was not always where it stands to day. That the original town was burned by the British during the 1812 war. That the reason why our county does not hold information until after the civil war because it had to deal with 4 fires through out its history. When town were first build before they had court houses or historic societies; they used to have a secretary or treasury who would hold the county’s information until they passed it on to another secretary or treasury who would hold it for another length of time. Through out those switches information may have gotten lost or destroyed.
On October 10th the “Most Haunted” team will be doing a live broadcast at Gettysburg PA. If you are into the paranormal or even history this may have been a big discussion among people you hang out with or talk online. With this topic it brought a lot of issue of how people perceive ghost hunting, park service, and the United State in general. For the past couple of years Gettysburg has been going through a lot changes. One they recently build a larger museum and store while clearing up the battlefield. Some agree with the clearing of forts, battlefields and etc to make them look similar to what they did before or after an event/battle. This goes with the idea rather people should be really walking around at night looking for the dead.
There is a certain point that I think that we forget why these historic places like forts, towns, and battlefields are here.
1. Some one saw there historic value and decided to save them before future generations destroy them.
2. To educate the future about the historic event or era that it is portraying.
3. To honor the dead so that the future does not forget what occurred on that location.
4. National and States Parks to help preserve both wildlife and American history.
5. Etc and other reasons for someone to save them to form a national, state, private or public park/museum.
So does this mean we should be walking around at night to find there spirits or destroying wildlife so we can preserve the land how it looked like after or before war? We have to question our actions on rather or not it is respecting that history or the dead. When is to far to far……..
At the end its lifting and interesting to see where those places are that you have been reading in books. Gives you a better appreciation for that part of history and those who made it. As well as those who continue to make history today…
