The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Images > Quality Images and Videos

Quality Images and Videos Post your own images and videos of your own days

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-10-2011, 11:01 PM   #1531
Big Sarge
Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In the Deep South
Posts: 3,408
WowNirvana. You have that view and all I have is the old sewage lagoon. sigh
__________________
Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Big Sarge is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-10-2011, 11:05 PM   #1532
plthijinx
Master Dwellar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,197
Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman View Post
puh. I wouldn't go anywhere till the snow melted.

That or I'd be too busy Ice skating

hey! i test snow melt panels!!
__________________
For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.
plthijinx is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 07:08 AM   #1533
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
Yesterday I went with my son's cub scout den to a Civil War reenactment of the battle of Cedar Creek. I'd never been to one of these before. It was an interesting view of a culture I'd never seen before. These reenactors spend thousands of dollars to buy their own gear and costumes and they join the battle just for the experience. They don't get paid.

They buy reproductions of period tents and camp the whole weekend using only period camping gear (at least the stuff left out in the open. Maybe they had down sleeping bags and air mattresses inside the tents.)

There are vendors who have larger period tents set up off to the side, and they sell most of the stuff that the reenactors need. So you could just walk up to one of these events and buy everything you need to join in on the fun.
Attached Images
  

Last edited by glatt; 10-16-2011 at 07:28 AM.
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 07:15 AM   #1534
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
They started off the action with a little skirmish between two mounted groups. Not much gun fire, but lots of clanging sabers. Nobody "died" during this, because I guess they didn't want to fall off their horses.
Attached Images
  
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 07:21 AM   #1535
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
Then the two armies marched on each other and just basically fired volleys at one another from a short distance. The Confederates did well during this part of it, and drove the Union soldiers back. More people "died," but seriously, I don't think it was historically accurate. Out of a couple hundred people shooting at each other over a distance of about 50 yards, only a dozen people died. This was cool to watch. They also had cannons behind the lines going off.
Attached Images
  
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 07:24 AM   #1536
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
And they stopped the reenactment at this point. Today, they continue it, and I understand the Union will regroup and push the Rebels back again. But we're not going back out there to watch that.

Here, the Confederates are marching back to their camp after the battle.
Attached Images
  
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 07:27 AM   #1537
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
Name:  P1270807.JPG
Views: 269
Size:  145.1 KB

Judging from the license plates in the parking lot, I think these reenactors come from all over the East Coast, and once they have purchased all the gear, they probably participate in one reenactment after another, much like deadheads following the Dead around on tour.
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 09:28 AM   #1538
plthijinx
Master Dwellar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,197
excellent pics glatt! I'd love to see a reenactment. later today i'm going to the Wings Over Houston Airshow and should have plenty of pics of that later on....
__________________
For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.
plthijinx is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 11:48 AM   #1539
classicman
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
glatt - great pics. I haven't seen a reenactment in decades. I gotta look around here and see whats up.
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt
classicman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 02:51 PM   #1540
Lola Bunny
Junior Master Dwellar
 
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 2,728
Looks super cool.
Lola Bunny is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 02:56 PM   #1541
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
Awesome pics glatt.

We had a little demo at the Soldiers and Soldiering conference, put on by a couple of reenactors (not sure, but I think they're from the 33rd Foot). Fascinating stuff.

A lot of what we know about uniforms and marching ephemera, we know because of the re-enactment community. Formal, and informal historians who work through experimental history and try to reconstruct, from fragmentary evidence and the odd throw away line in a memoir, the backpacks, and blankets, and uniforms as they'd have been used. There are people who've spent 25-30 years trying to piece together exactly what the back pack was like for a foot soldier in the latter stages of the Peninsula war for instance.
__________________
Quote:
There's only so much punishment a man can take in pursuit of punani. - Sundae
http://sites.google.com/site/danispoetry/
DanaC is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 05:07 PM   #1542
BrilliantDisguise
Master of the Domain
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 224
Great pictures glatt! I really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks!
BrilliantDisguise is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 05:28 PM   #1543
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
I went to a re-enactment of the Battle of Franklin-Nashville, on the original battlefield. At that time it was said to be one of the larger re-enactments til that time, about 25,000 participants. There was a company of re-enactors, I think they were all from Texas, who were stunt-men/extras for the movies. They would roll off their horses at full gallop, the horses dropped like they'd been shot, too. They put on a hell of a show. Interestingly, when the riders fell/got shot, the horses stopped almost in their last steps, and stayed rooted to that spot, till their rider got up and came and got them. All of them did this, every one.

Also, these guys (all the re-enactors) are hard core. At the one I went to, there was literally white canvas tents by the thousands. Root beer brewed on site, 1860s style. Kept the bottle.

I have all this on Sony 8mm videotape. Yeah, I know, great decision. $1000 well-wasted.
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-16-2011, 05:32 PM   #1544
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
There were also black re-enactors. Something I'd never thought about. There were soldiers, servants, maids. A surprising number of them, in fact.
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2011, 02:02 PM   #1545
plthijinx
Master Dwellar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,197
Yesterday Bob, my roommate and I went to the Wings over Houston airshow. here are a few pics and some of these planes i'd posted before in another thread from the flight museum that they live at currently. i'll post a few more pictures later on. but for now here's several...
Attached Images
    
__________________
For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.
plthijinx is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:49 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.