Confessions of a Living Historian: A Civil War Reenactor’s Decade of Humor, History, and Unplanned Adventures

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ÒConfessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War ReenactorÓ is the story of Darin RichardsonÕs first ten years as a Civil War reenactor in the most unlikeliest of places: Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This book chronicles his beginnings as a reenactor up to the time he quit the hobby, then his return to it in recent years.
This book has it all: Escaped mental patients; ÒThe Edwin Incident;Ó ÒK-Mart Confederates;Ó drunken escapades; ÒWeasel and the Hicks,Ó two Òsocial diseasesÓ; skinny-dipping at reenactments; the ÒRebel Rap;Ó firearm blunders; interesting uses for coffee; an encounter with Bigfoot; nightmare trips to California reenactments; sexual encounters; belly dancers; a guy named Dub; Òhunaha, hu;Ó being misquoted in newspapers; a trip of a lifetime to Tennessee and Georgia; The Ten Constants of Reenacting; outrageous questions asked by spectators, and views on ÒhardcoreÓ reenactors and women who portray soldiers.

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