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Wilderness Woman
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 Posted - August 02 2009 : 7:46:35 PM
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - August 02 2009 : 8:27:15 PM
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But look really close. Do you see the pigtails in front of the ears? Really adds just that final touch! Darned nuisance in a wind, though. Now where, may I ask, would you see that on an Englishman? Wait! I know! Put LOTM on the DVD player and look at "Camron's Cabin". John Cameron has the hair, just not braided. I would have been a natural for that scene.  |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 02 2009 : 9:03:08 PM
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Oh, yes... I saw them. ~ snort ~ Pretty ridiculous, IMHO.
Btw.... don't you think they could have moved those soccer goals off the field for us??? Those and the picnic tables on the beach spoiled the affect a little bit. |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - August 03 2009 : 12:37:34 AM
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Moving the goals would have been good. And wouldn't have been all that much work. We were on the far left of the line and actually had the goal in the middle of our unit. I have heard that is past years they had battles on the parking lot. I missed the Sunday morning battle because I was getting my stock branded, and the guy doing it was leaving early that day. Before the Friday afternoon battle, I was taking a nap under a tree when they called us for a photo. Seems that a painter of period pictures wanted an action shot of a fierce milicen charge, so a group of us, including Daniel Roy, posed for it. The painting is supposed to be completed by December and for our efforts we get a small print which I will post (naturally). Spoiled a good nap, but I guess it was worth it. This was just before the battle of the soccer field.
Most of the action for us was defending the cannon closest to the lake. It was good there.
You should have been in the fort at night. Between the Indians and the Compagnie de la Corne times were good! |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 03 2009 : 10:41:38 AM
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Good Heavens, NO! I would not be brave enough to venture into the enemy fort, most especially at night. At least, not without at least 4 big, brawny Greencoated men surrounding me.
Besides, I had no need. We had our own special time in the British camp. The campfire was blazing, the Port was flowing, the camaraderie was most enjoyable. Plus, we had Joey Hall (Father, Son & Friends) giving a glorious 2-hour performance just 2 doors down from us. Several of us walked down to enjoy it up close. It was wonderful!
I will say, though..... as I was standing there enjoying the music --Joey, his son, and a young woman fiddler, who was absolutely fantastic! -- a group of several "French" people came walking up. One of the young men set down the fiddle case he was carrying, opened it, took out his fiddle and went to join in the jam session.
Talk about Dueling Banjos! This was Dueling Fiddles! He was just as fantastic as she was! No matter what they three of them played, he could join right in. I assume he was doing much of it by ear and improvisation. Wow! I haven't enjoyed anything so much in a long time. It was great! |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - August 03 2009 : 11:31:36 AM
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| The weekend after Niagara, the New Acquisition Militia brought FS&F to the event at Brattonsville, SC, and we listened to them until 2:00AM Sat and Sun. They are great entertainment, but not at all 18th century. That was the thing about the fort. It was all 18th century in there, whether Indian or French. For Brattonsville I don't care. Enough rum makes it all blend together, but for a place like Niagara, I really liked the fact the fort kept it period. |
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Posted - August 03 2009 : 12:34:57 PM
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Originally posted by Fitzhugh Williams
They are great entertainment, but not at all 18th century.
Oh, very true, and I knew that. But, it was such rollicking great fun... and such good music that I didn't care. I'm a violinist, so I just enjoyed those fiddlers s-o-o-o-o much! |
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Posted - August 04 2009 : 12:08:57 PM
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Hahaha!!! Ya got me! I was all prepared to be really ticked off that someone had gone ahead and had a re-enactment!
Actually... that looks like a whole lot of fun for a hot summer day! |
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Posted - August 04 2009 : 1:49:58 PM
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This is what one Canadien reenactor had to say about it:
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You remember that the battle of the plains of Abraham ( with Louisbourg the only F&I war commemoration outside the USA) had been cancelled .
It would have been this last week-end , and the day was still free on the summer schedule of the parc . So Marteau Napoli , a jackass type event organiser working at a local trash/rock radio station organised a great water pistol battle .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkw48E_6vWw&feature=related
The last minute event was a complete success . I can see a local tradition beginning . Years from now nobody will remember the failure or the historical reenactment event . Journalists will say " to commemorate the 1759 battle that so changed history , people gather with water pistols ....." It is evident that there is no commemoration at all , some people do not want to remember and made this goofy activity to obscure some more this day in history .
In the P. of A . event you would have seen natives fighting along with the milice on the north part of the field , sniping at the Highlanders . They would have been " whites portraying natives " ( 99% of them Americans ) , as the descendent of the Hurons-Wendat have no reenacting group * I am quite certain there would have been complaints on monday morning . Notice that at the water pistol battle there were pirates , a squirrel mascot , Batman, vampires , even a flame thrower but no Natives real or false, they have been ereased of the popular memory .
And they do not complain about it .
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Posted - August 04 2009 : 6:10:38 PM
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I had no idea that actually took place in Quebec City sort of as a sterilized substitute, since I don't read French and I thought you were being facetious. Wow. That really makes the whole thing incredibly ridiculous. Fun for people in Los Angeles to cool off with, maybe, but certainly not fun as a substitute for an important historical event that decided the fate of a people.
Yeah.... as we've discussed before, the Quebecois really just have no clue. |
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Posted - August 04 2009 : 10:35:49 PM
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| Could you imagine that happening at, say, Gettysburg? Same thing. Those people simply have no clue. |
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Posted - October 06 2009 : 12:48:34 PM
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Just as I was walking out my door on Friday to head down to Warrior Run Heritage Days in Pennsylvania, I took my mail out of the mailbox. Lo and behold... there was my commemorative DVD of the Fort Niagara 250th! I came pretty close to sitting down right then to watch it, but I was running a little late already, so I resisted the urge.
As I looked at the collage of photos on the cover, I realized that I was looking at someone familiar in one of them. It seems that a certain fro..... er... cough.... Frenchman.... wearing a goofy-looking red hat has managed to get himself on the dvd cover. ~ sigh ~ Wouldn't you just figure?
Someone else in our regiment received his copy the other day, and he watched it. He said that our group got some pretty good footage, as well. I'm anxious to watch it. |
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Posted - October 06 2009 : 2:58:59 PM
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| Mine arrived while I was at Fort Dobbs last weekend. I didn't notice the cover. I will have to take a look. I did watch about two hours of the footage and there is still plenty left. I did see myself in the surrender scene being approached by some savauge. We were making jokes and it looks like I am about to laugh. And the lace maker is Lynn White, the secretary of our unit. |
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