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rmhttp://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/travel/escapes/27Reenact.html
I think it was the scrumptious girl in uniform in slide 11 that did me in or possibly this:
And the dance. Of course.
Ahhhhh.
You know what's good? That I don't drive. Because if I drove? I'd _always_ be running around to things like this.
(also, it's a really nice article in that it both _gets_ why people do this stuff and the rather legitimate and murky issues that can and do surround it).
I think it was the scrumptious girl in uniform in slide 11 that did me in or possibly this:
Some of the re-enactors eschewed weapons altogether. Over at the press hut, a crew of “war correspondents” had set up a period darkroom, developing black-and-white photos shot with an array of old-school cameras, aiming for prints that looked like they’d fallen out of a 1944 time capsule.
And the dance. Of course.
Ahhhhh.
You know what's good? That I don't drive. Because if I drove? I'd _always_ be running around to things like this.
(also, it's a really nice article in that it both _gets_ why people do this stuff and the rather legitimate and murky issues that can and do surround it).
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Date: 2009-02-27 07:10 pm (UTC)One friend, a fellow Brooklynite, was one of those photographers. He's normall the court photog for the Daily News and dresses 1940s every day.
There are a lot of WW2 reenactors in Gettysburg too--not too far of a trek for you two if Patty drives.