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Title: You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
Post by: Sturmkatze on March 12, 2008, 08:36:43 PM
You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
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Title: Re: You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
Post by: Rockman on March 16, 2008, 11:41:02 AM
Re. Being asked if you are Amish.... kind of a reverse version....  While traveling through Indiana Amish country to make a pit stop at a convenience store, several local Amish guys were buying sandwiches to take to a construction site they were working on, were giving me the "eye", as I was in my civilian colonial clothes, heading to an event.  One obviously curious, approached me to ask, "Sir, are you a... 'reenactor' ?" Replying that I was, he smiled quite broadly and said " Well that explains it... because you know, we get asked that all the time, by people passing through!" ;D
Title: Re: You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
Post by: Sturmkatze on March 16, 2008, 01:47:14 PM
That's great! I've never been asked if I was Amish (I do WWI and WWII mostly), but I have been asked if I was a "Coonfederate" this, while wearing a WWI German uniform... then, when we explained to the clerk that it was WWI German, he said, "Oh ya mean with Hitler?" "No", said we, that was WWII... separate wars... "Oh", said he, "ah didn't know that... I larned somethin' different taday" (This was in Ohio... which explains it) and yes, this was how he talked.  :-X
Title: Re: You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
Post by: colonial character on September 10, 2008, 09:39:49 PM
The guys doing the traffic stop are staring at you really strangely, and you can't figure out why--as you sit in the van, in full colonial outfit, with your children, who are also in colonial outfits.
Title: Re: You Know You?re a Reenactor If:
Post by: Sterling on September 11, 2008, 08:43:16 PM
Re. Being asked if you are Amish....


Used to get that all the time when doing Wild West... now with the pirates, I get, especially with the hat, the Quaker Oatmeal Man ... OR Am I the rep from Samuel Adams beer...