I'm not sure. My wife is Shawnee, and while you would think that would make here MORE likely to get into history, I guess the fact that her people kind of got screwed out of everything that they ever knew in Lafayette makes her not so keen on attending.
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I've been trying to get her to go to that event for about three years now, and we never seem to make it. The year that I attended (a long time ago!) they had a game of lacrosse going on played in native garb. No one got their arm broken or anything, so it wasn't as authentic as it could have been (that's a joke!), but it was neat to see. Lots of vendors and friendly people who like to talk.
I convinced her to go to Blue Licks Battlefield with me over the summer and see the spot where her G-G-G-G-G- Grandfather killed my G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather, but that (combined with living in the woods with me for a month) is probably about as much frontier history as I'll be able to squeeze out of her in a year.
Is that big event the Pennsic War? I was reading on SCA.org about that. I'm not much on the whole chivalry, following orders, serving the king, angle- ACW reenacting broke me of that. I'd like to do some barbarian horde reenacting, personally. I've been reading about the Celts, the Franks, and the Vikings. I made a sling last night and went out in the back yard with my sons to hurl a hackey sack at each other with it. Wicked fun. Check out
http://www.slinging.org for some good resources on one of the oldest projectile weapons on the planet.