Yea, I went on Sunday- it was great meeting Sirs Wolf and James (Barker) - not to mention the collection of arms and armor you fellows brought with you. Initially, I thought I'd missed it (thought it was just the one day, Saturday, which I spent the ENTIRE day on the road going to pick up my daughter; 6 hours to get to Richmond- the return trip took less than 2 hours, go figure!)
I have to say, the attention to detail was incredible...it is one thing to read about how things were back then and another to see an accurate representation. I was tempted to abscond with the contents of a couple of those cookpots around...everyone was in period garb according to their respective era. It wasn't as off-putting as I thought it would be to see 20th century soldiery mixed in with Roman, medieval and near-Renaissance re-enactors but they pretty much kept them separated - personally I feel the pre-20th C performers should've been in the upper field front and center but that's just my take on it.
Let me see, the ambience was great, I did get to hear some demonstrations (musket fire, cannon fire) but I missed the skirmish between Lord Grey's retinue and those in the other camp, their leader had a pristine suit of armor that was definitely drool-worthy...so was his squire's come to think on it.
The pics are forthcoming, Sir Wolf- I uploaded them to the shared drive at home but I didn't have time to get them up on PB- I'll try to get them on there tonight. I did take some good shots...a lot more than I thought I had. I thought I'd only taken like 5 but there were quite a few more.
