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Marching Through Time (MTT) April 16-17, 2011
Sir William:
--- Quote from: James Barker on 2011-03-25, 13:05:49 ---Marching Through Time (MTT) April 16-17, 2011
Marietta Mansion 5626 Bell Station Road Glenn Dale, Md. 20769
Spend the day at our annual multi-period living history encampment including re-enactors from 1st century Romans through 20th century World War II and more. Demonstrations include camp and domestic life, cooking, crafts, weaponry, and military drills. Also featuring period merchants and food. No pets please. Free parking at Glenn Dale Community Center with continuous shuttle service to event.
This is a great event for people with an interest in history. Wolf and myself will be portraying archers in Lord Grey's Retinue.
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Where in the event will you guys be situated? I'd like to come say hey if that's possible. I'm trying to bring my daughter there but we'll see...you know how teen girls are.
Sir Wolf:
had a great time, even had 50 ppl come in the rain on saturday. but sunday WOAH it was packed!
was great seeing you Sir William, wheres your pictures? hehehe
Sir William:
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.
Thorsteinn:
And there was a duel there too!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumd9wABcYk[/youtube]
The story for said duel can be found here:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=132675
Sir Wolf:
yup thats me in the green/red livery doublet. kevin (shorter guy) is wearing my jack, helmet and gauntlets. james is using my sword
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