Well everyone is covering the bases pretty well and I couldn't agree more. Reenactors can do a good job of transmitting info that is accurate by doing much what Banj mentioned which is have a point of reference and explain that this is the way we can portray it without having a budget in the billions!

And Devil's Advocate states it clearly! There is a limit to the authenticity and a good reenactor will talk about those things. This guy who wrote the article must be absolute hell on reenacted battles! Like where does he find the guys to lie wounded and then burn to death when the brush catches fire and they can't move? Might be a job he'd take on himself.

But there is an element of humor there you know? I particularly liked this statement:

"Folk musicians were not historians; they were out to make money, and anyone involved in history knows you can't make money in this gig."

What is that? First, only a few get very rich in "folk music" OR history, and this guy seems to be saying that he who makes less is the most truthful. On that basis, I am now going to take all my queries about everything to the wino living in the Amana box behind the Deli.

Spaw