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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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 Posted - June 13 2004 : 06:50:19 AM
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The weather promises to be as fine as it was yesterday so if you are in the area, go to Johnstown NY and visit the fair. A plethora of sutlers with everything from herbs and fine cloth and soap and musical instruments and firelocks and accoutrements to tinware and leather goods and furniture. Entertainment includes a magician, a slack rope artist, a sword swallower, and a Punch and Judy show. I found my captain and a couple of Rangers but missed Seamus. I think I heard Chauncey's name mentioned. The home of Sir William Johnson and the two blockhouses are open. Great bargains!
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Fitz Williams
Colonial Militia
USA
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Posted - June 13 2004 : 12:29:12 PM
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| Would the slack rope artist be Signora Bella? I have seen her perform at Camden and Fort Loudoun. |
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Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 08:27:17 AM
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KURT!!!!!
I am sorry we did not connect........and, yes, Chauncey was there selling fabrics right across from the Lye Soap lady. She had her goods spread on a blanket and was doing a brisk business. I was there with her frequently, sitting on the bench beside her space, usually. I was dressed in a long filthy, stained light tannish hunting shirt, wearing a quilled neck-knife sheath, quilled leg-ties over deerskin leggings, leather belt with a belt knife tucked under it on the left side, a very primitive hunting bag and rawhide-repaired powder horn, a tomahawk in a shoulder strapped sheath hanging down across my back, a coarse linen haversack of a dark amber color. My hat is turned up in the back, has a 7 "turkey feather stuck through the front of the hemp rope band,and there is a bullet hole through the left side of the turned-up back, and a bullet-clipped edge on the left front of the brim. I was carrying a FINE early Pennsylvania rifle, a John Schreit (1761, Womelsdorf, Berks County, PA) clone. Maybe that description will help! I do have a photo of that vision somewhere around here.....maybe I can find it and post it for you. You may have seen me without realizing what you were looking at! Man! So close! I am truly sorry I missed you......will you be at Ticonderoga June 26th and 27th? I will, and it will be easier for you to find me there, as we (the Pennsylvanians) will be in green coats and the camp flags will easily indicate the location of the camp.
Fitz, it was, indeed, Signora Bella, the slack rope artist. She is a great entertainer....in her act and in a social setting at our camp. Otto, the juggler and sword swallower also performed to his usual perfection! He is scaringly amazing when he "deep throats" that sword! Man! It makes me queasy every time he does it! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
USA
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 09:44:01 AM
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Good Heavens, Seamus! I'm not sure I would have recognized you either!! A far cry from your usual tidiness.
Is this... "vision-of-cleanliness" ( )... perhaps what I should look for at Newtown? |
"It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imaginings could possibly have been." |
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Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 09:54:31 AM
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Yup!!
Woods rabble R us! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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Gadget Girl
Gatherer of Gathering Gadgets
USA
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May 17 2002
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 10:07:51 AM
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You DO have a way with words, Darlin'!
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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 1:50:49 PM
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Hi Seamus,
I wasn't sure about walk-ons so while I was breaking in the Fugawes and trying to scruff-up the haversack, I was otherwise out of uniform. I brought my goodwife to give her an idea of what events are like but I don't think she is interested in slaving over a smokey fire or chewing the leather soft but she said she had a good time. I think I've run across a picture of your longhunter impression but I wasn't thinking in that direction Saturday. Maybe the flags and uniforms will make it easier to meet at Ti. |
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Fitz Williams
Colonial Militia
USA
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Posted - June 14 2004 : 1:58:57 PM
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Otto, the juggler and sword swallower also performed
I think I have seen Otto somewhere, maybe at Fort Toulouse last November. Sounds like you had a good event! |
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alikws
Colonial Settler
USA
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October 23 2003
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Posted - June 21 2004 : 09:26:02 AM
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| on that theme, anyone planning on ti or michigan grand encampment?... planning to try to make both... and this years ti event will be on not the usual getting to be too known battlefield... |
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Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
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Posted - June 21 2004 : 4:05:08 PM
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| I will be at Ti, but not the GE in Michigan.......look for me in the Pennsylvania camp! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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Posted - June 21 2004 : 6:19:37 PM
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| I will be at Ti with Schroth's NY Co. of Rangers, Jaeger's Battalion. |
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Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
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Posted - June 21 2004 : 6:25:39 PM
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| Kurt! Our kitchen was right next to Schroth's last year.......maybe that will happen again! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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alikws
Colonial Settler
USA
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October 23 2003
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Posted - June 22 2004 : 10:37:34 AM
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i'll be camped next to the french this year, look for someone red & black (sometimes green) with a frog tatooed on left breast...
the battle it seems will be near the 'kings garden' section of the fort, with a scenario to match... see what happens... and there might be a double ball game as well... |
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Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
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May 19 2002
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Posted - June 22 2004 : 2:10:00 PM
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| We shall find each other! Chauncey Goodrich will also be there, so perhaps we can have our own "Gathering"...... |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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alikws
Colonial Settler
USA
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October 23 2003
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Posted - June 23 2004 : 12:23:13 PM
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chauncy was at fort#4 a couple weeks ago, seemed to be in command of a squad of rangers...
i was painted green that day in honor of those who were in an amphibious assault 60 years ago {thanks guys} and shadowing them... not too talkitive that day,though... |
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