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15th Century
Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485)
Men of Warwick
Pictures from Military through the Ages (MTA), 1998
Jamestown, Virginia
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It is rare to get everyone suited up and gathered in one place, so pictures
seemed appropriate.
       
It seems that the thing that we do most the time is sit around the camp
fire. Socializing, eating, drinking, talking, working on gear, and
even discussing history are a few of the things that we do while
idling the time away.
 
One of the best (or worst, depending on who you ask) things about reenacting
is teaching the public about history. We try to keep someone
on "guard" duty at the entry to our camp, in order to answer people's questions
and invite them into our camp. For some reason, the public seems
to think we bite! After the tourney demo, the fighters also
answered questions from the public.
 
MTA is a judged event and one of the categories judged is a live demo
for the public. For this year, we had a team tourney between two
different sides of our group. The judges, unfortunately, didn't like
the fact that the soldiers were swinging their swords a bit too enthusiastically,
but everyone had a lot of fun.
                       
Lucky for John he had a suit of plate on, because these children were
vicious!
 
One of the best things about MTA is that it is a multi-century event
with all sorts of neat reenactment camps. I happened to really like
the WW2 groups, so that is what most of the other pictures are of.
Try to find the rats in some of the pictures. There are also pirates, Landsknechts,
Germans, Americans, Brits, and even some Donut Dollies.
          
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