Author Archives: Michael Carver

Many have asked for my beer recipes. As a Colonial Brewer, I don’t really USE recipes but I do design my beers in the 21st Century manner then attempt to replicate them at 18th Century re-enactment. Each week for the balance of the year, I will publish one of these designs. They work great when …

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Tyranny:  cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.” …

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Re-Enactment at Moland House Saturday, August 17th from 10:00-4:00 1641 Old York Rd, Warminster, PA 18974 Celebrate Washington’s August 1777 encampment as the army moves south to Philadeplphia. The Moland House credibly claims to be the site where the Marquis de Lafayette first assumed his duties as a Major General, and Washington met Count Casimir …

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I’ll admit, when I get going, I can tell a tale but it is certainly never “off the cuff.” It takes hours of preparation. While I don’t follow my script exactly (I was never good at rote memorization), I often write a script for each talk I give before an audience. Attached is my script …

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On July 6, members of the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment took over the Powel House on South Third Street in Philadelphia.  While we did this as part of the July 4th, the actual occupation would have begun shortly after June 18 as the British, under Gen Henry Clinton, evacuated Philadelphia after spending the winter of 1777 …

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