Okay, on the Sunday before Memorial Day, I hit an impasse with one of Fort Mifflin’s event organizers. I will spare you the gory details but it was bad. I subsequently informed Fort Mifflin that I would be leaving. This was not received well and I have been fielding all sorts of pleas that I …
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Historical Tidbits — Pennsylvania Evening Post
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. May 30, 1783 – The Pennsylvania Evening Post became America’s first daily newspaper. Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775. The paper was supportive of …
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The Regimental Brewmeister is Seeking a New Billet
Well, after many years of faithfully serving Fort Mifflin, I have reached an ethical impasse over the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire. Let me be clear, this is a problem with who the Fort has chosen to rent themselves out to and not the administration of the Fort but in the end, I have sent them my …
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Historical Tidbits — Virginia Plan
When reenacting or acting as a historical interpreter, its good to have a few historical dates and stories to share. This series will publish a few. May 29, 1787 – At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Virginia Plan calling for a bicameral legislature, an executive, and a judiciary branch of government was proposed by …
The Westernmost Battle of the American Revolution — Fort San Carlos
Living near Philadelphia, I tend to have a very East Coast view of the American Revolution. After all, the BIG battles in North America were in New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and Virginia. America west of the Mississippi River was a far of land deep in New Spain for most Americans in 1777. Not …
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The SECOND Constitutional Congress Meets in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787
Four years after the United States won its independence from England, delegates convened in Philadelphia to compose a new U.S. Constitution. The current constitution, The Articles of Confederation, ratified several months before the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, provided for a loose confederation of U.S. states, which totally were sovereign in most of their …
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Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Well. They’ve done. On June 1, all those pretty bills in your wallet and all the theoretical dollars in all our bank and investment accounts will be worthless pieces of paper. Kevin McCarthy and the GOP have conspired to destroy the “faith and credit of the United States of America,“ and without the gold or …
“America First” is a Lie! We are an Empire and as the Worlds Greatest Empire We Must Protect Others.
Okay, I have been known to take an occasional rant against what I see as abuses by the Far Right and their puppets (like Donald Trump). Those who know me also know that I tend to be very “conservative” in my personal politics. So how can a “conservative leaning” person be so opposed to the …
Brewing Class at Colonial Plantation
On June 10th, the Regimental Brewmeister will be conducting an 18th Century brewing class at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation in Ridley Creek State Park in Media, PA. Cost to attend is $100/person but there is a catch. You need to be a member of Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation. Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation offers a full range of weekend …
FREE BEER — sort of
Come root for the Regimental Brewmeister as we submit our Spruce Beer to the judges. This will be the beer that we brew on the green at historic Old New Castle on May 20 so there is time to see it brewed the drink as much of it as you like in Norristown on July …
Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 