As I normally promote my programs as a historical interpreter and brewer, I contacted Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia. During my discussions on how I could bring programs to the Fort, it was suggested that I spend 2020 as a scholar-in-residence. Together with Fort Mifflin, I am developing a program which I will name “Interpreter-in-Residence” which …
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As a 21st Century business executive, I needed to travel to Boston this week, so naturally as someone with a revolutionary spirit and an interest in history, I needed to visit the infamous Green Dragon Tavern as part of my visit. Yes, finding an Irish Traven in Boston is not a difficult task, and yes, …
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Thank you to all my followers. I have changed the URL. You can now find me at ColonialBrewer.com
If we tried to have a revolution today, would we succeed? Do we have what it takes? I hear boasts at reenactments all the time and everyone thinks they have what it takes to rebel but are we willing to “dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,”[1] or are we more likely …
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Most of us reenact because we love history but on a recent but on a recent trip to Oklahoma, I met a man who reenacts events of the 19th Century for a completely different and perhaps more practical. To teach his children of their heritage and to teach them COMMON SENSE. The man I met …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Michael Carver -- Historical Interpreter/Reenactor 