1745 Rebellion reenacting

[Woodsheal]

If you've ever considered getting involved with the `45 period for reenactment and "living history", now is a good time! 19-21 May of `06 will see a major reenactment event, the 260th Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden. The event site is at Fort Loudoun Historic Site, Ft. Loudoun, PA (about 35 miles west of Gettysburg). A detailed blurb is in the Celtic Events section of this Forum....

Anyways, this gives one plenty of time to "gear up" for this event, in terms of period garb and weaponry. Click on the link in my signature below, to get an idea of what a 1740's clan group is like. Nearly all of the major Jacobite clans are represented by various reenactment groups, mostly east of the Mississippi and in Ontario: Cameron, MacGregor, Appin Stewart, MacLachlan, MacIntosh, Farquharson, Clan Chattan, MacLaren, Robertson, Fraser, MacDonalds of Clanranald, Glengarry, and Keppoch, etc. On the Hanoverian side are, of course, the Campbells and their fearsome Argyll Militia!

For you reenactors of other periods, the `45 is a fun and exciting new era to get involved in! For you history buffs who have have never yet tried the Living History hobby, it is a bug that once it bites you, hooks you forever.

My Redcoat friends tell me that seeing that tartan-clad horde rushing madly at them, broadswords waving, is an awesome sight not to be forgotten! You can be a part of it....

[macgreggor]

Woodsheal,

Is there a website I could bookmark? I went to a Nugent concert this summer with my wife and she owes me BIG! Perhaps if I start hinting now.....

macG

[Woodsheal]

There is no event website yet, per se. There is this "headquarters" for 1745 re-enactment:

http://www.kezarcelts.net/jacobite/nsindex.html

Therein you will find event info, unit links,and a discussion Forum.

The event location website is:

www.fortloudoun-pa.com/

You should also be aware that there is a MacGregor group based in Illinois...!

[sav]

Brian,
I've already started building my impression for this event, as we discussed before...I'm looking forward to being on the field with Clan Donnachaidh!

[Woodsheal]

Brian,
I've already started building my impression for this event, as we discussed before...I'm looking forward to being on the field with Clan Donnachaidh!

Excellent! It'll be great to have a unit piper again. My previous one moved away to the deep South...!