Kilted Reenactors?

[sav]

Hey y'all...I was wondering how many of you are involved in some type of historical reenactment relating to Scotland. Personally, I am a member of: 2nd Battalion, B Company Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (WWII), 1Bn B Coy Gordon Highlanders (WWI and Crimean War), and I'm just beginning to dabble in Brian C.'s (Woodsheal) "Clan Donnachaidh" (1745). Any other kilted reenactors out there?
~Sav

[macwilkin]

Hey y'all...I was wondering how many of you are involved in some type of historical reenactment relating to Scotland. Personally, I am a member of: 2nd Battalion, B Company Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (WWII), 1Bn B Coy Gordon Highlanders (WWI and Crimean War), and I'm just beginning to dabble in Brian C.'s (Woodsheal) "Clan Donnachaidh" (1745). Any other kilted reenactors out there?
~Sav

Sav:

I am a member of:

Company I, 20th Kansas Infantry (Spanish-American War)
Company C, 9th US Infantry (Spanish-American War)

You can see our unit web page here:

http://www.spanamwar.com/20thkansasCoi.html

I'm the second one from the right (of the picture).

I have also participated in Civil War living history & reenacting:

Company B, 2nd US Infantry
Battery F, 2nd US Artillery (Totten's Battery)
Company B, 4th Missouri Infantry (CS)

I have also done Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Mexican War living history events with the NPS.

I was also a member of the 15th Scottish Division, a WWII unit from North Carolina, but I was never able attend any events with them, more's the pity.

I'd like to do WWI Canadian or Scottish someday.

Cheers,

Todd

[Archangel]

Sav:

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I was also a member of the 15th Scottish Division, a WWII unit from North Carolina, but I was never able attend any events with them, more's the pity.

I'd like to do WWI Canadian or Scottish someday.

Cheers,

Todd

I saw someone posted about this group the other day. Where can I find more info about it. Part of my future retirement strategy is developing my own business focussing around and honouring the 15th or the 9th. Haven't fine tuned it yet. Actually, it's already started and you may see some products within the year.

[Woodsheal]

Reenacting and "living history" is a fantastic hobby! For me, it combines a love of military history, old-style firearms and swords, and primitive camping.

Check out my group's website below to get a feel for the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion scene ( and welcome aboard, Sav! )....

Speaking of which, a major reenactment event: "Culloden,the 260th Anniversary" is in the works for next year. Date: 19-21 May, `06; location: Fort Loudoun Historic Site, Ft. Loudoun, PA (just west of Chambersburg).

This gives folks who might be interested lots of time to gear up, and we're hoping some of our UK and west coast friends will be able to participate.

More info to come...!

[Riverkilt]

Don't belong to reenactor's group...too far away...but have, over the years, outfitted myself with full Union Cavalry gear (except tack and a horse), Confederate gear (eastern and transwestern), and that gear can be loosely modified to be sorta western cavalry.

I sometimes wear it to Festival of the West type gatherings or in local 4th of July or Veteran's day parades to honor my great great grandfathers' service.

Best of all, its fun to dress up and go about town as if it was the most normal thing in the world, or kick back outside the town's old west style restaurant.

Have thought about wearing the Union gear down to the Grand Canyon and hanging around the tourist areas and developing an in role pitch about why I need a tip in exchange for taking my picture...something about visiting Miss Lulu's to see my girlfriend Sadie tonight...etc.

Fear is I'd get busted by the park rangers for taking tips for the photos without having a consessionaire's permit from NPS....

Do enjoy the role playing for fun though. Not sure that at age 60 I want to take it to sleeping on the ground, eating hardtack, and doing close order drill again...

Ron

[macwilkin]

Don't belong to reenactor's group...too far away...but have, over the years, outfitted myself with full Union Cavalry gear (except tack and a horse), Confederate gear (eastern and transwestern), and that gear can be loosely modified to be sorta western cavalry.

I sometimes wear it to Festival of the West type gatherings or in local 4th of July or Veteran's day parades to honor my great great grandfathers' service.

Best of all, its fun to dress up and go about town as if it was the most normal thing in the world, or kick back outside the town's old west style restaurant.

Have thought about wearing the Union gear down to the Grand Canyon and hanging around the tourist areas and developing an in role pitch about why I need a tip in exchange for taking my picture...something about visiting Miss Lulu's to see my girlfriend Sadie tonight...etc.

Fear is I'd get busted by the park rangers for taking tips for the photos without having a consessionaire's permit from NPS....

Do enjoy the role playing for fun though. Not sure that at age 60 I want to take it to sleeping on the ground, eating hardtack, and doing close order drill again...

Ron

Yeah, Ron, I can say without a doubt the NPS folks would not like someone charging tourists for photos who isn't "official", although living historians do not usually charge anything for photos in general. ;) Some parks like Bent's Old Fort in Colorado do charge a "living history/interpretation fee" (usually $1-2 dollars) which help in the upkeep of uniforms, etc., since the NPS has the "incredibly shrinking budget". ;)

BUT, Ft. Defiance and Ft. Verde aren't too far away from you if you wanted to do some living history programs with your Federal Cavalry impression! :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

[Riverkilt]

Thanks, hadn't thought of Ft. Defiance. Both are about four hours away, different directions.

Ron

[gmcdavid]

Hey y'all...I was wondering how many of you are involved in some type of historical reenactment relating to Scotland.

I belong to Clann Tartan, a reenactment group based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Our focus is early 17th century Scotland. At that time King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden hired a lot of Scottish mercenaries to fight on the Protestant side in the 30 Years War. So we generally portray a Swedish recruiting camp in the Scottish highlands (The Swedish connection plays well in and around Minnesota). We also occasionally do other 30 Years War/ECW events.

We have a web site at http://www.clanntartan.org, which, alas, has not been kept current. I have complained about this....guess who now has the job of updating it.

Glenn

[sav]

A few folks have asked for the link to my Argyll and Sutherland reenactment unit, so here it is:

http://home.rochester.rr.com/argylls...and/index.html

~Sav

[james a. husky]

42nd Regiment of Foot, Lt. Col's Company - War of the American Rebellion

42nd Regiment of Foot, Lt. Col's Company - Seven Years War in North America

Oglethorpe's Independent Highland Company, Colony of Georgia - and, as James Dean would say: "What have you got?"

Jim aka Kiltiemon