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We'll be there--it's the closest one for us. They begin the weekend with a program this Friday (yearly) where they bus grade school kids in from the Danville Public Schools for "Civil War Days", and we give a speel at stations. Our noble leader "Bencomo" is especially pleased that it's so popular that they have to turn some schools away if they don't register on time for the Friday program.
This event started I-don't-really-know-when, but we attended it from 1986 to 1989, and then the park didn't want to do it anymore. After sputtering, it finally began again, at a different location in the park, in 2006. DH took DD to the first of these, and spoke on US Cavalry. DD (first year of college, who had taken several years of German) did a portrayal of a private whose family had recently migrated to America. She pretended to not understand much English, and the kids enjoyed that a lot. (I was unable to take the Friday off from work.)
I'm considering taking my bugle and practicing Infantry calls, to get ready for the 150th cycle which begins next year. Hoping it doesn't rain too much, but we've had a decent drought, so I don't think we'll bog down, even if it does.
Here's the Host Unit's website:
http://www.illianacivilwar.org/
Here's DH and I last year:
Here's a photo from the event back in 1987:
Horse on the left is "Toma Coma" (RIP, 2003, lived 35 years), Horse on the Right (me aboard), "Dandy Silver Moon", QH