Susan, do you do any costuming? You mentioned you are more a horse
person so I wondered if you wear any particular riding garb. I have
gotten the impression that the Morris Co. historical society is a very
active group with a large membership in terms of costuming, dancing,
etc. Last year I attended a vintage fashion show and tea in Scranton
and many of the attendees and/or participants were from there. As a
matter of fact, only a week or two after was their Victorian Fest at
Acorn Hall and Fosterfeilds but it was too much travel for our car to
make another long trip so I am shooting for this year. I just became a
member of the board of directors as well as the chairperson for ways
and means at my local historical society, they are fairly active and do
try to mix it up but I hope my presence there now may influence the
programming and we can integrate more living history programming
similar to that of what groups in surrounding areas pursue. It seems
the hardest thing is making initial contact with people who share such
interests, even moreso in finding anyone willing to participate
publicly as if they are too shy to bring their costuming into the
public eye or just do not keep such hobbies at all, being that
criticism is very harsh around towards people who do something
historical. It is heartbreaking and I am sure there are critics
everywhere, in other areas though the interest seems to overcome fear
of not keeping up with the Jones' so to speak. Every year we have a
traveling civil war encampment that comes to a local state park with
battles and a camp village with tradespeople and merchants which is
great fun. They do not advertise this and even the fact that this is
going on all over the park, was unfortunate to overhear a couple of
young kids making comments to one of the encampment ladies in costume.
I recall the reference to her in her civil war garb as being "princess
leah".
How nice that you are horse person, horses are wonderful creatures. One
day it would be nice to have some land and keep one. Only small pets
are easy to keep where I live, it is an almost urban landscape, just we
have yards of a bit larger scale than those in the inner city. Do they
make costumes for horses? I made costume for my rabbit one Halloween.
Take care:)
Justine
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