Listeros:

As a Rev War re-enactor (HM 64th [Staffordshire] Regiment of Foot, Major's
Company), 1975-81, I participated in a number of events--official
Bicentennial--Washington's Crossing/Trenton-Princeton; Monmouth;
Brandywine; and ultimately the Yorktown Surrender--as well as other local
events (e.g., Sully Plantation near Dulles Airport [it was very strange to
be sitting in front of an A-tent wearing knee britches and a waist-coat
and watch the Concorde fly overhead on its first flight to DC]) and a
couple of movies.

For none of those events was I paid real hard cash. At best, I could
expect some food, cooked or uncooked (even Indian pow-wow sponsors provide
"rations") and a pound or so of black-powder.

The point is, as someone else put it, "re-enactors" are not "actors"; we
do it for the experience, and if we can get fed and maybe reimbursed for
the powder, we'll come back next year. Good will is a good thing in
re-enacting.

Thomas Kavanagh, Ph.D.
Bloomington, IN

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