My Hobbies

LIVING HISTORY/REENACTMENT:

I believe that Living History and Reenactment are very
important tools with which to learn/teach.  History, in general,
can be very dry and uninteresting, even though we must learn
from it.  As the old adage goes,

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

There is a significant difference between
"Living History" and "Reenactment".


LIVING HISTORY:



 

Living History is...
the portrayal of a particular time period as accurately
as possible without using real, historically documented
events or persons.
              Such as...
portraying life in Europe during the Middle Ages.
              Such as...
life in the American colonies.
Living History is...
a fictitious specific event or series of events.
              Such as...
a day in the life of a buffalo hunter or
a day in the life of a medieval German peasant.
              Such as...
a week during the French and Indian War, or
a week during the First Crusades.
Living History is...
the portrayal of a fictitious personage set in
a historically accurate setting.
              Such as...
the Court of a fictitious medieval King or
the encampment of a Revolutionary war army.

REENACTMENT:


Reenactment is...
the protrayal of a particular event or series
of events, or a personor persons, which really,
truly did happen or exist.
Reenactment is...
the acting out of a real event such as 
the Battle of Gettysburg, or 
the coronation of England's King Henry Vlll.
Reenactment is...
the acting out of a real series of events such as
the American Civil War, or 
the Rennaissance era in England.
Reenactment is...
the protrayal of a real person or persons such as
France's Louis Xlll, or Napoleon Bonaparte's legions.

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