Civil War Weekend

October 15th, 2008

The Battle of Blue Springs: a battle fought during the Civil War, and one that’s reenacted every year in October. There’s an education day for school kids, a ball…

Hold it! Did you say a ball? I’m in! :-)

The Civil War ball is what first caught our attention (some of our readers remember the reenactment we attended in VA, and on another occasion a Vintage Ball). But the ball is open only to reenactors. We had to fix that somehow…

Our homeschool leader, a long time Civil War reenactor, gave us and the rest of the group a crash course on what everyone needs to know about reenacting. After a few weeks preparation, everything was officially set – we would be reenactors (along with fellow our homeschoolers), and we were going to the ball!

We invited our friend Emily to join us for the occasion, which added greatly to our enjoyment those few days. We talked and played games in between meals and driving to Blue Springs, and even watched a bit of Spiderman3 at an indecent hour of night. :-) Ah, what fun we had together!

So here is a batch of pictures from the first day of the reenactment, “Education Day.”

Saturday morning found us girls bustling about all the bedrooms in the house; “Have you seen my snood?” “No, I thought you put it on the windowsill. Where’d you put my hat?” “It’s in the closet. Em, can you tie my bow please?” “Sure. Kase, is my skirt covering the hoop?” “Oh, there’s my snood!” “Careful not to trip over my dress please…”

:-D

Over in the boys’ quarters, Walter couldn’t decide if it was better to wear a cravat or not, and Nate declared that he looked like a monkey in his costume! But it is my opinion that, in the end, we all looked super. Don’t you agree?

My favorite part of the entire weekend was the ball. During the reenactment we walked all about the sutlery isle and both camps, and got our pictures taken more times than I can count. But nothing compares to the vigor and excitement that took place Saturday evening at the ball!

And can you guess who we saw there, amidst all the Union and Confederate soldiers and Southern Belles? Captain Jack Sparrow, from Pirates of the Carribean! No, ’twas not Johnny Depp, but there was a man there who was just like Jack in his dress, voice, and mannerisms.

Complete and absolute randomness, right? But I have to admit, Jack Sparrow added more fun to everything we did and danced, and was the life of the party!

I know, we should have taken more pictures. But see, that’s how much fun we were having! We were so busy dancing, talking and laughing we didn’t have time to think about our camera.

At any rate, it certainly was a weekend to remember. It was wonderful having Emily over; reenacting for the first time was a neat experience, and I loved the ball!

-Kasie

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  • Esther

    October 16, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    HAHA That Jack Sparrow! I love it! lol thats great! Any who well if Nate says he looks like a monkey in his suit…then by all means he does! Good for you Nate! lol Not to mention you look like an OLD monkey! You nearly look like Walter now sept a Smidge shorter and much rounder! Im kidding you look quite dashing though! Everyone does! However you wouldnt catch me dead in a dress like that. No offence but i dont think i could handle all that! haha But it sure looks fun specialy with mr sparrow lol

  • Emily

    October 16, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    I had so much fun…those pics of me at the ball are awfful! OH well…Jack is cool. I can’t wait until next year!

  • Esther

    October 16, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Nonsense Emily you look just fine! As pretty as the rest of them! Much better then Kasies LOL unprepared shot! lol that was to funny! lol Kasie you sure know how to make a fool of yourself! Always have! lol No ok sorry i had to tease i love you Kas forgive my rudeness haha!

  • Sherry

    October 17, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    Yay Kasie! You got them downloaded. What great pictures and wonderful memories. Hope you are having a blast in VA. We will miss you guys at Disciple’s Point on Sunday, but hopefully we’ll see those sweet smiles on Wednesday at our house! Praying the Lord greatly blesses your weekend with family!!! Love U ~

  • Kasie

    October 17, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Gee Em, you look fine to me!

    @Esther
    Uh! How could you insult me so? *flip of hand* I’m offended. Nah, you know I’m not, and I know you like to tease. After all, I do too, right? :-D

    @Sherry
    Glad you liked the pictures! You should see some of the shots Valerie took during the battle reenactment sometime too. I’m going to miss you guys on Sunday too, but we’ll definitely be there on Wednesday. God bless!

  • Emily

    October 19, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    ha, thanks for the comment, Esther!

    Seriously, though, it was a ton of fun! We were up late talking about it afterwards….and watching spiderman3 .

  • Esther

    October 19, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    yup no problem hehe

  • Mr. Darcy

    October 19, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Looking great. That blasted flash washes peoples’ faces out is all, looks like it was pretty dim lighting in there, at least in the pictures. Still looking great of course, but I do hold that people always look prettier in person. Captain Jack looks lovely, quite the outfit, I would have liked to have heard his impersonation to see whether it rivals Kc’s.

  • Sarah

    October 19, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    Well, we took a poll and we all agreed that you guys looked fantastic! Way to go on that sewing machine! The dresses turned out beautiful.

    We love to do the reenactments, although “The Father” limits them to once a year – (despite much pleading). (um…this next question is for the girls ha ha) So how did you like the hoops? Did you have the awkward “sitting in a chair experience” that I had? The girls had done a couple of reenactments before I got into dressing up, so they enjoyed watching me “get used to” the hoops. They kindly gave me tips eventually :)

    After watching the Patriot tonight, that foot was all too realistic! We loved Jack. So, Kasie does a “Jack”? Grace enjoys “doing Jack” too, although sometimes when she is explaining something, we all can seeing her actually lapsing into Jack – that’s pretty scary. Maybe in JULY!!! (when we meet the other Jack) we can compare “Jacks”! This is getting confusing.

    Great, fun pictures!

    Mrs Discher

  • Kasie

    October 20, 2008 at 9:11 am

    @Mr. Darcy
    Unfortunately the pictures you see here were the best ones I could find of the ball. Pretty sad, huh? But like I said, we were having so much fun, I almost forgot about taking pictures! We were outside in a pavillion, which is why the lighting appears dim. As much as I don’t like the “flash look” I am thankful for it; without it you wouldn’t be able to see anything! So just use a little imagination… :-)

    @Mrs. Discher
    Oh yes, we had fun with our hoops. Thankfully I had already been given advice on how to sit and move in them from some friends at the Vintage Ball, so I didn’t have any embarrassing moments when trying to sit on a chair :-) . Although I did trip over my skirt a few times during the reenactment! Those hoops are great fun indeed!

  • Esther

    October 20, 2008 at 10:43 am

    I agree Darcy i would have liked to be there partying with Jack Sparrow myself lol Fine stuff good times! lol


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