reenacting question

[winterbadger]

So, if I'm going to be in one place for a while, which it appears I am, I aim to get back to some of the things I was putting off until I was settled.

One of those is reenacting. While I've tried other periods and found their charms, Rev War is still my favourite. My old group, sadly, is gone. john_arundel and gr_c17 have found a new, very similar home; but, despite it having people in it that I'm fond of, I have a feeling that I wouldn't get on with some of the other members they've told me about.

So I'm casting around for a new group to join, and I'm open to suggestions.

• British (including regular or Loyalist), please.


• I spent a decade in a group that was broad-tent, family-friendly, "let's get the basics right, but we're not asking anyone to live rough". I'd be OK with that, but I'd also be open to a more "progressive", authenticity-oriented group.


• I'd prefer it to be a welcoming group (as discussed by Kelsey Freeman at Historically Speaking), just because that's the sort of atmosphere I'm more comfortable with.


• One that's social both at events and away from them--and by "social" I mean more than just "gets hammered every Friday and Saturday night".


• And preferably one that doesn't do a tremendously "exceptional" impression. By which I mean that I think there are plenty of groups doing light infantry or riflemen or grenadiers or fusiliers or Highlanders or rangers or left-handed Roman Catholic Swabian jaegers. There aren't enough bog-standard hat companies (regular or Provincial).


• Oh, and, of course, it would be good if their level of activity doesn't put me in for a stroke first time out. I'm working to get fit, but if you need to be triathlon-fit to play, I'll be the guy everyone in the section is waiting for to catch up.

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I met a great Roman group recently. Really knew their historical stuff. Had a surgeon and a midwife as well as foot soldiers.

[winterbadger]

I'm glad you had that enjoyable experience, but I was really looking for suggestions for (a) 18th century (specifically American Revolution) groups and (b) ones near me (mid-Atlantic US states).

[gr-c17.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest the MD Loyalist, but I'm not sure I've seen them out lately. 84th is good, trousers and bonnet, the Muskets like to play with them, as opposed to the Generals company.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, I'm going to ask about MD Loyalists on RevList, because their website is all but dead. 84th... I just don't want to do another Highland unit. It would feel like cheating on the 1st Maj's Coy. :-)