Old Fort "Re-enactors"

Oh, to be an actor. Or re-enactor in this case. You learn a lot from re-enactors as they flaunt their period dress, behave as history interprets one behaved back in 1812, without all the conveniences of modern life. I admire their courage for attempting to be as it was, for an entire holiday weekend. Among the re-enactors we saw:

1. A muscian playing his period-appropriate Fender acoustic guitar.
2. A British gunner explaining how to re-charge the gunpowder. By the way, my daughter Caitlyn was smitten with this young lad, yet too embarassed to be scene by the lens with with him.
3. A woodworker manually shaving down the seat of a new chair.
4. A woman, whose husband is too cheap to build her a house with a kitchen in which to cook his venison vittles.
5. My hometown buddy, Mark Newman (Schnoo), in green shirt re-enacting how to get his baby the hell out of the way as some 1812 homies stroll down the street flashing their pieces.
6. Schnoo, son Zack and the baby re-enacting how tourists have caught some shade at Old Fort Niagara since 1900.
7. My son Matt re-enacting how to fit in with the crowd of 1812 in sunglasses after riding his flux capacitor Back from the Future.
8. Our crew re-enacting how in 1812 they must have eaten hot dogs and "British fries" (French fries were invented after the French kicked the British out of Fort Niagara).
9. Matt re-enacting how to barter smelly animal pelts for making Christmas presents for the women folk.
10. Schnoo's baby daughter re-enacting how babies of 1812 ate pulverized green beans from a plastic rip-top container.