They are of GREAT value to you.
And they are old to me.
I guess I’m a newcomer :)
The musket must be awesome. I hope you can get it restored and join the New Years Eve festivities some day soon.
The best-known and most organized one is southwest of me but northwest of Charlotte, in Cherryville. They even have a lengthy Old English sounding chant they recite from home to home before firing their muskets, that’s reputed to be over 250 years old. Mummers in Philadelphia derive from the same European tradition but they dropped their firing guns and cannon long ago. The NC iteration is a combination of things that came here courtesy of the ever-present Scotch-Irish anywhere near the Appalachians, as well as Germans, Swiss, English and French.