My cousin and his wife have been in many Civil War re-enactments over the years, in both Southern and Northern states, including here in Maine. They live in Massachusetts (and voted for Trump).
Like you said, these re-enactments pump huge amounts of tourism money into the local economy. Thousands of participants come into the area, and countless more local people who come from far and wide to watch and observe the re-enactors, and spend money on restaurants, motels, goods of all kinds, etc.
A big mistake cancelling this event at Bull Run / Manassas. One should never cave in to the left.
When I was in college in Los Angeles MANY years ago, I admired a ten volume set of books in the college library. The ten half-leather volumes were published in Atlanta in 1899 by the Confederate Publishing Company. The title: “Confederate Military History.”
Is the left going to start demanding that historical books, flags, and artifacts from the South be burned? What about all the original Confederate currency in the hands of collectors?
This insanity has to stop.
Thanks for your post. I assumed local dollars would disappear with all these cancellations. It’s a sick world out there and getting sicker!!!