Beck’s having another event??
Geez.
.........and if the same thing happens next year?
I don’t get it. Who cares about Glen Beck?
5% chance this is actually about Glenn Beck, 95% chance this guy has a much bigger and more complicated event on his hands than he anticipated and a much smaller support structure and budget available to him and the size of the Glenn Beck event gave him an out.
It takes a lot more than passion to pull off a big outdoor festival-type event, and when you have to add the complications of firearms , horses, and a participant population with experience in successful events second guessing you along the way but not offering assistance, it has to be a relief to have someone else to blame for it falling through ahead of time.
I sponsored a Cheeto art contest but had to cancel to protect the artwork when I found out Beck had booked the same venue that weekend.
Right, that Glenn Beck guy is reeeal scary. He and his homies might come after you if you piss him off. /s
These are all dying because Confederate reenactors are now designated as Hate Groups.
I remember Glenn Beck.
Who the heck is Glenn Beck?
Glenn Beck affected my listening habits while driving. He dominated conservative talk radio during the morning drive time, and since I was unable to stand any longer his Never-Trump rants, I started listening to books on CD. That Trump-hater is now all but gone from our local airwaves, but I still listen to books on CD.
Glenn Beck is he still on air?
cop out. cancelling over some clown like beck? and beck is an _ss to pick a time to pull some stunt and disrupt the usual timing of the annual reenactment.
went to gettysburg as a child and though i didn’t understand much it left an impression on me - made me thankful to know people of the past fought for me to have freedoms and all else that makes our country unique.
it appears the reenactment is relocating to richmond va this year...
I was chatting with a reenactor at a Roundtable meeting last week. He says a lot of reenactments are getting cancelled. They draw protests, which scares local politicians and the small town business community which are usually the good partners of the organizers. There have been pepper spray incidents, and two crude pipe bombs were found at a reenactment last year. This is just more of the Antifa types attempting to sterilize the public square and eradicate all history that isn’t Zinn-based. I don’t think that putting our heads down and hoping it will pass is a winning strategy. We’re going to have to fight these people sooner or later (non-violently, I hope, but …).
Surely all 27 folks that are going to Beck’s little party would not impact local resources THAT much.
This weekend I attended the re-enactment in Brooksville, FL. Not a Marxist in sight. US flags from every era stood in the breeze.
The Bride and I spoke with dozens of fellow re-enactors, and came up with one consensus: a major factor in the decline of the reenactments of all eras is that the reenactor population is ageing, and our numbers aren’t being replaced. Generation Snowflake couldn’t care much less about American History, or any history for that matter.
The population of the spectators are also ageing. I was hard pressed to find anyone under thirty, twenty-five at best. The teen contingent there were primarily Boy and Girl Scouts who were part of the event staff.
But despite all that, the event was heart-warming with the displays of patriotism, love of country, and faithful dedication to historical accuracy.