Confessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War Reenactor

＂Confessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War Reenactor＂ is the story of Darin Richardson’s first ten years as a Civil War reenactor in the most unlikeliest of places: Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This book chronicles his beginnings as a reenactor up to the time he quit the hobby, then his return to it in recent years. This book has it all: Escaped mental patients; ＂The Edwin Incident;＂ ＂K-Mart Confederates;＂ drunken escapades; ＂Weasel and the Hicks,＂ two ＂social diseases＂; skinny-dipping at reenactments; the ＂Rebel Rap;＂ firearm blunders; interesting uses for coffee; an encounter with Bigfoot; nightmare trips to California reenactments; sexual encounters; belly dancers; a guy named Dub; ＂hunaha, hu;＂ being misquoted in newspapers; a trip of a lifetime to Tennessee and Georgia; The Ten Constants of Reenacting; outrageous questions asked by spectators, and views on ＂hardcore＂ reenactors and women who portray soldiers.