Preface:

Just last week, I created a set of web pages to document my evolving interest in Victorian era photography. I've been dancing on the fringes of the Civil War reenacting community for a couple of years and have just recently decided to take a more active role. Inasmuch as this 'effort' is transformational (and slow paced) it dawned on me that a blog was an ideal vehicle for logging activity (dare we say 'progress'?) on this sort of thing. I've got a lot of plans for the future, but I will take some time at first to write about the important (and hopefully interesting) steps I've taken up to this point.

About...me:

My interest in reenacting stems from an interest in acting that goes back many years: in junior high school I played a member of the River City band in a professional production of "The Music Man" starring Bert Parks, I'm a big fan of Halloween costuming, and living as I do along the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, I became interested in the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848).

In 2008, I joined the 1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry because some of the members occasionally effect a U.S.-Mexican War impression. After attending a couple of Civil War events, I decided to participate in that era as an itinerant photographer.