Monday, September 1, 2025

The First of September Post


It's a re-enactor thing. For twenty plus years I was a member of the 1st New Jersey Regiment (The Jersey Blues) of the Continental Line. There is a running joke about this fife and drum song being played every September 1st in this house. Couldn't pass it by without posting this. 

A tip of the cocked hat (and shako, too) to my good friend, fellow wargamer, and fellow retired re-enactor, Mark N. of My Brave Fusiliers blog, that I also support. 

Mark served for many, many years at Minuteman National Park as a ranger in the NPS. He has a wealth of information about the AWI period and is also an all-around great guy. Do please give his blog a visit. I have it linked to mine. 

And now, back to reading about Columbus and Da Gama for graduate classes. 


1 comment:

  1. Great fife and drum tune! Was the 1st NJ the group Tom V. Commanded? I knew Tim and his brother Mark from the days they were in the 43rd/2nd PA.
    Thank you for the very kind comments. I greatly appreciate it.

    I was thinking about doing a posting about my reenactment days. I don’t have a lot of pictures left due our house disaster but I gave posted a couple people sent me. It might be amusing hearing about why this American chose to be in a British unit. Especially the time when I was in Great Britain and was invited to attend the regiment’s officer mess.

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