Continental Line Meeting
On January 10, 2009 the Continental Line meeting was held in Pennsylvania. Since I am now adjutant of the regiment, I went down to the meeting with our captain, Jim. We carpooled with another fellow reenactor, Bobby. The three of us drove down to PA after work on Friday, and since it was so late in the night, much silliness ensued on the drive down. Things like pictures of toll booth attendants:
Which she was not amused by. But luckily, even through all the silliness, we made it down in one piece, arriving at about 1:30 in the morning. We got stuck in some pretty nasty traffic, and watched a Big Rig drop their drive shaft right in the middle of the highway. It was quite an adventure! Here are just a few photos (the ones that weren’t too blurry anyway) from the drive down:
Saturday was the day of the big meeting, it was very interesting, seeing as it was the first time I had ever attended one. Apparently I was pretty slacking on the picture taking this day (though pictures of meetings is pretty boring) but I guess I got pictures of the most important stuff ….
Breakfast ….
Lunch ….
and dinner ….
Check out the rest of the pictures from Saturday here:
On Sunday, there was some pretty nasty weather rolling through back home, so we decided to wait it out a bit in PA and take a trip down to Valley Forge National Park before we made the drive back. We got the very special privilege of a private viewing of the George C. Neumann collection. Click here for more information on his collection. They only had about 40 people in to see the collection and we were lucky enough to get on the list. Here are a few items from the collection:
Original cartridge box with original cartridges still in it:
Wooden canteen:
Muskets:
And check out my photo album to see the rest:
After we looked at the collection, we drove around the National Park. We weren’t the only ones in the park ….
We also saw cannons …
Sleeping quarters …
And a church built on the site where Washington was said to have prayed while at Valley Forge …
After all of this, we headed on home. Luckily we missed the big storm, and by the time we were home, everything was cleared and plowed just for us. It was quite an adventure heading down to Pennsylvania, I am glad I had the opportunity to go!
