How about Last of the Mohicans? Epic I thought.
Wish I could’ve lived that America, even up to the 1880’s old west. Did a lot of re-enactments from French & Indian era to Rev War era to the mountain man days to the Dragoons of the Mexican War to the Civil War to the old west in my day. It was a lot of fun learning about and how to make or collect the items to be period correct be it clothing, weapons and other related ephemera of all the periods.
Then there were the mind blowing week long or better encampments where you got a taste of what it was like to be in those days. Amazing craftsmen reproducing items of the day from guns to canon to barrels to silver & copper works to tinsmithith to blacksmith to weaving to cobblers to you name it. Gunsmiths making the most beautiful and ornate flintlocks you’ve ever seen. Knife makers and hawk makers of same quality. The bead and leather works, again of outstanding quality. Hardcore fukrs who took it serious as hell to make it as authentic as it could be. Beautiful whole White families involved. It was amazing and inspiring to behold. Unfortunately it’s not as popular as it was from the sixties to 911. All us old guys are dyin’ off and with less and less youth to fill in the ranks it isn’t anything like it used to be. It’s still out there, but not the huge encampments there used be.
I agree 100%.
Those people are preserving vital skills that we will need after a collapse.
I’ve been wondering where to learn basic things like how to make and work with leather. Today we don’t realize how many critical things were made with leather back in the day. Everything from shoes to animal harnesses. Metal working and smithing is another major area.
The old war reenactment community sounds like a good place to learn those things.
There’s so much the jews and their demonized techno world have robbed us of. Simple wholesome lives that took generations to perfect have all but vanished from the American landscape and much of the world.
All those trades and crafts took took cooperation and community to have even come about. No one man can do it all on his own. The rare man can of course, but his tools came from somewhere. His knowledge came from somewhere. Clothing, footwear, pots and pans, plow, all those things that made a 17th century and before lifestyle possible.
Community and shared beliefs made all that possible. Sure hope we remember that when the time comes and it will come.
Re-enactment communities are good places to learn from others as are books. It will take lifetimes to relearn all that we have lost. Leather for instance, where you going to get it? Tanning is a whole other art. Iron for smithing or copper, silver or tin. Reclamation will be easy in some parts, but not others.
On and on it goes in a worst case scenario. We have lots to relearn and unlearn.
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