Ten years ago this week, I bought my second domain name, MaineMilitia.com, and this site was born. It has certainly changed a lot over that time. But somethings have always been the same. MaineMilitia.com has always been a way for me to combine several of my passions together into one hobby. My love of Maine and it's grand history, all the great experiences I've had in the hobby of Civil War reenacting, and communication in all it's modern and technological forms.

I'm curious how strong my network is? If you don't mind, would you please send an email to your friends, post to your Facebook or MySpace page, retweet on Twitter or to other social networks that...

The Battle at Fort Knox will be held on July 23-25, 2010 in Prospect, ME.

http://ftknox.mainemilitia.com/

I bet Miss Rose that I could get a 1000 more visitors to the website this month than last month. You don't want me to lose do you?

How strong is your network of friends? Will they share the link to the Battle at Fort Knox website for you?

But not of money!

I need your outstanding photos!

I need any video you've shot at events, especially Fort Knox!

I need your help!

I'm working on making some promotional pieces for a soon to be announced website in connection with an event you may or may not be familiar with. So, if you have some great photos of Civil War living history or just of a visit to Fort Knox and you don't mind allowing me to re-publish, re-purpose or alter for 'the cause' then please let me know.

If you are a graphic artist, or videographer, either amatuer or professional and would like to offer your talents on supporting 'the cause', I'd love to hear from you too!

I spend a great deal of time in my car everyday and rarely find anything on the radio worth listening to. So I listen to a great many podcasts and audio books. Being as cheap as I am these days, I only listen to free audio books. I'm currently listening to "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, as read by John Greenman and published at LibriVox.org.

With the impending storm for tonight and tomorrow, I am thinking I might find myself at home. I may take this opportunity to move this website to a new hosting company. Although I'm happy with my current host, I'm not taking full advantage of them and am paying more than necessary. So it is time to move to a less expensive host.

I know most of the reenacting units have websites and are non-profit organizations so I thought I would share this news for those who might need it. DreamHost is offering free web hosting to non-profit, charitable organizations registered in the United States.

Google and LIFE have teamed up to offer an easy way to search and view millions of photographs from LIFE's great archive.

Check it out at: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

I know I will spend many hours tonight exploring the photos. Any particular famous photo from LIFE you like? How about any from this search result? http://images.google.com/images?q=Maine+source:life

Have fun!

I've been exploring the world of free audio books this summer. You can read a few of my experiences here. Anyway, I discovered The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 at Librivox.

According to The Independant, British soldiers serving in the Helmand believe they have recovered rifles lost in the Battle of Maiwand.