Well, I thought I'd try something a little new for us. Look into your crystal ball and speak of the wonderments you see for MaineMilitia.com, for reenacting in Maine, and for our hobby in general if you like!
2005 was an interesting year around here. The highlights I would list as the Bowdoin event back in May. Jason Porter did a great job putting it together and pulling it off. Oh I know there were many others who pitched in and helped.
In July, I switched the forums over. The transition did not take long and had a few speedbumps. From a management end, I'm very happy with what I can do with the posts. Promoting them to the front page and giving some greater exposure. From a user stand point, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles but everyone seems to have adjusted.
The registered user count is at 50. And growing! Some days are quiet and other days I can't keep up with the chatter. But now on to my predictions!
In 2006...
The registered user base of MaineMilitia.com will increase to 75. Not a huge increase. But it is not about the quantity, it's about the quality! Many of the users who join will be regular, active contributors, and add a great deal to the many facets of the website and the community as a whole.
The webmaster will experiment with an online calendar for MaineMilitia.com with mixed sucess but great encouragement from others to continue.
Reenacting in Maine in 2006 will be much the same. Many discussions continue in regards to improving the impressions and increasing recruiting. With mixed results. The biggest moment is the Third Maine muster in June. When every reenacting unit in the state reports new recruits from their participation, both blue and gray.
Seamus and Rod return to construction of the ironclad. There is much rejoicing amongst the masses. Until an actual launch date is announced and some discover that it has not been all a 'fun tale' but truth! Insurance rates go up all along the coast! Fear strikes as the ship starts it's odd journey down the river from Farmington. Fighting every sandbar and shallow along the way.
So, what's your predictions?
Subscribe to Recent Stories
Bull run, dating services, and the occasional historical comment
I too am looking forward to 2006... here are my predictions mike...
1) We, the glorious Army of the Potomac under our fearless and blessed commander McDowell will sadly meet defeat (in good order) at the battle of Bull Run... again...
2) The Re-Enacting community will find itself in deep, educated, neurologically stimulating conversations such as dating and favorite movie quotes...
3) people will see us on tv and laugh... then suddenly want to join... if we march in it, they will come...
4) peace will be found between any of the units in Maine, north south, GA, AL, ME, HI (thats Hawaii for those abreviated inpaired) and yes i think there will be the 1st HI short pant infantry... only lads with stong legs need apply... But remember one and all this is a hobby, for some more serious then others but we are here to honor our forefathers and mothers for that matter, who served so bravely in the war between the states, not to bicker and fight with ourselves...
May god bless and keep you all this christmas season, and remember this is fun, we should be able to gossip and historically discuss and at the end of the day know, we are all still friends...
According to my crystal ball...
1)Rod will whittle off an amazing amount of weight, becoming the "Richard Simmons" of re-enacting by creating his program "Drilling for Dummies, Weightloss Without Corsetting"
2)Seamus, not to be outdone, will open a civil war dance studio paving the way for the nation's first ever Civil War Drum Line.
3)Captain Cotton will be busier than ever trying to convince me that we really do need a bigger gun and horses to pull it and a barn to house them and.....
4)CopperHeadAnnie will work out a whole new set of signals with Major Reeder that will have a strange connection to weather predicting.
5)Men of Maine will tremble when the Nancy Harts make their debut in t-shirts reading "Hells coming and she's wearing a hoopskirt".
6)Offadeadyankee.com will be up and running but there won't be much there to see.
7)My crystal ball will be taken away for repairs and get lost in the shop.
and my final prediction...
8)We'll all spend a great deal of time and money on this strange thing we insist on calling a hobby and we'll have one heck of a time doing it.
~Miss Patti
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss
Ahhh - let me see...
Could the first Maine Milita match turn into bigger events for 2006/7? Stay tuned for the play by play or is that the post by post??
Miss Patti will break a hat pin while trying to maintain good and proper manners in her boys.
Seamus will release his long awaited debut album "Guiness Galore" a collection of Irish pub ditty's.
Hmmm... the crystal is getting cloudy now....
Cpl Marc Averill
29thGA
I want to look too...
Ok.. it seems to be clearing up lets see ummm...
it seems like I have something in my..... ohh just miss patti keeping me in line. "Thats going to hurt"
whats this... miss Patti hitting something with a fring pan... ok just Will.
Crap!! went black
Pvt.J.Thurlow
I predict...
...that I'll have the happiest year EVER!
I also look to do some French and Indian stuff. It's the 250th for that.
At Fort McClary.. they are looking to do an archaeological dig sometime in the summer. as well as a couple Living History things.
There's also New Market, Roscoe Village, Manassas, and Cedar Creek.
All of these wonderful things will be in the company of my friends and a certain spectacular lady.
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
I predict
that I am at the begining of the happiest journey of this life time. Looking forward to all the upcoming events and being on the arm "of the love of life" boy what a wonderful feeling. I predict that with the help of all my friends at MaineMilita and my wonderful gentleman that I am going to bring CopperHeadAnnie's to many events. I predict that every one here will become the best reenactors the state of Maine has ever seen. I predict that Mrs Patti will never have to find a cobra for the Majors mail box but she will wear out a few hat pins keeping the 29th GA boys in line. I predict that the Maine Militia board will market Moose Nuggets at reenactments thru out the United States and reenactors will be carring a dehydrated Moose Nuggets in their haversacks. I predict that Will finds his sense of humor in the bottom of his Christmas stocking, Mark has a period wedding at Fort Knox, Jason becomes a drill instructor in an upcoming movie, Zac joins a monistary in Tibet. That Mike and Seamus start a travelling minstral show featuring the Maine black snake oil cure for what ails one for eating to many Moose Nuggets. I predict that MGM studios contacts the memebers of Maine Miltia to star in a movie with Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford, and Mel Gibson ok to much egg nog has gotten to me................Wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves CopperHeadAnnie
and that movie will be
and that movie will be titled "the last full pint" the story of three friends working on Wall street until the firm they work for goes bust, they all move to maine to open a small wealth management firm on the mid-coast, wondering what locals do for fun, they try skiing and then flyfishing but with halarious results, then while touring a large granite fork er fort in Prospect they stumble upon a cavalcade of characters, dressed in the uniforms of the north and south, it looks like a good time to be had by all and they all sign up but alas the friendship begins to crumble as Costner and ford join the union and Mel joins the south dragging his goth teenage son with him for a truly bonding experiance....Watch as the kids Black dyed hair is shaved in the middle of the night at the school of the soldier At Camp Pratt and babtised in the cold May waters of Temple stream...watch as the wives wonder what is wrong with their husbands, as only one chooses to wear the hoop at first but slowly all are pulled into the haliarity. Filming will be on location at Ft knox, Augusta, Farmington, Portland and Old Orchard beach....
it will premier on Thanksgiving weekend in Waldoboro and the after premiere Party will be catered by Moodys Diner, Attended by Celebs from all walks of hollywood, Seamus will get really Drunk and skull punch Jake Gyllenhall, Jim Carey, Brad Pitt and George Clooney who will begin Crying and attempt to throw himself off the ice sculpture, thus ending his miserable life, because I broke his nose..
seeing what a Real (drunk) Man can do both Renee Zellweger and Nicole kidman will smuggle me away before Waldoboros Finest get there to arrest me, I will Write a book about my Life and Jude Law will Play Me in the movie version........
NOW WHOS HAD TOO MUCH EGGNOG????
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
One question Copperhead
One question Copperhead Anne...what is a monastery? And where is Tibet? lol JK. I would love to go to Tibet. I wonder if the'd have a 15th Alabama there. Perhaps company E?
My predictions are this...
I will win the Power Ball and will form a Confederate division of 5,000 all equipped and give each enlisted man and officer monthly pay. I will form a battalion of twelve companies of Whitsworth and "Swamp Angel" cannon (four to a battery) and a brigade of cavalry fitted with the best horses and horse artillery. But I will run out of money before I can buy land to drill them all. I predict that Wal Mart will allow me free space to drill in their parking lot.
I predict that I will awake one day, and notice Rod and Mike's CSS Maine iron clad churning up the Kennebec River and with their Confederate Marines storm the beaches of River View (AMHI) hospital.
I predict that Copper Head Anne will be the chair person of the secession Convention in Puerto Rico after it becomes the 51st state. And if this doesn't work out she will join a monistary in Kathmandu.
I predict that Major Reeder will learn to wig wag to the members of the MMB in place of posting.
I predict that Mike's MMB will have 1,000,000 members following the release of the MGM movie, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the 29th Georgia staring Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford, and Mel Gibson.
I predict that Will and his boys will invade Canada and form the Confederate Providence's of Canada.
But the clearest of my predictions is that you all will have a blessed and happy New Year and that every company will act as a member of a proud Maine family. I also predict that 2006 will be the finest year in reenacting in this state.
spelling
Zac I just can not spell I can sew I can cook I can make bobbin lace I can quilt I can bake I can ride a horse I can drive a horse I can plow the fields I can shoot a Yankee at dead point range when I am on a horse back But I can not spell CopperHead Annie
Um ...Zac...
... I gotta tell ya CopperheadAnnie joinin' a monistary ain't gonna happen!
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
Mike Johnson, after being
Mike Johnson, after being investigated by the NSA, for having a site with "Militia" in the title, is finally aprehended under suspcion of espionage, and is questioned heavily about where the elusive Seamus might be, having no clue as mses Kidman and Zellweger has hidden the aforementioned Seamus, he is taken to Levenworth until he talks,despite the legal attempts of several compatriots of mr Johnson, who strangely enough arent really lawers but dress real snazzy and can look the part.(maj. Reeder) but just when all hope is lost, he is broken out in a daring daylight Raid By Seamus, and his Kashmir Konfederate Kommandos....afterwhich evidence comes forward that the Nsa was tampering with the website making it a secret transmitter for domestic operative, and mr Johnson wins the nobel Prize for Computer science....having spending his time in the pokey writing code for the next big thing in sofware "screendoor 2007" a vastly easier operating system for the redneck set, opening up computers to a whole new group of people.....
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
Um... Mr Seamus...
.. are you trying to seduce me?
"mr Johnson, who strangely enough arent really lawers but dress real snazzy and can look the part.(maj. Reeder)"
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
Monistary?
I believe that a monastary bein full of Monks would be a prime target for Ms. Annie to attempt to infiltrate. NOw if she was to head towards a Nunnery, then I'd be concerned.
"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys
All things Considered
And bein that monks tend to brew beer
I'm rather surprised that Seamus hasn't decided to attempt an infiltration.
After all, he'd blend in a heck of a lot better than CopperHead would.
~Miss Patti
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss
Are you implying....
...that Seamus has a Friar Tuck haircut?
"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers
2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"
No Im just being
No Im just being complementive(is that a word?) I think that beer and a receding hairline might give me some foothold with the brothers. though that whole celibate thing dismays me.....
Beer........celibacy......beer........celebacy...
I think I will just buy my beer....
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
Now for the Serious Stuff
Now I will make some real predictions,
1. Membership will grow across the board and I mean that for the board and the units in the state. as we move forward to support each others events and such with things like the kitchen cabinet, blackpowder show,, and the yet unplanned but oft thought of expo...
2.More combined events of a smaller nature, more to enhance our presence in the state and put ourselves in the public Eye
3.Advertising.......media maybe even a public affairs offic like org between our units.
4. Harmony and cooperation....Nuff Said!
5. Copperhead annie will have her sutlery up and running like a herd of mustangs!
oh by the way....Annie..Chest 45 belly 40
Im a mighty ,mighty man!
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth
Thanks Seamus I want to have
Thanks Seamus I want to have your waistcoat done for you by the time of the kitchen cabinet Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves By the way sales pitch here check out CopperHeadAnnies store at e-bay just look under stores then CopperHeadAnnies it is not much right now just a start. Thanks
Good luck with the store
Good luck with the store Copperheadannie! I put it in my ebay favorites. :-)
Cpl Marc Averill
29thGA
Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks for the kind words. Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves. CopperHeadAnnie
IN Shape
Seamus me Lad,
Whoever said you arent in shape? ROund is definately shape!
"Erin Go Braugh"
"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles
Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys
Sorry Seamus
I wasn't implying that you had a Friar Tuck haircut. Rather I suggested you for the job because
a)Monks brew beer, you drink beer, seems like a good match &
b)Monks do not have wahoobies the size of CopperHead's & neither do you so I figured you'd fit in better.
Besides its a moot point since you can get beer without the celibacy thing. Ain't life grand.
~Miss Patti
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss