Early on, the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval re-enactment group, was invited to give demonstrations.
He belonged to a medieval re-enactment group and took lessons to learn to ride horses, care for them and joust at the fairs.
As a way of honoring his forebears, Mr. Dillon drives down to Virginia several times a year to play the fife in a Second Virginia Regiment re-enactment group that appears around that state.
A member of the Long Island chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a Middle Ages re-enactment group, Dr. MacMenamin came to the convention to recruit knights and winsome damsels.
"When we do small re-enactments in historical societies and we are portraying, say the years 1777 or 1778, in our talks, we praise Benedict Arnold as a great hero and people would look confused," said Thomas Traue, commander of the Fifth Connecticut Regiment, a re-enactment group that will participate in the Ridgefield celebration.
There are three intermissions and two meal breaks, as well as a few food vendors, portable toilets and a medieval-style tent or two to promote a local preservation society or battle re-enactment group — a spartan setup on what Mr. Bagnall calls "sacred ground".
There have been several potential buyers, including a man who was looking for a good place to store his taxidermy collection; a medieval re-enactment group; and a software executive interested in using it as a country retreat and data center.
And both the Star and Daily Express feature striking images of the flowers raining down over a re-enactment group dressed as WW1 British soldiers at an event in Dorset.
"It began when I joined a Viking and re-enactment group in Norway," she explains.
A 4-inch gun mount and a shell hoist are kept in working order and used during blank-firing demonstrations by the Wavy Navy re-enactment group.
I learn, when Jon arrives, that there's rivalry between historical re-enactment groups.
