yay!
May 25th, 2009
I’m super excited to start off the new story arc! Writing an arc as it progresses rather than having the whole thing planned and written in advance will be an entirely new learning experience for me, and I’m excited to see how it goes. Hopefully I’ll remember to keep up. ;)
No matter what I try to write, Charlie seems to muscle her way into being a focal point, but this arc will also be taking time to focus on someone new. We’ll also be seeing a few new secondary (technically tertiary, probably) characters, and focusing in a bit more on the museum side versus the reenactment side of Dovecote Crest. All in all, I’m super pumped. :D
That makes two of us! :D
Hailey,
I though you and Bridget and the rest of the Dovecote Crest community (which is what we are, right?) might like to see what is happening with an active reenactment group in my home state of Maine. If I were still living there, I’d probably be a member. People in Mexico, where I live now, don’t know or care a lot about our Civil War, having gone through their own bloody revolution less than 100 years ago. Even so, my students pay attention when I talk about it and show clips from “Gettysburg.”
Here’s the link:
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/320876-3/Franklin/Musketry_history_humor/
I think it’s great that a reenactment of Little Round Top was considered to be a feasible fund-raising event. It also also speaks well of the historical literacy and interest of Maine people. I used to work at Bates College, where reenactor Glen Lawson (mentioned in the article) is a history professor. Whereas Charlie in the comic felt she had to make a choice between academic history and Dovecote Crest, Glen has managed to have it both ways.