Helping History Happen
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This is a brief episode announcing that the show is transitioning to a seasonal style show instead of a weekly show. I am also going to be focusing on the History Ambassadors Program and my personal life. Please do still reach out to me at help
“I’d love to get in my time machine and go walk down the streets and blend in if I could and hide as an invisible person in the crowd. But No, I want to come home, to my life of being free and being able to own things and being able to not die
“I really love the regular people. The people that are walking by on the street in the background of the painting. The people who are working in their house or are just doing regular things in regular life. That’s where I really love to study w
“Take a deep breath and smile. Because at the end, everyone goes home hopefully hale and sound and hopefully having had a good time. But it’s like getting married, in the end, you’re still married, in the end, you still had an event. And despit
“I’m not going to tell the stories of these women and then shut my mouth and put a blindfold on when I see things that I don’t agree with today. So I’ve been wrestling with that because there are certain organizations that you want to perform f
“The Super Bowl ya know they have 100,000 people, and it’s a sporting event. Why can’t we get people to come history events in that kind of number? And I kinda feel like we are doing that. Someone this year said in one of their posts that it fe
“Knowing the material you are talking about at a really great depth and then being able to use that to be able to put these connections together and to place things that might seem unplaceable to others.” Our Guest today is Gavin Kleespies. H
“An event you want to have a life beyond itself. The event is cool but how does that live to the next year, or to the next ten years, or to the next generation. What propels that forward?” Wendy lives in rural VT and came to history as a prof
“One thing that a lot of people who do reenacting or military living history don’t understand is the guys are tight; you know how each other think, you know how each other react to things.” Our Guest today is Scott Todd Dunkirk. Scott w
“History really does tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are.” Liz Covart is a historian of early American history who specializes in the cultural and political history of Revolutionary America. She is the creator and host of Ben
“It’s a struggle to inspire people who are getting very little monetarily or nothing out of it. Working with volunteers and trying to keep them to stay the course when you are asking so much of them.” Zane grew up in Texas and has been attend
“If they can go to one local historical site and realize how it connects to their lives. Or just to make something more tangible, I think that is so important, and I hope that is incorporated more and more in teaching history.” Ni
“When you finally make that connection to your past, it kinda shored up my future.” Our Guest today is Debra Yates. Debra hails from Ohio but now resides in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Being of Cherokee descent and having had stories passed down
Stacy Weissner is a founding member of the Regency Society of Virginia and currently, serves as the event coordinator for that organization. She grew up in central Virginia and now lives in Hampton Roads with her husband and two children. The
“History Travel and Travel bloggers, in general, are a really good way to go because it makes other people think of this as an activity, not a lesson.” Our Guest today is Stephanie Craig. Stephanie is a history travel blogger and podcaster.
“The research never ends. No matter how much you think you found, there’s more. And after a while, you just know it viscerally.” Our Guest today is Richard Schwartz. Richard is a historian and the author of five different historical books abo
“So you really need to look beyond just the day, two days, three weeks whatever of the event and look at the year-round presence and your year-round relationship with the people involved…. Build those long term relationships it’s great support;
“Oh, you never want to hear those words, ‘Can you shorten the story?’ Because every sentence leads to the next, it’s crucial.” Our Guest today is Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. Gwendolyn is a fantastic storyteller and talented per
“You’re standing right in that spot. It leads to a whole new dynamic of what your research is or what your passion is. And you can almost feel it, you can see it. It’s really amazing.” Our Guest today is Jim Pereira. He is the Captain and Com
“First person Interpretation is diving into their entire worldly milieu from the time that they were born till the time that you are portraying them. Not only knowing their life but every single person they interacted with in their entire
“You have to make them do it. You can’t just put up a mannequin and say ‘Look how complicated this is, these people were really smart to be able to do this.’ You have to make somebody try it themselves.” Lynne Bassett is an award-winning inde
“We give a sense of what people are doing and how they feel about it. Which is what you don’t get out of history books. You don’t get that out of a third person thing either, where you are out of character. You don’t get the feelings that peopl
“There is just so much more to enjoying what you have, especially nature and everything around you instead of trying to achieve things that are really just not that important.” Our Guest today is Richard C. Wright. Richard has h
“We have the knowledge, and we have the chance, and we have the ability. We’re conscious. It’s all about our conscious consumerism and being able to make those choices.” Originally from the UK, Rebecca Lafont moved to Paris in 1998. She has s
“You always join something if the person is kind or nice.” Our Guest today is Ian Graves. Ian started reenacting in 2006 with a British Revolutionary War unit. Three years later he started sewing leather goods for the group. I
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