I was thinking about a recent thread. It was talking about the joys of states ticking off the Bradey campaign.
My kids go to a small school here in NE Kansas. The school had their annual history fair yesterday. Since I have been laid up for a couple weeks after a accident at work. Man this little fair was pretty cool with a huge plus. Walking around the gym and outside at the diffrent displays I counted 23 firearms. A 7th grader posing as the sherriff was carrying a Walker. Another Civil War era soldier a 6th grader was carrying a 1860 new army.
At the frontiersman display a complete camp to include knives, a custom made .36 caliber squirel rifle. The civil war camp had two cannons several muskets, including two Pedersoili flintlocks and a Pedersoili Sharps rifle.
The buffalo hunters has a pair of .72 caliber flintlocks. Among many other misc peices.
The pony express station included a couple misc ball and cap revolvers a cattlemans carbine. The kids acting as the pony express riders rode thier horses to school.
Nice to see in this day and age something like this still goes on. No problems no mass murders, plenty of firearms and black powder. The cannons were fired a few times through out the day. Just a bunch of folks going through learning about history the kids did a great job.
I purchased a couple things that I have never seen before and thought they were cool. The first was Cartouce candy. A wrapped up peice of paper you ripped the end off with your teeth and found a root beer ball. Then the powder charge was some sort of fun dip type stuff. Interesting item.
The other was a nice hiking/walking staff. Made a local man who is part of the local Potawatomi tribe. The top of the staff has been carved into what I would call a Indian wooden flute. It came with my choice of a hand carved totum. This guy could play it like magic. Me however not so much.
You really have to love small towns. The school trophey cases are full of football, wrestling, basketball trophies. Then other cases are full of livestock judging, rodeo, and agricultural trophies. A small town is good enough for me.
My kids go to a small school here in NE Kansas. The school had their annual history fair yesterday. Since I have been laid up for a couple weeks after a accident at work. Man this little fair was pretty cool with a huge plus. Walking around the gym and outside at the diffrent displays I counted 23 firearms. A 7th grader posing as the sherriff was carrying a Walker. Another Civil War era soldier a 6th grader was carrying a 1860 new army.
At the frontiersman display a complete camp to include knives, a custom made .36 caliber squirel rifle. The civil war camp had two cannons several muskets, including two Pedersoili flintlocks and a Pedersoili Sharps rifle.
The buffalo hunters has a pair of .72 caliber flintlocks. Among many other misc peices.
The pony express station included a couple misc ball and cap revolvers a cattlemans carbine. The kids acting as the pony express riders rode thier horses to school.
Nice to see in this day and age something like this still goes on. No problems no mass murders, plenty of firearms and black powder. The cannons were fired a few times through out the day. Just a bunch of folks going through learning about history the kids did a great job.
I purchased a couple things that I have never seen before and thought they were cool. The first was Cartouce candy. A wrapped up peice of paper you ripped the end off with your teeth and found a root beer ball. Then the powder charge was some sort of fun dip type stuff. Interesting item.
The other was a nice hiking/walking staff. Made a local man who is part of the local Potawatomi tribe. The top of the staff has been carved into what I would call a Indian wooden flute. It came with my choice of a hand carved totum. This guy could play it like magic. Me however not so much.
You really have to love small towns. The school trophey cases are full of football, wrestling, basketball trophies. Then other cases are full of livestock judging, rodeo, and agricultural trophies. A small town is good enough for me.