justifying using modern technology

[crashdive123]

Had a can of Billy Beer ---- tasted like peanuts.

[Ken]

Billy Beer: Flat. Tasteless. Weak. Not worth the $1.75 or so it cost for a six-pack of the stuff back then.

Hmmm. May still have an empty can around somewhere in my collection.

[Alpine_Sapper]

Actually, I spent a lot of time in the cloak room by myself. Awwww those were the good old days.

Soooooo, what grade were you in when you finally came out of the closet and started socializing?

[Ken]

Soooooo, what grade were you in when you finally came out of the closet and started socializing?

YES! YES, YES, YES! A Grand Slam!

[nell67]

Soooooo, what grade were you in when you finally came out of the closet and started socializing?

Awwww,Alpine,you didn't really go there,LMAO!

[Rick]

Hey, I wasn't in there by choice. The teacher sat my desk in there and told me how special I was. What she didn't know was I was collecting all the lunch money and picking out what I liked from the lunch boxes.

[crashdive123]

Uh...that would have been my story too.

[Rick]

Well I'll be danged! You, too? Small world.

[Beo]

Somehow I missed this posting, hmmm.
For me I go pretty primitive when trekking with my group, we do 1750s to 1770s nothing modern after that. I do however go with others and we use modern equipment. Its a personal choice and there really is no line.
I go primitive with the COHT or the Coalition of Historical Trekkers: as living historians dedicated to the preservation and study of the pre-1860 frontier people in America. We see ourselves as experimental archaeologists, involved in one or more eras of the historical time frame from 1600 to the year 1860. As is the purpose of an archaeologist, to establish facts about a historical people or time period, we research the lifeways of the pre-1860 frontier people who lived in, fought for, and founded this country. Our research is accompanied by experimentation in historical situations, using the foods, tools, clothing, weapons, and methods authentic to those used by the early frontier people here in America. Believing that the best way to preserve history is to share it, we communicate this research and the results of our experimentation with others through educational events and publications dedicated to pre-1860 America. We pledge to keep alive the awareness of those brave people who lived and died while carving out a place in the wilderness. We recognize that it was these brave men and women who made it possible for us, and generations to come, to live here in the land of the free-America. We have done this for the boy scouts up to college classes, and even ROTC classes, my group does the 1750s to 1770s era only and we do no battle reenactments, usually going out in groups of five, ten, or even as many as thirty one time and spiltting up into smaller groups. Its a really good time.

[trax]

Don't forget- Stag Beer, Blatz and of course Billy Beer

Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (ordering beer for Chris O'Donnell) "Schlitz. No Schlitz, Blatz. No Blatz...improvise"

[sobeit]

Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (ordering beer for Chris O'Donnell) "Schlitz. No Schlitz, Blatz. No Blatz...improvise"

Thank God Texas has Shiner Bock, I have a six pack of billy beer you thank it' safe to drank

[dragonjimm]

any of you local cajuns remember jax beer.

worst hang over i ever had was from drinking 40 oz malt beer i had 2.

[dragonjimm]

and i like modern for getting things done but i also enjoy primitive ways makes you appreciate the modern and its just enjoyable to me.

@beo...there is a living history group close by here i'm thinking of joining.
they do a lot with schools and scouts. they cover time periods from colonial America through WWII and Native Americans.