The Regiment attended the Military Timeline Event at Historic Cold Spring Village again, as part of our summer tradition. Unfortunately, two of our members originally planning to go were unable to at the last minute, so our showing was a little small, but that did not prevent us from having a good time. Usually this event is marked by high temps and extreme humidity, but this year the weather was in the 70s with low humidity--and few to no bugs! A particularly comfortable event, to say the least.
We have been set up in one particular area for the past several years, but as we were doing late Victorian this time, and a few of our friends were also doing late Victorian near the entrance of the site, we decided to join them and relocate our display. Thus, instead of having two small displays of one time, we had one larger one. This also meant that others could go explore the site and other exhibits while people were still in camp to keep an eye on everything. Nobody was ever left alone "minding the store."
On Saturday we were told about 300 visitors passed through and we spoke with a number of different groups that passed by, curious about the British Empire and Her Majesty's finest. Our display consisted of our civilian Kim, our nurse Sharon, and enlisted soldiers for the 35th Royal Sussex in the Egypt Campaign, 72nd Highlanders in the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War, plus the Derbyshire Regiment and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the 2nd Boer War.
We have been set up in one particular area for the past several years, but as we were doing late Victorian this time, and a few of our friends were also doing late Victorian near the entrance of the site, we decided to join them and relocate our display. Thus, instead of having two small displays of one time, we had one larger one. This also meant that others could go explore the site and other exhibits while people were still in camp to keep an eye on everything. Nobody was ever left alone "minding the store."
On Saturday we were told about 300 visitors passed through and we spoke with a number of different groups that passed by, curious about the British Empire and Her Majesty's finest. Our display consisted of our civilian Kim, our nurse Sharon, and enlisted soldiers for the 35th Royal Sussex in the Egypt Campaign, 72nd Highlanders in the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War, plus the Derbyshire Regiment and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the 2nd Boer War.
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