Confessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War Reenactor

“Confessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War Reenactor” is the story of Darin Richardson’s first ten years as a Civil War reenactor in the most unlikeliest of places: Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This book chronicles his beginnings as a reenactor up to the time he quit the hobby, then his return to it in recent years. This book has it all: Escaped mental patients; “The Edwin Incident;” “K-Mart Confederates;” drunken escapades; “Weasel and the Hicks,” two “social diseases”; skinny-dipping at reenactments; the “Rebel Rap;” firearm blunders; interesting uses for coffee; an encounter with Bigfoot; nightmare trips to California reenactments; sexual encounters; belly dancers; a guy named Dub; “hunaha, hu;” being misquoted in newspapers; a trip of a lifetime to Tennessee and Georgia; The Ten Constants of Reenacting; outrageous questions asked by spectators, and views on “hardcore” reenactors and women who portray soldiers.