Living History

Elizabeth as Polly Wanton

This week Alena interviewed Elizabeth Sulock, Marketer and Historical Interpreter at the Newport Historical Society. They talked about:
• Elizabeth’s start in living history
• Working for the Newport Historical Society
• portraying historical personage, Polly Wanton
• sewing and costuming
• Interpreting pregnancy
• Polly on Facebook
Also included this week is a review of the book: I Believe in Yesterday.

Musical Interlude: Over the Hills and Far Away performed by 3 Pints Gone

Download: Interview with Elizabeth Sulock

This week Alena and Stephen talk about their favorite places on the web, and how living history folks can utilize the web for research, community, information gathering and tons more. We talked about:
• Unit and LH group webpages – like the Saint Maximilian Landsknecht Reenactment Guild,
• Blogs – like Historic Cookery, Drifting Focus, Colonial Williamsburg’s Blog, and Tempus Fugit, and aggregators like the Civil War Interactive, and SCA Today.net.
• Forums – like Landsknecht.org, Living History Worldwide, The Muzzleloading Forum, and Armour Archive
• Digital Archives and Collections – like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Parker Library on the Web
• Vendors – including Reconstructing History, Jas. Townsend and Son, Amazon (in various countries)
• eBay & Etsy
• YouTube
• Google books
Musical Interlude: Come and I Will Sing You performed by Great Big Sea

Download: Living History on the Web
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