A Woodsrunner's Camp By Keith H. Burgess and Mark Jones. Video.

New Forum For The "New England Colonial Living History Group"

Our group now has a new site/forum. Anyone can read the posts on this forum, but only active members can make posts and post replies. You can access this forum at: http://livinghistory.proforums.org/

Publicity For 18th Century Living History.

On Wednesday the 7th of October our group, the New England Colonial living History Group attended the "STRESS LESS DAY" event in the Armidale NSW Mall. The idea was for a variety of non profit groups to display what they had to offer to the general public. For people who might be stressed and looking for a hobby or a way to meet other people and perhaps find new friends.

To this end we had two poster boards with photos of Living Historians in a variety of personas and period dress, plus we had pamphlets and a photo album of period equipment and a dressmaker's dummy dressed in period clothing.

Unfortunately hardly anyone turned up and little interest was shown in any of the displays other than the free sausage sizzle! My youngest sone who was helping me got a parking ticket gratitude of the local council for $85.00 dispite there being plenty of parking room and all this whilst my son was listening to the mayor's speech!!! I of course felt obliged to pay my son's parking fined as he was there to help me help the public!

An expensive day all round and a complete waist of time and money. I am not sure what one needs to do to make the people sit up and take notice. Anyway we tried, and dispite it being a waist of our time and money we do actually feel better for having been there.

I Want One!

My Life Magazine; Armidale and District Recruitment!

Well I have just been interviewed by My Life Magazineas a spokesperson for the New England Colonial Living History Group. Let us hope that this article can attract more members for our group.
I started this group about 18 years ago, three other people came in response to my advertising to help me start this group. Those people became founding members like myself. They were Geoff Howarth, Arthur Baker and Shane Murphy. All three were prime-movers in our group. These men became my very close friends, and they are now all dead. I am the only remaining founder member alive and I fear that if we do not find more people to join our group, it will die with me!
I have tried everything over the years to find more members; posters in the Armidale Public Library and on other notice boards, events in the local Newspaper, registered our group on the internet, printed information brochures for distribution and yet in 18 years we have had no enquiries!!! We are now down to four members, the other three are much younger than I but like I said, I can't see this group continueing after I have gone and I need someone else to take up the rains, someone I can pass on my skills to.
Here's hoping, fingers crossed!

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