#re-enactor

I’d say no 😀 I do some crafting that has something to do with re-enactment and I definitely like the scientific aspects of my hobbies and my lifestyle so I do come in contact with experimental archaeology and such, but I don’t think I would label myself as a re-enactor. What I do is, I take historical concepts and approach them with my modern day knowledge of things. Since I speak several…

"It does let you step back and have a breather," said John Browne, a 22-year-old Civil War re-enactor originally from Seattle but who has lived in Brevard, N.C., since he was 12.

Browne said in his Civil War re-enactment camp he doesn't have to worry about people pulling out their cell phones, getting connected to the outside world and ignoring everyone else around them.

Sitting in his Confederate camp at Gettysburg with only a lantern and the stars for light, Browne said, "It's a good thing that we're not supposed to have technology out here because (the technology) inhibits us from being able to develop relations with the humans right next to us, instead of being very deep into our phone at the moment."

"Everybody should go camping," he said. "Things move very, very fast today with our communications… It's almost unnatural the speed we're going."