- Joined
- Dec 31, 2009
- Location
- Smack dab in the heart of Texas
Flu's over...but James just keeps on kicking the bucket...over and over and over. By my last count, about five times this week alone.
Still loving every update.
Quick question.. did Murdzak make the colors for the Regt? I know his flags have always been amazing pieces of art
Well some more sad news regarding the making of the film Glory. The films music composer James Horner died yesterday in a plane crash. The list of his film scores he composed for famous movies is too long to list here but some standouts include Glory, Titantic, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Avatar, Field of Dreams, Mask of Zorro, Aliens and A Beautiful Mind just to name a few. Condolences to his family, fans of movies will definitely miss his work.
Good thing I'm self-employed and have very good employees. I've spent the better part of the afternoon reading through this thread. Outstanding.
... If you don't mind my asking - which semi-recent(ish?) Texas living history event did you manage to have the 'reunion' with a Battery Wagner fiberglass gun at?
I spend a fair amount of time up your way on - perhaps someday we shall cross paths.
I find your adventures absolutely intriguing, sir. Thank you for sharing them with us.
My pleasure, and thanks for the compliment. About the only event I attend any more with any kind of regularity is the annual Saturday during the Tyler Azalea Trail, usually held around the last weekend in March or the first in April, to hopefully coincide with the blooms, which don't always cooperate! It's a sort of show-and-tell sponsored by the local SCV camp and held at the grounds of Camp Ford, former Confederate mustering-in site that became a prison for Union soldiers and sailors captured at places like Sabine Pass and Mansfield.
At one event Danny Sessums brought one of the 42-pounders remounted on a naval truck for the TV production Ironclads. He carried it in the bed of his large pickup and it looked formidable with its muzzle poking over the tailgate!
There's been some question about the fate of this lately, though, what with all the "politically correct" foolishness about the Confederate Flag though, so better to investigate first rather than just heading over!
My wife and daughter watching the film The Last of the Mohicans.
I recently remembered these photos I'd taken a few years back showing some of the souvenir T-shirts from Glory and Last of the Mohicans laid out on my bed above. This is one of the notorious giveaways provided to the thousands of "volunteer" extras in the scene of the 54th marching off to war in "Boston":
Is that the only way you can get to see American films.My wife and daughter watching the film The Last of the Mohicans.