Centennial Village Re-enactment

Centennial Village is in the town to the west of us, and it has all the history of how Greeley got started. it's a pretty cool little place.  They hosted a Civil War Re-Enactment, and it was SO cool!

My son had to go for his History class, and my Friend said - I'm going to photograph, want to come - and so I did!!

I am so glad! We got to go *behind the war* and get embedded with the troops - and I tell you what!

Even tho this was a re-enactment, and they were shooting blanks - it gave us a total new respect for those embedded Journalists and photographers in real wars... Holee Molee.... but it was SO cool!!

 They actually shot this!

and it was loud

and the time it took to re-load , you can imagine how slow the Civil War seemed to today's

 I think that while they were reloading they needed some sort of cover

and this guy to the back shows up

Notice he's not in a uniform?

 This is a long rifle 

He talked about it after wards

It takes a while to reload

Just so you know

I didn't know I caught this

There were shots, and we were looking both ways

and it was loud

And I decided that Today's journalists look at their cameras in shock and say -

Wow - I caught that?

My photographer friend and I went to hide in the kitched

and not 5 minutes later this soldier comes right through our hiding place

and when he looked right at me, I think I thought about screaming

he was so great - he didn't even laugh at me scrambling to get out of the way

It was a great experience

and i was so lucky that my friend asked me to go

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