Jack of All Trades, Master of None

...Being a true and faithfull account of a soldier, sailor, joiner, tailor, husbandman and smith.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Queen’s Rangers: Rockefeller Library

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Detail from the cartouch of an artist’s proof of a plan of the Battle of Green Springs. The figure is an Hussar if the QR. One of t...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Making the Ligonier Shoepack

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Bespoke shoepacks.  One of the many messes on my workbench a few weeks ago. The original of this moccasin/shoe hybrid can be ...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017

"Rancid Beef and Wormy Biscuit": Notes on "Improving" 18th c Cooking, Messing and Kitchens

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Virginians of Bibb's Company, Prince Edward County Militia, pause to cook rations on the march to Guilford CH, 1781. Note the us...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Recreating a Virginia Shot Pouch and the Jacob Thomson Powder Horn

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With my oldest son's birthday coming up, I wanted to give him something other than video games.  Hopefully this will energize hi...
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