My first event of the season will be the Immortal 600 in Savannah.  Anyone else going?  

--Last edited by Ken Cornett on 2007-01-15 15:37:48 --

I be a gaurd there. How about you.

Yep, with Mess No.1.

CPH events?  McDowell, for sure.  Then the Gettysburg LH with the RPs.  Lots of 'other' events this year, though, starting with a winter encampment tomorrow with a competitive live shoot tomorrow to determine bragging rights for "the cup" for the next year.  Then Battle for Columbia, Aiken, Rivers Bridge, Cheraw, the Columns, etc.  This will be the busiest year for me in many as instate and regional events are the order of the day, although I will be at September Storm and doing the march into the site.

Looks like a busy and interesting year.  CPH?  Well, maybe not so much.  Too many other opportunities much closer to home and without the baggage.

My first couple of events are Shiloh LH and Vicksburg LH

Crabby

This year I'm scaling back to just 2-4 events.  I have two genealogy books I'm trying to complete before my mother passes on -- one her line, and the other my father's, who'd of thunk.

But this year will find me at the Pre-trial event in late March at Brown's Stand in TN.  The event is being put on by Matt Rector and will be the location of the crime that will be tried at the larger event to be held in August that I'm putting on.  http://cw186165.homestead.com/TrialIndex.html

Other than that, I may or may not attend any other events this year.  Just depends upon what the year has to offer.

I don't know Duke, I think there are plenty of good CPH events out there this year.  You have the I-600, Vicksburg, Banks Grand Retreat, Outpost III, to name a few.  

I'm not sure if I would put McDowell in a CPH category, but that's just me.

I haven't said there aren't many or any "CPH" events this year.  Of course, all of that pre-supposes we could agree upon what a "CPH event" might be to begin with.  Fine.  Please feel free to attend all of them you wish.  I no longer enjoy the drive time I was once willing to invest in these events.  I have also found over time that the return just hasn't been there.  As far as the McDowell bashing, I won't go there, either.  Been there and done that and, at the same time, find it very amusing that those that have done it and continue to do it consistently have either never attended the event or were late in the discovery of better gear and different events or they have their own agendas, often including pushing their own events or events sponsored by their friends ( which automatically means the events are better by their very definition. )   That school yard stuff is so overdone.  I refuse to get sucked in anymore.

I'm putting McDowell in the "cph" event category for me..if anyone still uses that.    September Storm and the RP Gettysburg LH, too.  If the "cph category" actually was defineable, it might mean something; but as it is, it's so subjective it almost amounts to the following:

CPH events:  Events I attend/sponsor/my friends attend/sponsor
Non-CPH events:  Events I don't attend/sponsor/have friends that attend/sponsor

I'm not spending another year devoting any energy to that debate.  Most of the people who routinely engage in it on the forums are not subject to persuasion or reason anyway.  My very first event was in 1989 and I didn't own much less take a tent.  It was the 125th Wilderness.  Not a "CPH" event by anyone's standards.  In fact, a mega-event, but I went in and came out with just what was in my knapsack or I was wearing.  Ate out of the haversack for 4 days.  1 blanket with no groundcloth.  So, don't tell me what is "CPH."  I figured that out a long time ago.

Hate to sound cranky, but this categorizing crap has run its course and is actually hurting in recruiting people to the hobby.  Nobody likes to be told they, their gear or their events suck or are not "authentic" especially after they have spent their hard-earned coin getting there.   The goal of any hobby is to have a good time.  If your idea of having a good time is telling others their events/impressions/units are crappy, that's another hobby entirely and just because you wear a Hardee hat while doing it doesn't make it ACW reenacting.

I'm assuming the name of the forum here means something.  Let's seek common ground rather than saying this event rocks and this event sucks and all based on your own subjective standards.  When we can all agree on what those standards might be, that will be a different game altogether.  Until then, it's all a matter of opinion.  One is just as entitled to one as another.  

--Last edited by DukeRPSC on 2007-01-22 18:04:06 --

Duke,

Ken didn't bash McDowell. He simply said that according to his criteria, it doesn't qualify as a CPH event and he is welcome to that opinion. Other people's mileage may vary.

You are in the CPH folder and what constitutes a CPH event is a perfectly valid topic on this particular folder. Every member of the Forum is welcome to participate on any of the folders. They are also welcome not to participate on the folders that hold no interest for them.

 

Hmm,

I guess I could get into a "Western vs Eastern" thing, but that would be too much like an "Us vs Them" thing.  Nah, I better stick to my own rules for this forum.

Ken,

I wanted to attend the Immortal 600 in the worst way, but real life got in the way. My company's annual Convention is the following week. From everything I've heard, the last edition of this event was outstanding.

 

Not long until we roll out for this one.  Mess No.1 has it's usual ten bodies attending.  I'll give a full report when it's over.

I hope to be able to goto...

1) Banks Grand Retreat( only if i dont have ACT/michigan merit exam testing that week)
2) Vicksburg LH
3) Mcdowell
4)Fort wayne LH
5) Outpost III


Cheers!

John  

--Last edited by John Legg on 2007-02-11 17:59:56 --

Hello

Here is what I plan on going too....

Battle of Resaca,-trying to establish a CS campaigner adjunct like the WIG is doing for US, just keeping it quiet to see how it will run this year.
Chickamauga LH, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Sept. 21,23
Out Post III, Spring Hill Tennessee, October 26,28
Ft. Mcallister- If it is done again this year.  

--Last edited by Joey21stga on 2007-04-17 17:59:46 --

OK I'm missing something here...why isn't McDowell considered a C/H/ whatever, event again? I missed it the first time around.
I'm not trying to stir some stuff, it's just as an old timer in this game I have lost track of what is which--I know that these definitions have been hacked to death, and I thought I understood them...but apparently I don't.

Participants at McDowell march up a gawdawful hill to fight on rough terrain, sorta like Rich Mt.
There is supposed to be first person interaction like I was led to believe is at hardcore events.
Participants are likely to camp in different places and have to carry all their stuff as in a campaign event.
It is based on an actual engagement on original ground like Payne's Farm.
Participants are to make do with issued food and expect anything like I thought was a hardcore.

So why isn't it one of those events again? What'd I miss?

Spence~

IMHO, McDowell is a Progressive event. For lack of a better term "looser" event standards. And Taters. Yep, there's Taters. Last time they were driven around in those metal hay wagons, drawn by horses. Made me feel like I was in Jurasic Park. Then say, Winter of 64 is what I'd consider a hardcore event. Or any event I go to because it rains buckets (LOL). IMHO, Mcdowell is just done too much. I know, I know, the money goes good places. Maybe I just have a short attention span.

Careful Grumpy, don't give away the answers to the question out in CPH 101 right now.   It's a quiz after all.  

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IMHO, McDowell is a Progressive event.

I, too, would term it as Progressive. Which -- to me, anyway -- means it is not totally incorrect to talk about it in the C/P/H section and this thread -- it being a C/P/H event.

FWIW, I too will be attending McDowell, and am looking forward to it. It has some other very fine reenactors scheduled to attend, and I'm looking forward to seeing them and interacting with them.

Can't understand the confusion. Seems contrived. Trying to fit events into labels is bass-ackwards, isn't it?

McDowell is a living history at which, on Saturday, reenactors who value authenticity operate as if it were 1862, for the benefit of themselves and spectators and at which, on Sunday,
they depict part of the battle of Sitlington Hill without spectators, for their own benefit.

Apparently a lot of photos got taken at this one. We'll let them speak for themselves. And maybe the fellows who did advance guard Saturday night can speak to their experience. Ditto the fellows cooking the fresh beef ration Saturday. Or the men who charged up the same hill as the 75th Ohio Sunday morning, literally in their footsteps.  

My only suggestion is to not let anyone else do your thinking for you. There's quite a few willing to do that job, but it's really better to do it yourself, by finding out from the people who were there for the 2007 event.

Labels, labels, labels. I hate labels.