![]() ![]() This made the weekend refuge something more permanent, but also brought it back into closer contact with the realities of the postindustrial American economy, in which knowledge, service, experience, and cultural production of all kinds are increasingly gobbled up into revenue-generating projects. I did, though, encounter quite a number of younger Gen X and Gen Y reenactors who were becoming more professional about their avocation and finding ways to turn it into an occupation, usually at places like Plimoth Plantation and other living history sites. Reenactors created a weekend refuge rather than a resistance movement, which gave them a sense of having escaped temporarily from the modern capitalist world rather than having to mount any kind of direct challenge to it. In this case, it was framed within an explicitly avocational world. I came away from that with a sense of reenactment as a highly complex response to and expression of ambivalence about many things in contemporary society – for example, changing gender roles, the uneasy patriotisms and nationalisms of the post-Vietnam era, and the iconic figure of the American citizen-soldier.īut through all of this there was also a strand of ambivalence about the broader effects of capitalism and modernity, and I came to see reenactment within a much longer history of anti-modernism. My trajectory as a scholar started with studying historical (mostly military) reenactment in the 1990s. I’m going to talk about Plimoth in relation to two terms: “occupation” (and re-occupation) and “refuge,” in both its social/spiritual sense and in the biological sense of refugium, or an isolated place that provides specialized conditions and habitat for species that can no longer survive elsewhere. So I’ll try to show why that all connects, and what emerging meanings and uses it suggests to me for this place, the myths associated with it, and the tensions and knowledge embodied in those myths. and we were without power for several days this week after getting nearly two feet of snow just before Halloween. It was particularly interesting to do this because I was doing a lot of it by candlelight. What a nice guy! It was a pleasure doing business with him.Plenary session remarks at New England American Studies Association Conference, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MAĪ place like Plimoth Plantation is always good to think with, but I’m particularly glad to have been asked to reflect on it now, because as I thought about it this past week, I realized that it let me integrate things I’ve been considering over the whole course of my 20-year intellectual trajectory, which I’ll try to compress as ruthlessly as possible into a few minutes here. ![]() I was greatly impressed selling my safe with Olde Tyme Auctions. He even sold our car for us which brought in a lot more than we originally thought it would. What a great experience! Chris worked really hard to earn us top dollar for our merchandise. ![]() I decided to go with Chris Sprigle at Olde Tyme Auctions and I’m so glad I did. I had some various items to sell so I researched a few different auctioneers. Chris is a good man and I enjoyed doing business with him. To my surprise Chris was able to achieve a sound price for them. Among the items I wanted to sell at auction were some farm tools that I didn’t think were worth very much. Olde Tyme Auctions treated me with respect and fairness. With his connections, experience, and most of all, honesty and integrity, he was able to sell an item for us for $13,000.And to think we were about to throw it away! Thanks for the check. Fortunately my internet searches also turned up Chris at Olde Tyme Auctions. Experts on-line were eager to buy it, offering me as much as $3000. The first piece of what we once thought was scrap turned out to be somewhat collectible. My first instinct was to rush to the internet to check possible values before disposing of anything. Since retiring earlier this year, the process of downsizing and moving from our house to a condo has unearthed a lot of long forgotten items. We were so surprised when our safe sold for $17,000! Thank you Olde Tyme Auctions for a job well done. He really worked hard for us and marketed the item well. Chris was excited about our piece and the dollar value we could achieve by selling it at auction. Having been unsure about the value of an old miniature York Safe we wanted to sell, we contacted Chris at Olde Tyme Auctions. ![]() I have since told others about what great service and professionalism I experience from Olde Tyme Auctions. I appreciated that he came to my house to pick up my items to be sold at auction. He’s fair, honest, and treated me very well.I don’t think there is a better auctioneer than him. ![]()
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