House in the Horseshoe 2013 Re-enactment

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here we're at the Houston a horseshoe

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which was a militia battle involving

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Philip halston

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and the loyalist David Fanning we're

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recreating a 1781 skirmish between

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pro-independence and pro crown militia

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at house and horseshoe which the only

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Revolutionary War battlefield property

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that the state of North Carolina owns

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the unique aspects of the house and the

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horseshoe is simply this it is an

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original building from that period and

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this is a unique facility simply because

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it's still here and that's a it's a gem

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in our historical realm that we have

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here in North Carolina today we hosted

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our 34th annual Revolutionary War battle

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reenactment and it was a very good

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success

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small-arms musket demonstration first

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thing in the morning and we had periodic

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eighteenth-century

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cannon firings and drill through the

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afternoon so tell me about the camp

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every time you use the cannon you have

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to like put like different things in it

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so you could to make sure that it's safe

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it's awfully loud I think my favorite

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part is probably just seeing the

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reenactors and how they're in character

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the history aspect of it being able to

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interact with the volunteers

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it gave us a real big taste of what life

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was like for people at that time just

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I've learned so much between the British

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and camp men's the house the bullets in

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the house yeah I like learning history

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this way versus sitting in a classroom

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reading it learning it out of a book I

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get more out of this you learn more you

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think we just go to the grocery store

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and buy yarn or material and stuff and

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here would take them you know multiple

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days just prepare the thread before they

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can either use it to make the clothing

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the crowd is a little bit different

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there's they're more hands-on for the

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crowd here than they are at some of the

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other place

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and I think just the whole battle itself

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is a big draw his daddy and I met here

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and started dating here and two years

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ago we got married here so he thought it

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was right for Quinn to do his first

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reenactment he had to stay the night

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last night he'll stay the night again

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tonight and so far he's done really good

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I've been here before and I love always

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seeing how they used to camp back then I

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love camping and so it's it's really

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quite primitive and I look forward to

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seeing the barrel

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the party was exhausting he's outside

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waiting to light a profession to get

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famous attention he admired her bravery

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and degrees we do it because history is

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important

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not enough of the younger folks get to

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actually participate and our learns I

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believe it's important to keep America's

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history alive

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I've been re-enacting since I was 11 or

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so I think it's just a wonderful way to

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kind of capture not like the facts of

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history but the spirit of it like how

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things look how things felt just the

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general atmosphere which I think is an

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important part of understanding what

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went on we have a number of schools that

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participate in their history especially

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when it comes to North Carolina history

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and there's a consistent program set up

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here there was several campsites open

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loyalists and Patriots deaf people are

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able to wander through and engage with

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re-enactors and learn about what camp

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life was like what the militia life was

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like and there were also several sutlers

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here on the site that were selling their

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wares there are children clothing the

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herbs and colonial cooking even jewelry

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and the children you can look at a book

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you can look at a picture but to capture

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the essence of the historical aspect of

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this place you're here and it's an

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impacted they always remain re-enactors

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definitely come from as far away parts

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in Virginia they come from South

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Carolina a lot of them also from here in

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the state it's it's a long haul for some

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of them and they come and they camp for

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the weekend I believe one of the

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southeastern tourist entities made an

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evaluation and this is one of the top

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ten sites in North Carolina to visit

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this was the best attended event that I

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can remember in five years we also had a

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good showing of supporters who have been

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here throughout the possible closure of

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the site we've been able to sustain the

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operation of house in the horseshoe we

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will continue to operate it on a regular

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schedule to the public it's an extremely

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valuable

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colonial revolutionary and backcountry

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resource that the public have a right to

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see and experience

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