Confessions of a Living Historian: A Decade of the Antics and Misadventures of a Civil War Reenactor" is the story of Darin Richardson's first ten years as a Civil War reenactor in the most unlikeliest of places: Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This book chronicles his beginnings as a reenactor up to the time he quit the hobby, then his return to it in recent years.
This book has it all: Escaped mental patients, "The Edwin Incident, " "K-Mart Confederates, " drunken escapades, "Weasel and the Hicks, " two "social diseases", skinny-dipping at reenactments, the "Rebel Rap, " firearm blunders, interesting uses for coffee, an encounter with Bigfoot, nightmare trips to California reenactments, sexual encounters, belly dancers, a guy named Dub, "hunaha, hu, " being misquoted in newspapers, a trip of a lifetime to Tennessee and Georgia, The Ten Constants of Reenacting, outrageous questions asked by spectators, and views on "hardcore" reenactors and women who portray soldiers.