Lightly Tripping the Light Fantastic
This has been a super busy week for us here at the homestead, as we spent most of it in Munfordville making sure our Civil War Days festival came off as it should (I’m the co-chair of this annual event). It turned out there were only a few minor fires to put out this year. The weather was great, our crowds were huge, the craftspeople were happy, the re-enactors were here in abundance, and the Battle of the Bridge was won amidst much crowd-pleasing cannon fire and cavalry charges by both the north AND the south (the North on Saturday and the South on Sunday. Equal time, you know).
Saturday night was our “famous Blue / Grey Ball”, held in the huge tent pitched next to our courthouse, with the wonderful 52nd Regimental String Band (pictured above) providing the music and dance instruction. Now, I must confess I have NEVER danced in public, and normally never would… EXCEPT for the Blue / Grey Ball. There, each year, I am forced to dance the Virginia Reel, the Sweetheart Promenade and Patty-Cake-Polka for three hours straight by my adoring wife and daughter who insist on dancing every dance. While I am hardly light on my feet, we’ve been doing these dances enough years now that we look like we know what we’re doing… and this year I even was told we were pretty good at it too. Come on down next year and check us out.
