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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, April 19, 2004 :::
Neo-Confederate Weirdness
The trip to Charleston, St. Simons Island, and Jekyll Island went well.
On Friday we just kind of did a drive-by of the C.S.S. Hunley funeral events. I've been feeling weirder and weirder about this Civil War reenactment stuff since I've been researching Confederate Monuments in the UDC papers and seen some of the racist and false statements in there. But Eighteenth Century lady likes the clothes so off we went. We got a parking place right next to the church where the bodies were in state while other people were walking 10+ blocks to get there. The whole weekend was like that, we'd go up to a restaurant with a huge line, and they would say "Oh, its a thirty minute wait, its all large parties, oh look, a two-top table just opened, come on in!", stuff like that.
The scene inside the church was strange melange of reverence, rednecks on vacation, and ignorant Americans at their best. Men in Confederate uniforms were openly weeping, little boys fidgeted around with their cheesy felt Confederate caps and toy muskets, and big fat guys with Confederate flags on their shirts and with their toothless mates in tow blabbered on cell phones: "Hey Zeke, I'm here in the church where them fellas from that submahrine are laid out."
After that we headed to Fort Moultrie which was a little more normal, being a National Park site and all. My traveling friend got to hobnob with the ladies about their clothes and we toured the fort. Lots of folks had their dogs with them, the weather was 80 degrees and breezy, a perfect afternoon.
Later: Antique finds and the islands.
::: posted by tom at 10:25 AM
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