The main event this year was cool in general, weather, rain, nights, and all.
TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote: The battles are cool
The battles were silly and a bit embarrassing - one cannot recreate a matter of tens of thousands with two handfuls of people.
But the camp impression was good, meeting the pards was good, marching to a drumbeat was good.
Now, my gear is greased and polished and back in the boxes for the rest of the year and the better half of the next.
Leoba quoted an interesting article which points out a distinguisihing point between two kinds of reenactments: the "show" (display of thousands of fat clerks bellowing hurrah or i-yi-yi-yi) and the "living history" (a single guy in a uniform telling people the whats and whys). And then there is the "experience" (and that is for the participant alone). "Show" has become increasingly unimportant for the son of Mummpizz' mother.