Bob “Slim” Bowser and myself dressed in period attire.
Recently, I attended the Armstrong County Historical Museum in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. The event was for a group of junior and senior student to visit the museum to learn local history. My “job” was to talk about the French and Indian War period including the battle in Kit-Han-ne. (Kittanning)
I am dressed above in attire an eighteenth-century militiaman may have been wearing during that time. Slim, on the other hand was dressed in Civil War attire of the northern army of those days…the Union. Slim discussed local Civil War details of men from the Armstrong County lands. He is a living historian representing the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Many of these men came from our area.
Jim Johnson and Donna Weckerly, both local historians, talked on various other interests of history.
The students were very interested in our discussions.
I took a moment to stand beside my father’s World War Two uniform on display at this museum. My father, Allen K. Smail served in the European theater including the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.
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