Welcome to Reenacting Schedule

parsonjohn March 25, 2022 No Comments
Welcome to The Reenacting Schedule Website Our team here at Reenacting Schedule and Parson John Living History, Inc. look forward to serving the Reenacting/Historical community by providing this Schedule and…
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Francis Marion

Timothy Mann September 27, 2024 No Comments
Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, South Carolina c. 1732. At the age of 15, Francis hired on a merchant ship bound for the West Indies.  The ship sank on…
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Andrew Pickens

Timothy Mann September 23, 2024 No Comments
Andrew Pickens (1739 –1817) was born in 1739 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  His family traveled to the Shenandoah Valley where they stayed a short time.  Then the family permanently located to…
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“Brother Jonathan”

Timothy Mann September 18, 2024 No Comments
Before Uncle Sam became a national symbol, we had Brother Jonathan. Brother Jonathan started out as a personification of New England. He was also used as an emblem of the…
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The Formation of Ohio

Timothy Mann September 15, 2024 No Comments
I am sharing a few early maps of Ohio and a little history about the formation of Ohio’s Counties.  A few years after the “Northwest Territory was established, counties such…
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A Lingering Injury

Timothy Mann September 11, 2024 No Comments
I found another unusual hunting story among the reminiscences of Joseph Coe.   Coe and his family were early settlers in northwest Ohio.  The story was published 1837 & 1868 in…
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Margaret Corbin

Timothy Mann September 8, 2024 No Comments
Oh those patriotic women…. Margaret Cochran Corbin was the first woman to receive a military pension. She was born in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania in 1751. In 1756,…
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Premature Burial

Timothy Mann September 4, 2024 No Comments
A common concern many people have had for centuries  is being buried alive.  One method of ensuring someone had died before burial is waiting until the body started decaying.  Washington…
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‘Tell me and I forget.

Teach me and I remember.

Involve me and I learn.’


– Benjamin Franklin