personal - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Come Dancing

Posted on January 24, 2019 by kittycalash

There haven’t been as many chances to dance as I’d like of late, so when I got the Museum of the American Revolution’s invitation to come danc...

Events/Fail/Living History/personal

Night Clubbing

Posted on February 16, 2018 by kittycalash

Mountebanks and miscreants: how we love them. I have found myself in a situation of late that feels altogether too much like high school, and as a means of unde...

Art Rant/Collecting/personal

The Stuff of Life

Posted on November 7, 2017 by kittycalash

We all love things, don’t we? Things in the literal, corporeal, piled-in-a-heap sense: plates, shoes, books, chairs, necklaces, models. But what makes us love t...

Living History/personal/Philosophy/Reenacting

Clear and Present Danger

Posted on October 24, 2017 by kittycalash

Scandal and outrage rock the reenacting world as reading comprehension lags and The Gentle Author is accused of presentism– or, at least, that’s the...