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Rumble Strip

Leland

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Leland. On death, deep space, and Revolutionary War reenactments.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumble Strip, Vermont.

0:09.0

Reenactments are where you go out to another state or another town and you live for a weekend like at another point in time.

0:21.0

It could be Civil War or Revolutionary War like I do, or it could even be in the future. From my house, if you take a left through the woods, then a right up a dirt road and then another right up another dirt road you come to a really old farmhouse on the left. That's

0:48.0

where Leland lives and where Leland thinks things over. Last week I turned on my recorder and he thought a few things over out loud.

0:57.0

We talked about Vermont, about death, deep space, and revolutionary war reenactments. Here's Leland.

1:05.0

So I do revolutionary war reenactments and we have a cannon and it's really annoying in the night time when I'm trying to

1:19.1

sleep because the Native Americans are always howling out there.

1:25.0

I do it with my grandfather and my dad and my brother.

1:30.0

This summer I'm going to start playing Fyphur re-enacting.

1:35.0

It's an 18th century war flute.

1:40.0

I really like it and it's really fun because I have a lot of extra time on my hands and it's really

1:44.0

fun because I have a lot of extra time on my hands and it's easier to learn about history when you're actually doing the history,

2:01.0

instead of just reading it in a textbook or something.

2:05.0

Sometimes I have a different personality and sometimes I make a different voice up for

2:20.7

reenactments because I'm in the an American regiment,

2:25.0

they'd still have like British accents.

2:28.0

So sometimes I do a slate British accent

2:32.0

and I sometimes act a lot different.

2:40.0

It's something like something like something like something like this or a little older style.

3:00.6

Sometimes I don't do British like right now I just switch to kind of Irish or Scottish

3:08.4

because be as for them to try to win the war. Usually people from other countries would also be mad at

3:18.1

King George III about taxes, so they'd also go over and be on the American side.

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