Borrow a Brown Bess for a day?

Started by DryFire, November 21, 2009, 11:13:31 PM

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DryFire

November 21, 2009, 11:13:31 PM
All,
This December 16th and 17th I will be presenting the history for a 58 7th graders and have received permission from the prinicpal and teacher to bring in a musket with bayonet. My problem lies in the fact that I am without both a musket and a bayonet for said musket. In speaking to the teacher she states that the children are "clueless" about what arms of that day, and what a bayonet is. If I could provided for these kids a visual of the musket and espeically the bayonet that our forefathers faced I think it would go a long way in driving home the point of their sacrafice for us. So I come to my fellow buckeyes asking a favor. Does anyone in the Cincinnati area have or know of someone who has a Brown Bess that they would be willing to lend me for the date of the 16th of December? Any help would be appreciated.

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DryFire
"I believe there is great need for such a book, a book which will help to make us again what we were a century ago before commercialism and life in cities robbed our young men of most of their primitive virtues -- a Nation of Rifleman.
Maj. Townsend Whelen
The American Rifle
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