November 5, 2011 was Steampunk Day, held at Old Cowtown Living History Museum in Wichita, Kansas. This event is always quite interesting, as it combines Victorian style with Jules Verne-type gadgetry. This year they many interesting exhibits, including an anti-airship machine (blank) gun demonstration, and my favorite- penny-farthing races. The anti-airship machine gun demonstration…
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Historical Events
The stories behind the guns: the battles, the men and the moments that made a particular model famous. Some of these articles are about the American frontier, some about the world wars, and a few are about the strange corners of history that a replica can illustrate better than a paragraph of text.
These pieces are written to be read on their own, but they work best as background for a display. Knowing that a gun was carried at a particular battle changes how you arrange the shelf around it, and it gives a visitor something to read besides the label.