For those of you who missed last weekend’s Civil War History Consortium parade (luckily, it did not actually rain during the parade, although it was quite windy), here is a slideshow of photos from the event. The first image is of Robert Hicks, the director of the Mütter Museum, decked out in his surgeon’s uniform–here’s to the museum contingent!
No Rosenbachers are depicted in the slideshow, but in the Youtube video below you can see me–Kathy Haas, the Rosenbach’s esteemed Assistant Curator–about 20 seconds in. I’m wearing a black and white plaid dress and carrying a basket, which I used to hold my super-sized stash of CWHC and Rosenbach handouts.
Luckily in this video my dress is actually behaving–I stupidly wore a very lightweight dress and it kept blowing around and getting tangled in the hoopskirt, which I had recently lengthened. I think some hoopskirt modification may be in order before the next event…
You might also be interested in Mayor Nutter’s remarks, which were a nice recap of the reasons why Philadelphia in particular should commemorate the Civil War. A big thank you to blogger Scott Manning, who kindly posted a transcript.
CivilWarPhilly still has 100-plus photos to go, including your Assistant Curator in a hoop skirt (I'm pretty sure).