In August 2010 I was asked by Milkcow magazine to review the 28th annual War & Peace Show, a 5 day-long Military vehicle and re-enactment event which takes place at The Hop Farm in Kent. The piece was written to accompany my photographs of the event.
For what would turn out to be the penultimate issue of In Retrospect I decided I would reflect a little
When Union nurse Beatrice McDonald is rescued after a brutal assault near Fort Stedman, she finds herself tending to the dying in the last days of the Siege of Petersburg. Among them is a boy soldier who asks for stories from before the war — and Beatrice obliges, recounting a past shaped by two West Point brothers, Dante and Virgil Spears. Once inseparable, the brothers are now mortal enemies, torn apart by love, secrets, and war. One lies wounded in a Confederate hospital, the other forgotten in the hell of Andersonville prison. As the war barrels toward its bloody encounter at the Battle of the Crater, all three are swept into a reckoning not just with the war, but with themselves.
For my In Retrospect Issue 07 lead article I contemplate the social classes of the original owners of vintage clothing
