Our best example may well be our phase 1 efforts to:
Assemble more dedicated and talented people.
Build portable and modular examples of items and structures of historical significance to the daily lives and changes in society that are recreated by the various Living History organizations we work with.
These will allow people new to learning about our history to feel more connected to our past and to see firsthand how we have gotten to our current societal state.
Project 1 is to rehab and expand a site called the Cumberland Center. Site is owned by Randy and James Diamond. Randy has worked with living history groups for over 50 years. He has owned the Center since 1999. In recent years the site has fallen into a state of disrepair as COVID, economic pressures and social upheavals have reduced the numbers of people using their site. As we move towards a revival in interest in living history, we want to add interests in heritage skills and legacy foods. Our first goal is to re-establish Cumberland Center as a space safe for all as we teach, learn and experience the sights, sounds, skills and experiences of yesteryear.
Basic site clean-up, minor repairs of Hall and Village, remove an old trailer have begun. Some of our group of volunteers have been working to do what they can. There are plans to build a portable palisade wall, a trailer based kitchen, pavilions, procure and place trailer based bathrooms with showers near the village onto the existing septic. The green barn will function well as small hall. There are dead trees that need to be cut down and removed in several places on the property as well as around the Circle of Kings with the possible addition of standing more stones up.
All in all, when this project is completed it will be a valuable asset to the medieval recreation world.
