 Hundreds turned out today in Prestonsburg for the beginning of the Middle Creek battlefield weekend. Now today was the education portion of that weekend, with school children being bussed in from around the region to experience authentic 19th century living. Today is like a set up day and education day where we have the schools coming along. I think it's mostly grade schools, but they come along and get a little taste of history, of living history, of what life actually was like. Today is more of the encampment, how that whenever a whole troop of soldiers traveled, they would set up camp each night, and that's what they're showing camp life today. What it was like, they didn't spend all their time shooting and fighting, there was a lot of traveling, there was a lot of moving from place to place, they had little light chairs like the one over here that kind of breaks down into two pieces. They could throw that on their horse or on their wagon and haul that from place to place, they could haul their kitchens around, they had to move everything that they would support. A whole bunch of fellas was ready to fight and they had to support the troops all from place to place. And today's all about that, it's about camp life. Re-enactors from around the country come to events such as these, they say that re-enactment, once you get started, stuff to give up. A good friend of mine looks a lot like him when he was older. He had asked me because we had talked to it over several times and finally there was an opening where we could find a place to portray, you know, do the Confederate Army soldier impression. And I was like, I'm all in for this, you know, I want to try it. And I have to warn anybody to get involved. Once you do it, it's hard to walk away from very hard. I'm near about 20 years and I love it. The only regret I got is I don't have another 20 years behind that to have 40 years of memory. Besides that, it's all, you know, the bull and everything's a little testy, but it's worth every bit of it. Events at the Middle Creek battlefield will be going on all weekend with battles scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. Reporting for Prestonsburg, for EKB News, I'm Jackson Ladder.