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Americans a strange breed

A visit to Baltimore

I don't think I'll ever understand Americans! Imagine this: It's a Sunday in Baltimore, wind screaming around corners and_ the temperature hovering just above freezing.

Fort Henry sits on a chunk of land jutting into the Baltimore harbor. This is the famous fort where, during the height of a battle with the British, Francis Scott Keys wrote the ‘Star Spangled Banner”. Keys was out on a British ship trying to negotiate the release of a friend while the battle proceeded.

So, we went to visit Fort Henry. There, several hundred men and women were camped — not in modern facilities such as Winnebagos — but in Civil War replicas! They were sleeping on straw with a couple of thin blankets under primitive little “A- frames” of canvas — open at both ends to allow the wind to whistle through.

They were wearing authentic Civil War garb — skinny navy blue jackets, fuzzy powder-blue pants, caps and armament. The ladies were decked out in “camp follower” garb of long dresses and blue cloaks.

Through the fort, groups of “guards” recreated typical scenes from Civil War days such as punishments: The “Drunkard” forced to stand

on a_ barrel around his neck. The “Malcontent” tied to a cannon, shouting oaths such as, “Your mother mixes her corncakes with her feet!” They do this for fun! Chapters of Civil War en-

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thusiasts exist up and down the East coast and some come as far as Michigan to indulge in this sentimental masochism. Every weekend, at some historic site, groups of people involve themselves in their version of American History _ despite gawdawful conditions. They

have a whale of a time. Maybe that’s why Canadians aren't quite as nationalistic as Americans. | can't see myself decked out in Revolutionary War garb, spending the night freezing to death on the Plains of

Abraham. Or in Stanley Park, cooking beans over a campfire. I'll never understand Amenicans!

Baltimore is just = as wrecked as Philadelphia but they are handling the problem a lot better. Just before I left home, I read an article in “Women's Day” magazine on a unique ap- proach to urban renewal in Baltimore. The civic government SELLS the wreckage that was once a town house to a family for ONE DOLLAR, including land. They are obligated to restore the place and live in it with the aid of lower- interest loans, group hiring of technicians and self-help. Naturally, some fairly strict regulations for design are part of the package.

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