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I Love Muzzleloading

Instilling a Passion for History in Future Generations | March 2023 Lecture

Ep. 52
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I was asked to give a presentation at the 2023 Kalamazoo Living History Show about the work I’m doing to grow the community and instill a passion for history in future generations.


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All my life I’ve heard that this community is dying, together we can make sure that never happens.

Since I Love Muzzleloading started, I’ve had a lot of great conversations with people inside the muzzleloading/living history community and outside our community. These conversations have and will continue to fuel this kind of study for me because I’m interested in it.


This presentation and the accompanying Q&A session are designed to help you help the community. I want to give you the tools and some ideas to start thinking about so you can act to preserve this history and this culture that we all hold so dear.


The full presentation, outline, and video are listed below. The entirety of the Q&A is available as a separate audio presentation.

As always, this is my opinion and not meant to be a statement on right or wrong, good or bad. This is an ongoing conversation. Please let me know what you think, or how you feel about it anytime by writing or talking to me at an event.




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