Yesterday was the much publicized Civil War event at the York Emporium on West Market Street in York. Reenactors, authors, living historians, and history buffs mingled at this 19,000-square-foot used book store. Attendance was a little light, perhaps due in part to a conflict with a parade downtown, but everyone seemed to have a good time. One of the highlights was watching a small group of unsupecting guys across the street casually walking westward.They apparently were unknowing (or uncaring) about the little slice of history going on in the store's parking lot, where a group of Union reenactors were going through firing drills. When the command for "volley fire" rang out and the sound of muskets discharging echoed off the brick buildings, one of the carefree teenagers jumped a full foot in the air! It was classic!
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