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TOP  STORY                                          Reenactment community mourns passing of longtime friend
BY MIKKI C. BENNETT, Special to the Companion

In the world of reenacting, everyone is use to playing dead. But when a death occurs in the reenactment community, it is a hard bite to swallow.

In early February, one such bite was served. Jim Lammers, owner of Cedar Creek Supply Depot, died of a massive heart attack Tuesday, Feb. 5.

The news of the loss spread quickly, as soldiers and sutlers learned of the loss.

"I got the news around 2 a.m.," said Jerry Parsons, commanding officer of the 37th Virginia, Co. E. "I was just in shock."

Friends of the Lammers family stayed with Jim’s   <<Full Story >>        


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