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Bringing the People of Our Past Into the Present

Portrayals          Living History Events

"Bleeding Kansas"  and  The Civil War




Historic Interest Sites


Lecompton Kansas

Constitution Hall State Historical Site
Lecompton KS

Shawnee Indian Mission School Historical Site Fairway KS

Ft Scott National Historical Site
Ft Scott KS


The John Wornall House Kansas City MO

The Harris Kearney House Kansas City MO

Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka KS


Arabia Steamboat Museum
Kansas City MO


Living History Presenters & Reenactors


The Lecompton Reenactors
LR Newsletter November 2008

7th Missouri Medical

8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry

Michelle Martin-Discovering History LLC

Historic Preservation and Education

Civil War Preservation Trust

George and Diane Bernheimer have been involved in Civil War reenacting and living history presentations since 1995 and in Territorial Kansas living history presentations since 2004. Their Civil War portrayals include George Templeton Strong, New York lawyer and Treasurer of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, Mrs Catherine Dix, wife of General James A Dix, of the Women's Central Association of Relief, and Field Relief volunteers with the US Sanitary Commission. Their Territorial Kansas portrayals include The Reverend Thomas Johnson, founder of the Shawnee Indian Mission School and his wife Sarah and emigrants with the New England Emigrant Aid Society arriving in Kansas Territory with the spring party of 1855. They are members of the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Civil War), Lecompton Reenactors (Territorial Kansas), National Park Service Volunteers In Parks program and are listed with the Civil War Preservation Trust as Classroom Visitors. Their "first person" portrayals of the people of our history are presented individually and with larger groups to schools, civic groups, church groups, historical interest groups, and as part of living history programs at historical sites and other living history venues.

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