Gifts for the Young Revanchist
By April not only marks Confederate Heritage Month, but it also contains the birthday of my daughter, who had the misfortune of being cast into the world on Confederate Memorial Day. Of late, debate within the household has concerned the issue of her second birthday party and whether a Sesame Street theme would be more or less preferable to a Winnie the Pooh theme.
Fortunately, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have supplied a third alternative that would include an array of activity books and inspiring tales from the Old South.
Among the classier gifts, we find these two winners:
On the publisher’s website, the plantation model carries the following description:
Detailed instructions, exploded diagrams and a few inexpensive tools help papercrafters construct paper model of early 19th-century Southern plantation. Includes spectacular Greek Revival-styled main house with portico, colonnades connecting house and two wings, carriage house, garconniere, privy, slave cabin, fence.
There’s no word, sadly, on the release date for the scale model of Sherman’s March, but I’m pretty confident we can come up with a homemade workaround.