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Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat
Google "meetup groups Sedona". For curiosity at least. You'll see a ton of options but not much I'd be interested in doing.
I am a history buff too. It's because of that I've been doing genealogy for the last nearly 30 years. And I have always admired Scarlett O'Hara. lol Read the book three times and seen the movie countless times. If there's a group like that here it would probably be about JUST the area and not particularly history in general. And we do have those here. They just aren't classified as "meetup groups".
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I have been to more living history events since I moved to the southeast, than all of the rest of the years of my life. If anyone is a history buff, then the southeast is for them. I even attended an outdoor church service at a British fort (before we were the United States) with everyone else in costume and in character. I've been to Kentucky for the bicentennial celebration of the Cumberland Gap and I've seen so many Abraham Lincolns at events that you'd think they were Elvis.
I've been to battle re-enactments for the French and Indian War, the Civil War and even one for WWII. I know more about
my county's history in Tennessee (been here 7.5 years) than I did about the places I lived in NY and MD for all of the rest of my life. My county alone has been the site of a well known mining war, contained a gated secret city during WWII where uranium was enriched for the atomic bomb, established a model utopian type town during the building of a dam and is the location of a well known school desegregation controversy in the 1950s.
If you find an education program for retirees, you might find out a lot of local history in class offerings but even if you don't, do searches on "living history" and "battle re-enactment" with your state and you may find a whole calendar of history-related events for which you were unaware.