April 17, 2005
Added a link to "Those Who Have Gone Before" , a photo of a "De Soto Christmas" reenactment c. 1967.  Looks pretty good too, not the usual De Soto Historical Society farb stuff.  Its not listed but it looks like it was done at Lake Jackson Mounds just north of Tallahassee.  Which was considered a like site for the Winter Camp before Cavin Jones' discovery of  its actual location behind the Motel 6 in downtown Tallahassee 20 years later.

March 18, 2005
Calendar Update.

January 3, 2005
Calendar Update for 2005 with the usual dearth of information at the beginning of the year.  New Year's resolution, post to Entrada on a more regular basis.

November 26, 2004

In case any of the cast or other interested parties missed it, and thanks to Tony Horwitz who mailed me a copy; I've scanned & posted the photo article "History Channel Hits the Beach" here:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/calderon/ftu111704.html

Featuring some triumphant Spaniards about to step over my lifeless body.  This episode of "Conquest of America." is scheduled to air March 28, 2005 on the History Channel.
see also:
http://www.staugustine.com/stories/111804/new_2711857.shtml

October 24, 2004
Additional Calendar Updates late 2004 & 2005 losts of postponed events from Sept. rescheduled.

August 10, 2004
Calendar Updates late 2004 & 2005

June 1, 2004
Drake's Raid update in the Calendar.

May 21, 2004
More Calendar updates.  Posting to the Entrada blog on a regular basis.

April 18, 2004

More Calendar updates.  Posting to the Entrada blog on a regular basis.

Feb. 1, 2004

More Calendar updates. Family visiting the Nina replica in Bradenton.

Jan. 25, 2004

Restarted Entrada as a blog.

Jan. 8, 2004

Sept. 25, 2003

Back from a vacation tour of  living history sites in New England.  Went to Plimoth Plantation, Old Strubridge Village, and Mystic Seaport.  All highly recomended.

Katie atop one of the cannon at the Plimoth Blockhouse.   Compare.

Also updated the Events Calendar with dates for the De Soto Winter Encampment and events at De Soto National Memorial.

August 30, 2003

July 27, 2003

Updated the link to Prince Rupert's Blewcoates & Drake's Men on the Of Like Mind Page.

July 23, 2003

More Calendar updates.  BTW the whole family made it into the local paper at the landing reenactment in May:

July 13, 2003

Calendar updates, there have been some other undocumented calendar updates too since April that I've neglected  to mention in the interest of time : see below

April 19, 2003
 

Its amazing how an infant can kill any available free time.  Two months since I've done any updates. I got a request for the food pages so I did a quick and dirty transfer of the old pages wisth no correcting of links.  Also the latest info on the next Drake's Raid came in so the calendar has been updated.  Dad and Katie made the local paper at the De Soto Anniversary event.

February 18, 2003

Menendez Birthday rain/or shine update.

February 13, 2003

In Print: So they're a little obsessed with history.  A bit of a cut & paste job, but still its nice to be mentioned at all.
Menendez Birthday reenactor update.

January 26, 2003

Uploaded  with minor changes, Yes, I am a Moviestar.  I'd never thought it was going to take me a year to get the site all back up and running.

January 21, 2003

Still more calendar updates as additional  2003 get sent in.  Updated & reposted the Of Like Mind Page.
It's tempting but I think that I'll hold out for Spanish Colonial House.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/

Reposted with some minor updates the De Soto Winter Encampment page.  The Photo gallery link is still dead though.

January 18, 2003

Minor calendar updates as  2003 events get confirmed.

January 14, 2003

Reposted with some minor updates the De Soto National Memorial Page.

January 11, 2003

Sometime while I was gone over Christmas vacation the hit counter rolled passed 10,000.  I'm quite amazed that theer's that much interest in this site.  I'd better get cracking on updates!  Posted the latest in calendar updates for 2003 based on the latest HFM newsletter.  Speaking of which Historic Florida Militia  ( HFM) again has a site of its own, currently under construction.

Nov. 19, 2002

Not getting a lot done, -here's why:

on the otherhand  she did take to her first reenactment quite well:

Oct. 27, 2002

Changed Worlds in Collision to Collision of Worlds along with updating info on this Museum Exhibit.

Oct. 19, 2002

Calendar updates based on the latest HFM newsletter.

Uploaded Eric Thing's Yuma Crossing Day report with some minor updating.

Oct. 12, 2002

Uploaded the Clothing page with some minor revisons.

Oct. 3, 2002

 

Meanwhile back in Cuba.... Calderon's Company welcomes its latest recruit to the ranks of its distaff. Though I suspect that this Captain is going to get a request in a few years from her to join the ranks of the cavalry with, "I want a pony."

Daddy's little conquistadora .

Added Row, row, row your boat.

Sept. 15, 2002

Numerous  calendrical  updates

July 10, 2002

Updated and uploaded Drake's Raid.

July 9, 2002

Reposted the Illustrated Drake's Raid.  Added the School of the Sixteenth Century Soldier to the Events Calendar.

Added the latest info on the De Soto Landing Anniversary event.

May 5, 2002

Added the latest info on Drake's Raid.  The street battle is back!!!!

April 7, 2002

March was rather busy with events, so I haven't been as diligent as I should be in updating the web page.  Calderon's Company now has a boat.  Click here to see a couple of photos from the Christening.  We also survived the mile long row from De Soto National to Sneads Island.  I'm working on a photo page of that epic adventure.  In the meantime for your entertainment:
 

A VR of Calderon's Company in Camp (Need a Quicktime viewer.)

Breakfast Americana A documerical featuring Larry May and airing for the next five weeks.

• http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/3001176.htm
• http://www.newscoast.com/frontpage/story.cfm?ID=65102

March 3, 2002

Continuing the pretty much random file updating/uploading. Today's files are:  Clerics and Metalworkers.

March 2, 2002

Continued updating the events calendar.  Uploaded the annoying Conquistador MIDI file at the bottom of this page.  Updated and uploaded Biographies.

March 1, 2002

The hitcounter was at 8041 when the old members.home.net/calderon site died.  I've installed a new hitcounter on the index page.
Updated Those Who Have Gone Before with an added  link to a photo Gallery: De Soto Landing Reenactment c.1963, back when there was a beach at De Soto National Memorial.  I've updated the Events Calendar with upcomming events, but it still needs some work.

February 28, 2002

Updated and uploaded Bob Munson's Espejo Journal.

February 27, 2002

Updated and uploaded the History page and the Coronado Muster List.

February 26, 2002

Uploaded the Wardog page, with some updates & added some Aztec acounts too.

February 25, 2002

Went to upload the October issue of Entrada just before going on vacation and found that much to my dismay that couldn't upload anything.  After returning from Spain I discover that my ISP  (@home) was going bankrupt.  Attempts to upload anything during the time of transition between @home and Comcast.net proved to day the least unreliable.  Also during this time the Xoom/NBCI pages disappeared as they decided webspace free forever was not a wise business model and netscape likewise dropped their  original free pages as well.  So I'm in the process of rebuilding the site, trying to fix and update  some of my early attempts at html as well as fixing the resulting broken links as servers are switched.

Quick and dirty I've put up the Index page, What's New, the Events Calendar.  Also I've tabelized and generally cleaned up the Astolabe page.

Please bear with me during this transition.

September 4, 2001

Uploaded the September issue of Entrada.

August 11, 2001

Updated the calendar with information, thanks to Richard Lanni on some upcoming HFM/MOM events.  Not much other than the dates right now - more as it becomes available.  Uploaded the August issue of Entrada. A couple of minor updates to the index page.

July 15, 2001

Added info on the 2002 Menendez birthday Festival in St. Augustine to the events calendar.

June 30, 2001

Egad!  While posting the July issue of  Entrada I realized that I hadn't gotten around to uploading the June issue that I finished just before leaving for Drake's Raid last month.

June 26, 2001

Added music CD's to Sheila's Loot & Plunder page, along with some minor clean up and decoration..

June 17, 2001

Added Re-enactment will be a blast, in spite of some out of context quotes, and De Soto De Soto anniversary to the newsclippings section.  While I was at Drake's Raid in St. Augustine I talked myself into putting up a website for the Historic Florida Militia  (Hello Echelon).  Its a plain vanilla contact page, although I hope it can be expanded  a bit with articles and such.  Updated the Events Calendar with an end of the month event at FOCA.

May 29, 2001

Added the latest info from John Ryder on the plans  for this year's Drake's Raid.

Added The Outfiting of Menéndez's Troops.  While I was at it I tableized the Helmet section and made some minor cleanup/ changes to the Arms and Armor page.

Minor calendar additions and updates to the links page.

May 16, 2001

Added  a link to a news story on the upcoming Drake's Raid event info section.  Part 2 of the Conquistadors on PBS tonight!

May 14, 2001

Posted the latest info from John Ryder on this year's Drake's Raid. Added "Point in Time" to the Calendar.

Added a correction comment on the Bible from Dave Hillard in the FAQ.  Added Super Conquistador to the Humor page. Posted a mid-month issue of Entrada.

Added more information from Denise Spear on the History Timeline at the NPS' Fort Frederica.

Added a link to a Conquistador series preview in the May issue of Entrada.

May 4, 2001

Updated the Events Calendar.  Posted the May issue of the Entrada Newsletter.

April 11, 2001

Added a recently released announcement of a De Soto related lecture to the April newsletter.

April 1, 2001

Added quite a bit to the Conquistador Commeration and Newsclippings page.  First a couple of extremely non-PC photos from a De Soto landing reenactment c.1984.  Also, its been a busy couple of months reenactment-wise and I've added newsclippings from the Menendez Birthday Celebration in St. Augustine and one from the Sneads Island Timeline. Can you tell that its been raining a lot lately?  Also, sometime on April 1 the Calderon's Company index page passed 5000 hits, no one knocking on the door yet offering big bucks to sell out.

Added the latest addition to the newsletters.  I've finally come up with a name too!  It's Entrada A web-based newsletter for Conquistador Era Living History.  Added the Coronado Equipment List 1540 (arms & armor).  Added a couple of outside links to photos of surviving period tents and some general tweaking to the tent page.

March 12, 2001

Added a scan of Hernando de Soto in Alabama brochure to the Xoom (now nbci) server.

March 9, 2001

Added the, well-first part at least, of Alabama's De Soto Trail. Added a bit on the Training of Menendez's Soldiers to the matchlock page. Put up the latest newsletter page.

I've added a new on going feature Newsletter (not the most inspired title I know); a place for short event reports, news items, intersting links etc.  I'm also in the process of updating a long neglected index page of the website.

February 18, 2001

The Calenderical coordination continues.  Updates on De Soto Discovery Days at DNM, the Menendez Landing, and a 2003 event in Arkansas.

January 28, 2001

Added the Symposium for the Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial Period  (1492 - 1820) to the events calendar.  Bob Munson will be making a presentation there along with other notables such as Richard and Shirley Flint who edited the 1997 book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest.

January 27, 2001

Updated the Sheila's Loot and Plunder section.

Its been an even longer time since I updated the site, although having the the motherboard on my old computer die, has played no small part in the delay (About 2gigs archived on 1.2 floppies worth of uploading - which is why my new computer has a CDR) simply not getting around to it has played no small part.  The Events Calendar has been updated for the year 2001.  Fixed a couple of bad links on the Insults page, thanks to Hyperhero for the heads up.  I'm working on some more revsions this weekend, either that or taking the Christmas lights down.

October 14, 2000

Longtime since I've been back here, I've been busy getting ready for De Soto 2000, actually going to De Soto 2000 and  of course putting together a De Soto 2000 photogallery. Added some minor stuff to the Matchlock page.  On my way back from Arkansas I attended the Ft. Caroline 50th Anniversary.  I've also started work on a De Soto Trail series based on my Arkansas Adventure.  Added Clerics of the De Soto Expedition based on research that I did for the De Soto 2000 event.

August 5, 2000

Added a scan of an old (before it was a state park) Florida's DeSoto Site brochure.

August 4, 2000

Added  another  Ruta Quetzal scan to newsclippings.

Calendar updates for Ft. Caroline, and the Goethe State Forst Timeline.

July 29, 2000

Added  Photo Gallery 5, this one on the visit of Ruta Quetzal to De Soto National Memorial.
Added the Ruta Quetzal scans to newsclippings.

July 22, 2000

Added some post event Ruta Quetzal-Argentaria links to the De Soto National Memorial Page and the events calendar.

July 16, 2000

Cleaned up the De Soto National Memorial Page and added a new link to a recent Bradenton Herald article.

July 8, 2000

Calendar update (international student event).  Added links to photos on the HOTAO wwebsite from the School of the 16th Century website.   The usual updates and additions to the Calderonlinks page; in particular  Enrique Menéndez's "Two cities one history.  The Menendez Site" - en Español.

June 1, 2000

Updated the events calendar page with brief info on an international student event at De Soto National Memorial and the Florida Park Service's annual "Point in Time."

May 27, 2000

Added the latest updates on the Drake's Raid event.

Added the latest updates on the Drake's Raid event.

May 8, 2000

Added the latest in Drake's Raid event information to the Events Calendar page.

May 7, 2000

Minor updates to the De Soto National Memorial page and the Links Page.

May 6, 2000

I've just supplemented my orginal Drake's Raid site with some detailed period illustrations and my commentary at The Illustrated Drake's Raid.

April 27, 2000

My thanks to Lisa Larsen, (check out her site: Myths and Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean) who spotted and informed me via her " Wizard no, Typo possibly" email of a problem in the Bio section.

Narvaez pp.4 line 5: "and the evident superiority of it [to] Cortés', impressed the Totonacs."

I went ahead and fixed that passage as well as fixing the superscript footnotes and the concluding paragraph in the Narvaez biography.

April 17, 2000

Added  Earth Day at Washington Oaks State Park to the Events Calendar.

April 16, 2000

My thanks to Tom Stephan  who, " Found a spelling boo-boo from Juan in twenty4three.." in the Reflections on Drake's Raid '96 page, which has now been corrected.

April 15, 2000

Updated Metal Workers of the De Soto Expedition with a couple of additional passages that I inadvertently left off the original page.  Also, I noticed that I had added the FAQ link to the index homepage when I published the link to the new Metal Workers page.  So I've gone ahead and added the FAQ as yet another still under construction page.  When will I learn?  But if I wait til all is ready I'll never get anything up.

April 14, 2000

Drake's Raid update on the Events Calendar.

April 11, 2000

Added Metal Workers of the De Soto Expedition.

April 4, 2000

Updated the Calderonlinks page.

April 1, 2000

Events Calendar  updates. About.com/Mining Company has discovered Spanish Colonial Reenactment. Including a link to Calderon's Company!

March 26, 2000

Events Calendar  updates.

March 7, 2000

Events Calendar  updates.  Added "Turning Points in History" and  "Event teaches about de Soto's legacy" to the newsclipping section.

Fixed the bad links in the Feb. 13 update below. (Thanks Frank!)  Added The Reenactors Glossary to the Humor  Page.  Added Some Additional Conquistadora Info to the History Page. I'm working on a FAQ  both reenactor & general public suggestions questions are welcome.

February 13, 2000

Adding pages, but not yet complete, to the Cabrillo Landing. Added some, stuff on 16th C. Spanish Saddles & Tack.

I've revised the e-mail contact address for Drake's Men (daviswalker@hotmail.com).  I've added yet another free web-space photo gallery.  This one's on Anglefire ( http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/calderonsco/index.html#photo).  So far its got pictures from the recent School of the 16th C. and a still under construction series from Cabrillo last October.

January 23, 2000

Finally, I got around to putting up,  well-the first part at least, of the photo gallery.  I'm not totally satisified as yet, but I fingured I might as well put up what I've got.  These are scanned photographs that look great in the phot scanning software, but appear dark and muddy when viewed in the Netscape browser.  I've tried to compensate for that by increasing the brightness to over exposure levels, which helps somewhat, but its still not there yet.  Maybe next Christmas I'll get that digital camera.

Maintenance items:  Removed some extraneous bullet points from Matchlocks that I found when I linked to it.  I fixed the counter.  Somehow, saving the index page in Composer screwed up the cgi file.  So I had to restart the counter at 1235+-, which is where I last remembered seeing it at.

January 22, 2000

Eliminated the repeated, "Juan Coles adds at this point that Juan Ortiz, being unable to speak in Spanish, made the sign of the cross with his hand and the bow so that the Spaniard might see that he was a Christian." on the Ortiz page.  Added more photos to the Winter Encampment photo gallery.

January 20, 2000

Received a message stating, " ...note a gross error in http://members.home.net/calderon/DNM.htm..." Changed  it...to Track of the Wolf, I'll let you figure out what what it did say.  Also I've gotten another 5 megs of webspace and have started putting up the long awaited photo gallery.

January 13, 2000

Found  and added the Internet Conquistador photo at the bottom of this page.  I still haven't been able to get any background music to run as yet though.

Added Christmas in De Soto's Florida by Sheila Benjamin.

Extensively updated the Events Calendar page.  Some of the event details are not all that I would like, but I can only put down what I'm given, and/or searchout on the net.  Still working on the Cabrillo stuff.

December 18, 1999

I should be out Christmas shopping,  but instead I've added newsclippings from Geitner Simmons' series of articles on the Juan Pardo Expedition in the Salisbury Post.

December 13, 1999

Fixed the bad Events Calendar links on this page.  Thanks Frank for the heads up. Added, "Re-enactors bring out the past ," to the Newsclippings on Xoom.  And although I can't  find the picture that goes with it , I'm playing with a MIDI file link on the bottom of this page.  You've been warned!

Added  Oñate Muster - Tents 1598 to the tent page.  Still working on the visit to Cabrillo stuff.   : (

Updated the Events Calendar.  My visit to Cabrillo comming soon!

Added photographic links to the Men of Menendez section of the "Of Like Mind" page.  Added a photo link of enslaved Indians to the bottom of the De Soto in America opening page.

September 12, 1999

Added DETERMINATION OF LATITUDE BY FRANCIS DRAKE ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA IN 1579 as a link to the astrolabe page.

September 5, 1999

Updated the Links Page.  Added, "Suspicious looking lump is hardtack" to the Newsclippings on Xoom.

August 31, 1999

Updated the links page, in particular the addition of a series of newspaper articles by Geitner Simmons on the Juan Pardo expedition.  Updates to theEvents Calendar.

I finally got around to adding the badly needed illustations to the clothing page. Added the breeches, some links and generally cleaned it it up.

Added Newsclippings to the XOOM photo gallery.  These are just scanned copies of old newspaper articles involving Calderon's Company.  Some are quite large and may take a while to download if you have a slow connection.

August 2, 1999

Added some more stuff to the Drake's Raid page. Drakes Raid 1999, Things to Yell, and I was a 16th C. Reenactor's Widow.
Added Yes I Am a Movie Star
Updated the Links Page
Also visit the updated MVEP De Soto 2000 event page.

Added Hernando de Soto: Conquistador . This file is graphically intense so I using yet another server (XOOM) in this case. Thanks to Kent Goff for this addition to the "Those Who Have Gone Before Files."

Updated the Links Page

I've got the first part of the photo gallery up and running. This is on the Netscape server ranther than @home's. But hey they give me a free 11 meg for the page, so I've got room at last. I can put up with their head line at the top. The Calderon's Company homepage on the Netscape server is here. The first set of photos, from the De Soto in America filming, are indexed here.

Added Wardogs & Narvaéz event

Finally got around to adding the Events Calendar.

Added Seinfeld dialog.

extensive additions /corrections to the Links Page

added Eric Thing's Yuma Crossing Event Report

added John Ryder's Drake's Raid Reflections
New computer (AMD 333 up from a Pentium 90) lets see if the FTP works now.

Virgin site. (Well there's been some heavy petting going on as I've learned how to upload files & make revisions) Pretty much plain text in readable black on white, a few graphics, no animated flames or roatating 3D objects.  I've got about two years worth of news letter articles more-or-less cut & pasted on to this site., with another year to go.  A number of the articles are going to require some scanning and manipulation to get the images right.   So the photo gallery is on hold.  Like wise the breech loading cannon drill remains incomplete.  Its not quite the coherent site that I had envisioned, but then again at least the information is there. Its probably going to take another month to tweak the basics and then I can start revising the pages into a more sucessful whole.  Consider it a work in progress.  I may get around to the "Calderon's Company Manual" after all.

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