As I walk across the grounds of the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas, during the annual Freedom Festival, I am surrounded by re-enactors. By grab, I just talked to Theodore Roosevelt and John Brown, and I’m waiting for a slew of folks in period attire to start the 1856 Battle of Osawatomie all over again. Then I’m invited inside Jack Pruett’s tent. Pruett—alias Boilerplate Jackson—is a re-enactor too, but not like any I’ve come across. You won’t find him armed with an 18
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