means a lot to me. nancy s family has a history of military service going back to the revolutionary war. this is one of dozens of firearms in a huge cache of war relics left by nancy s father when he died in 2010. born in 1922 in a small town along new york s hudson river, art, an intense scholarly boy, rose up fantasizing with his friends about military adventures. we have pictures of him in makeshift world war i uniforms. i understand from a friend of my dad s they were called and my dad was always in charge. art s reenacting is encouraged by his mother who buys him odds and ends at garage sales. she had interest in history, and i think that he got some of that from her. here he is all dressed up in