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Strings
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Now, please sit back and enjoy our story............ GREETINGS FROM NORTHWEST OHIO, along the shores of the Great Lake Erie! We met in 1996 and it was a fairy tale dream. We fell in love and started another chapter of our Book of Life together as man and wife on October 3, 1998. What a blessing from above! I have to tell you some background on how
it was that we got engaged & married. Being the male chivalry that he is,
he wanted to proposed in front of everyone at the Officers Ball during the 1997
Hayes Presidential Center reenactment . He had it all planned out, he was
going to take me to the middle of the dance floor, have President Lincoln call
everyone's attention and then he was going to draw his saber and lay it at my
feet. He was then going to kneel and ask me to marry him.
Our wedding day was one to be remembered! We filed cease fire papers with commanders of the Confederate and Union troops and requested them to please lay down their weapons and attend our memorable event. All of our friends, blue and gray attended that evening. I do remember that it was cold and raining, but it didn't matter to us! After the ceremony on the veranda, we exited via the North stair case cascading thru a saber arch with Union troops on one side and Confederate on the other. Our reception line was long, but we were grateful for all who attended and wished us well. We have so many friends and it seemed that all were in attendance that evening. We had a lovely dinner prepared by our friends and we dined on the Veranda that evening. When the officers ball came, we brought our wedding cake for all to enjoy and danced the night away. Like I said, it was a fairy tale and we are still living it! Thus Strings of Glory evolved! Now, a little tidbit
of information about us. I'm Tracie, I
am the owner, designer and creator of my home embroidery business;
Henson Embroidery. I
digitize and create most of my original designs. Some of the design that I
have are ones that I have purchased a license to use, so I am able to sew up
completed embroidered items with those design on it. I also have a
website strictly for the Civil War Reenactors called
Civil War
In 1991, a year after
my daughter, Annie, was born, I had the opportunity to finally play
DeWayne, is a state certified welder by trade, a part-time blacksmith,
and is the Captain (formally 1st Sgt.) of our Civil War Unit called the
21st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery / Parker's Virginia Battery - CSA. He
is one of a few Certified Inspectors for the National Civil War Artillery
Association.
In 1975, he picked up
his first banjo (one that he made from a kit) and started taking lesson from his
best friend at Musicians Alley in Sandusky, Ohio. Coco, his best friend
and teacher, is now teaching DeWayne's daughter Kelly the guitar!
The banjo became a very big part of his life and history. He played
prominently for 10 years.
We like playing the "old time" music. You know, the latest and greatest from the 15th through the 19th Century! There is nothing more soothing than the sound of a dulcimer and autoharp together. When we take our instruments to our reenactments, we play long into the evening. There is plenty of other fellow players that come over and join in too!. That's when it's fun, after the long day is over and the cool night moves in. Playing by candle light and letting the music engulf you! There is nothing finer! We play for bus tours, living histories, family get together, Banquet, School Programs, Christmas Programs, Church Services, background music or just for no reason at all! See our Bookings page to get more information. I think, like my mother always told me, you could write a book about your life and each chapter is a memorable one that has meaning and reasons behind it. For all my chapters and for all of DeWayne's chapters we have put together our Book of Life. We look forward to seeing all of our friends and meeting all the new friends that will come! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What Strings of Glory means to us Lift up your voice through Strings of music to the Glory of the Lord, God almighty! Rejoice for he is with us! Now and forever, even when our strings are old and rusty, there will always be music in our life and in our hearts, and we will be filled with his Glory for the rest of our lives and after!
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received approximately a 45 minute lesson on it and have been playing ever
since. I learned on a 100 year old dulcimer that was a 13/12 and had a
4-course string treble and 2 course string bass. It was made like a
cabinet makers drawer, where the dulcimer was part of the box. There was a
lid for this that shut down over it. After that I did purchase a 12/11
from the bluegrass store on High Street in Columbus, Ohio. After that, all
of the dulcimers that I had were hand made. When DeWayne and I met, he and
his brother made me a dulcimer that I used for many years. It was our own
design, with no sound holes and the sides were all open! This dulcimer had
the most beautiful sound. 
Very deep and rich. I just loved it!
Then DeWayne, being the welder/blacksmith that he is, made me an aluminum
dulcimer. This dulcimer has the most unique sound and resonation. It
has almost the sound of a dobro. I still take this instrument with us once
in a while, when we play for a small audience just to show off just what an
"aluminum" dulcimer sounds like!
In 2003, I purchased a 3/16/18/9 hammered
dulcimer from 
Our group consists of members from the Northwest Ohio area. We do
a lot of living histories, civil war encampments and re-enactments around the
Ohio/Michigan/Indiana area. We also are one of the featured living history
guest units at Gettysburg National Park Service. We are lucky to have an
original 1862 3" Ordinance Rifle from the Village of Carey, Ohio to use at our
disposal to show the general public and history buffs out there what it is
really like to have an Artillery cannon and camp from the Civil War. Our
busiest time is from May to October, where our last re-enactment is near home at
the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center located in
Fremont, Ohio. He
has been re-enacting for well over 32 years! Starting out in the
confederate infantry and then migrating to the big guns - the artillery!
(He says, he has fought that civil war, thousands of times!) DeWayne
graduated from Milan/Edison - Class of 1970, he was involved in FFA, choir and
band where he played percussion. He came from a musical family, his mom
played the piano, his sister played the violin, his one brother played the
accordion and the other brother played the steel guitar, acoustic guitar and
harmonicas. When their family got together, there was music in the air!
He can play the piano, not from reading notes, but just by ear and tablature!
Purchasing a new Alvaraz Left-Handed Banjo in
1978. He put it down in 1987, not to pick it up again until we met
(through a lot of encouraging from me). Since then, after we were married,
we had to take a business trip to Colorado. We went into a music store
there and that is where he purchased his first 15 button autoharp. He
learn how to play that using his "banjo" style of finger picking. But now
instead of 3 finger picking, like on the banjo, he 5-finger picks the autoharp.
His unique style is something to hear! We purchased an Oscar Schmidt
rendition of a 1932, 21 button autoharp which he played on acoustically up until
we purchased his electrified 21 button Oscar Schmidt autoharp with a 4-band
equalizer in it in December 2004. This harp was re-worked by the Harp
Doctor in North Carolina where the chords are laid out better suited for music
that we play. DeWayne also has a guitar and the newest addition to his
musical instruments, a 
