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Friday, July 6, 2018

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"I invite you to please join me as I take you with me back to school in a possibly impossible attempt to become a real renaissance man. Not Davinci or a Michelangelo, but 'Bill, the man who fixes the roof when it rains' circa 1560. Because I think we forget that the renaissance wasn't just artists and soldiers and kings and popes, but a groundswell of normal, ordinary people advancing their lot generation by generation, building themselves up through the sweat of their own brows and the callouses of their own hands and, for better or worse, creating the modern world."

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Scott W. Perkins is a writer from Washington State. He is best known in the reenactment community for his "Garb for Guys" costuming blog. In his so-called real life, he runs a writing & tutoring center for a local college and is a graphic designer. His first novel "Howard Carter Saves the World" comes out April 14th. Click the picture above to learn more.

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