Animal skins, brains and human spit

Archibald Bulloch DAR celebrates Georgia Day with men portraying 18th-century frontiersmen

Steven Earl Burke, of Garfield, center, and Ruskin Powell exhibit Kentucky rifles while showing how the pioneers in southeast Georgia lived during a presentation at the Archibald Bulloch Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Georgia Day luncheon at First Baptist Church Statesboro's Perry Fellowship Hall Thursday. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

021915 DAR GEORGIA DAY 01 — Steven Earl Burke, of Garfield, center, and Ruskin Powell exhibit Kentucky rifles while showing how the pioneers in southeast Georgia lived during a presentation at the Archibald Bulloch Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Georgia Day luncheon at First Baptist Church Statesboro's Perry Fellowship Hall Thursday. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

This year's Georgia Day luncheon hosted by the Archibald Bulloch Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution had a decidedly rugged feel to it — rugged, as in a tricornered animal skin hat with a red fox tail hanging from the back and animal skin shirts, pants and boots. That was what the guest speakers, Sons of American Revolution members Steven Earl Burke and Ruskin Powell, wore. Burke talked about how the clothing and other artifacts on display during the luncheon were made with assistance from Powell.

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