The South will rise again, just not in Kimmswick.

An article in today's Post Dispatch caught my interest:

Guns of Civil War fall silent in Kimmswick.

Apparently Kimmswick, a small touristy town about 20 miles south of St. Louis, had an annual Civil War reenactment, which has been canceled due to poor organization and low attendance.

The thing that struck me about all this was a quote at the end of the article by Hank Goehring, the founder of the event:

"The thing I liked most about our event is that it wasn't structured," he said. "We had re-enactors going into stores and harassing the storekeepers; we had them stopping cars and searching for alcohol. . ."

Hmm, I wonder what made the locals want to end it?