Last week, the Fresno County Historical Society announced that its annual Civil War Revisited event won’t be happening this year due to COVID-19 . However, the Society is planning an event centered around telling more stories of the 19th Century, beyond the Civil War. At its heart, the Fresno County Historical Society says, the Civil War Revisited event has been about connecting students in the San Joaquin Valley to history. Patrick Arena remembers going to the reenactment at Kearney Park at the age of 10 with his school. “I went several times between the age of maybe 10 to 25,” said Arena. “But I mainly went with my dad.” The 34-year-old realtor grew up in Fresno, but now lives in Sacramento. When he first went to the reenactment, it reminded him of a campout. “It smelled like campfire,” Arena remembered. “What I didn’t know at the time was sulfur, and that was from the black powder rifles, actually, that they used in the reenactment.” He remembers his dad interacting with the
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