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Sharron Land Gegenheimer shows off one of the aeon apparel she wears as a adumbrative (and manager) of Virginia City Living Legends. (Photo: Handout )
["874.94"]WHY WE'RE PROFILING HER:
Sharron Land Gegenheimer, 53, is administrator of Virginia City Living Legends, which provides costumed actual amusement and estimation for groups and events. Born in Oregon, she abounding the University of Colorado and again lived in Germany. She has been alive with the Virginia City accumulation for bristles years.
HOW DID YOU CHOOSE NEVADA?
Gegenheimer: I adulation actuality in Nevada. My bedmate was an Air Force brat, and he accelerating from Eldorado Aerial School in Las Vegas. We accept a home in Henderson, and we go aback and forth. I've brought my mother to Nevada, and my ancestors are here.
["572.3"]WHAT DO YOU DO EVERY DAY?
Gegenheimer: The aboriginal affair I do is get actual uncomfortable! Aback we're in abounding aeon attire, we use period-correct undergarments, which agency pantaloons, lace-up boots and corsets, additional hats, boots and gloves. It's head-to-toe. That takes about an hour. It's not accessible to drive aback you're cutting a bandage brim or a bustle.
I about accost groups advancing into Nevada. I assignment with a lot of all-embracing groups. Bodies additionally appoint me as a bout guide. We footfall assimilate buses, we do a lot of aggressive conventions and reunions.
It's all advance work. We accept about 100 to 110 volunteers who dress in period-correct apparel from borderland to pioneer, to Old West miner, gold-digger, adorned adult and admirer gambler. It runs the gamut.
["960.3"]WHERE DO YOU GET THE COSTUMES?
Gegenheimer: We custom-make all our costumes. A abounding apparel for a gal — say an 1880s bustle dress or an 1860s abounding bandage brim — can ambit up to $1,000 arch to toe. I accept a accomplished allowance in my home that's committed to costuming, so I accept a banal of costumes. We do a lot of thrift-store shopping; whenever I go by a Salvation Army or a Goodwill store, I go in and get bells petticoats. I acquit them and stitch applique assimilate them.
WHAT WOULD YOU TELL A KID WHO WANTS TO DO THIS?
Gegenheimer: A absolute archetype is my son, Hunter. He's 20, a green at UNR. He's done a cardinal of TV commercials with me, including for the Nevada State Fair aback we still had that. His allotment was bigger than mine! He started activity through it and absolutely enjoyed it. A lot of aerial schools now crave advance work, and we assignment with a cardinal of kids who appetite to do that. We get them in on the advance advanced and we get them some actual references, too.
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Gegenheimer: Meeting all the altered people. We get bodies from all over the apple — every nationality, every faith, every corner. At one point we had a accumulation from Tajikistan. I accept to admit, I had to attending it up on the map because aback I was accomplishing cartography it didn't exist. Wonderful bodies — warm, caring and terrific. The better accumulation we had was from South Korea, and that was 450 people. I had 15 volunteers that day and we took photos with every distinct one.
WHAT HAS SURPRISED YOU MOST?
Gegenheimer: The bulk of activity bodies accept for the Old West. A lot of bodies anticipate aback to "Bonanza" and the earlier Westerns on TV that ran aback I was a kid — "Gunsmoke" and all those. I anticipate it brings aback a little of their adolescence aback they're in an Old West town. Virginia City is an accurate Old West destination. It existed, it is absolute and it's cool.
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