On September 25, 2021, Alliance board members Melanie La Force,  Peter Vaselopulos, and Bryan Cheeseboro,  joined other local reenactors to participate in a living history program entitled "Seeing the Elephant" at the Historic Blenheim House and Interpretive Center. 

The question, "did you see the elephant?"  was a common expression used at the time of the Civil War.  By answering yes a soldier was able to confirm that he had experienced combat.

The Historic Blenheim House (located in Fairfax Court House, Virginia),  is  a historical interpretative center founded in 2008 that has preserved a Civil War era house containing graffiti from Union Soldiers.  

The program was about portraying and reading first-person historical narratives to communicate compassion during the Civil War. Stories were told representing Union and Confederate soldiers, and free and enslaved Blacks. The event was well attended (about 15- 20 people) and the reenactors engaged the audience and answered their questions after the presentation.