In the harsh winter of 1872 First Naval Lord Sydney Dacres was found frozen to the side of an Moroccan merchant ship entering New York Harbor. Upon thawing his person revealed a small book entitled 'Things That Have Not Yet Been But Probably Will.' Included inside were various predictions of historical events of the next century as well as instructions that each should be enacted on a clear day in front of an audience of no less than thirty-seven people. Intrigued by the notion, local scholars formed the first chapter of the Historical Preenactment Society.