When Thomas Quirk was seven years old, he attended a reenactment of the Boston Massacre and was immediately bitten by the eighteenth-century bug. Thomas learned to play the fife in the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps, where he served as Drum Major for several years. A native of Central Massachusetts, Thomas is a current member of the Berkshire Fife and Drum Corps and Grand Republic Fife and Drum Corps, and the marching instructor for the Company of Fifers & Drummers Junior Fife and Drum Camp in Ivoryton, Connecticut, where he attended as a child. He founded Experience History in 2026 to share his passion for Colonial America and how understanding the past helps to inform our present.