During our four months at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Tom and I will be staying at the Wilderness Road Campground. We have never stayed in a park campground at the places where we worked before. The closest we got was the Paiute campground next to Pipe Springs. The Wilderness Road Campground has 154 sites …
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Final Thoughts (for 2023) on Fort Frederica
We had a wonderful season at Fort Frederica National Monument and were sorry to leave when April arrived. I wanted to share just a few, final thoughts – and pictures – on our season. Denise and Bob Verba worked very hard during their time at Fort Frederica. This was their 8th season at the park …
Scavenger Hunt at Fort Frederica National Monument
The Scavenger Hunt at Fort Frederica National Monument is one of our most popular activities for people of all ages. The Scavenger Hunt started in 2020 when the park opened again after Covid. We were not allowed to give out the haversacks that go along with our Junior Ranger program. Without the haversacks, the Junior …
Knitting the National Parks by Nancy Bates
During our time at Fort Frederica National Monument I enjoyed knitting hats from the book “Knitting the National Parks” by Nancy Bates. My friend, Chris Ferlinc, gave me the book for my birthday and I really got into it while I was working at a National Park site. As soon as we got to Fort …
Colonial Towels for Sale at Fort Frederica
This year at Fort Frederica National Monument was the year of the colonial towels. Last year the bookstore manager, Ellen Provenzano, started selling some of the towels that I wove while I was demonstrating living history. I only gave her ten towels, but they sold so well that she let me know, before I even …
Schooner on the Frederica River
Every morning when I take my walk, I walk along the Frederica River. I walk past the Arch Ed building, through the woods by the street, then along the river. It is always a gorgeous view over the marsh I often stop to take pictures. The Frederica River is part of the intracoastal waterway. The …
New Windows in the Visitors Center
Another change here at Fort Frederica National Monument this year was new windows in the Visitors Center complex. These windows were installed in February, which is not a time of year you would do windows in Ohio, but was fine for coastal Georgia. Of course, they started the day before the African-American Festival. Those things …
Mailbox Renovation at Fort Frederica
For the previous six years we worked at Fort Frederica National Monument, the mailbox has been in sad shape. There were two mailboxes, side by side, across from the Administration Building. They were covered in lichen and one of them didn’t shut. They sat on a rotten wooden platform. Finally, this year someone decided they …
Very Rainy Colonial Day at Fort Frederica
Last Saturday Fort Frederica National Monument had a very rainy Colonial Day. Colonial Day is our biggest event of the year and we usually have close to 1,000 visitors between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. The weather forecast had called for rain all day with up to an inch of accumulation. Although we were concerned …
Roofing the Blacksmith’s Shop
Over the last couple of weeks, Tom and Denise and Bob Verba have been roofing the blacksmith’s shop. When Tom and I first came to Fort Frederica National Monument in 2017 there was no blacksmith living history program. Our first year here, Tom did a soldier talk or a musket-firing demonstration. After working at San …