Jr Ranger season at Fort Frederica is in full swing.  Spring breaks from school are the prime Jr Ranger season here.  We get more Jr Rangers in the week before and after Easter than we get the rest of the year combined.  So I recently cleaned out the Jr Ranger letters bin. I wrote last …

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Ranger Ellen, here at Fort Frederica, has a program that she does with Kindergartners in the Glynn County School System.  She visits their classrooms and talks to them about the National Park Service.  I think it is her favorite part of her job.  Ranger Ellen rotates schools and takes one of the volunteers with her …

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When Tom was at San Juan Island, English Camp, he learned how to do some blacksmithing.  Actually, he already knew about it because his father had a forge, but he learned how to do it with living history.  Fort Frederica had a blacksmith and our Integrated Resouce Manager (Ranger Michael, our boss) wanted to have …

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As you probably know, February was Black History Month.  Thus, it was appropriate that here at Fort Frederica we celebrated Gullah Geechee Heritage Day on February 24.  I wrote about Gullah Geechee Day last year, but I think it is important enough to write about it again. This year’s Heritage Day was similar to last …

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Last year, while we were at Fort Frederica, we participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Nell Benefield put the event together and did a great job.  This year Nell returned as a volunteer to Fort Frederica with the specific task of putting together another birding event.  Thus, one of our special events for February …

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In order to get more people into the National Parks, the parks often have special events.  Here at Fort Frederica, our Resource Manager tries to schedule one or two special events each month.  January tends to be a month where lots of snowbirds visit but not many tourists.  So, our first event of 2018 was …

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This is our second tour of duty at Fort Frederica National Monument and Tom and I are enjoying it even more than last year.  The weather is beautiful (60 to 75 and mostly sunny) and there isn’t any snow.  Best of all, we get to work with lots of great people.  There are four other …

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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in Iowa was our last National Park site on our journey from Washington to Ohio.  Tom and I have driven by the exit on I-80 many times but never took time to stop.  We figured it was now or never. Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, was …

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Tom and I have always enjoyed working with children and youth.  We especially enjoy participating in the Jr. Ranger and education programs at the National Parks.  When we were visiting all the national park sites out west, we ran across a brochure that interested us:  Become a Scout Ranger. The National Park Service has a …

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The Trail we hear about most often, and the one we ran across most in our time out west, is the Oregon Trail.  People used the Oregon Trail to get to California (California Trail) and to Utah (Mormon Pioneer Trail).  But we seem to use the Oregon Trail is our generic name for all the …

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