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 …
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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 …
Dedication of the Archaeology Education Lab
Last Thursday Fort Frederica National Monument had the dedication of the Archaeology Education Lab building. I mentioned the building being one of the changes at Fort Frederica. The building was a dream come true for Archaeologist Education Volunteer Ellen Provenzano and for Ranger Michael Siebert. When Michael first started working here seven years ago, he …
Sixth African American Festival
On February 18, Fort Frederica National Monument hosted its sixth African American Festival. Tom and I have participated in all of them. They all kind of blur together at this point because they are all the same. Only the players change from year to year. I have worked at the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor tent …
Intern Sierra Takes the Wheel
Sierra Sutton is one of our awesome interns here at Fort Frederica National Monument. She is the Student Conservation Association Archaeology intern. Her primary responsibility is working with students in the archaeology program. Her boss is Ranger Michael, who used to be our boss before he got promoted to being Resource Manager. When she mentioned …