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 …
From National Parks
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 …
Ranger Jamieson Learns to Weave
During the two months I have been at Fort Frederica National Monument, Ranger Jamieson has been learning to weave. Ranger Jamieson is a young ranger who is trained as an archaeologist. She was hired at Fort Frederica to work with the archaeology program. But she really enjoys the living history program as well and has …
Rangers Do Living History Too!
This year has been a first for us at Fort Frederica National Monument: the rangers do living history with us. For the previous five years, just the RV volunteers have done living history. Which sometimes means just Tom and I. Tom and I would be the only ones doing living history this year, except that …
Changes Going On Around Here
When we returned to Fort Frederica National Monument this year, we notices that there are some changes going on around here. This is the only park that we have worked at more than once, so it is hard to say whether changes are normal in the National Park Service. But, after years of talking about …
Renovated Fort Frederica Visitors Center
The Visitors Center at Fort Frederica was renovated over the last year. The newly redesigned Visitors Center opened in October and we have been enjoying showing it off to visitors. Tom and I helped with the planning of the redesign, but it is hard for me to imagine what a space is going to look …
Writing Other Duties as Assigned
One of the reasons Tom and I did not volunteer at a national park this last summer was because I wanted to finish writing a book. I always have several outlines for books going but it seems like I never have time to write them. Or, I start writing them, do about 100 pages, and …
Six Favorite Places of 2022
At the end of every year I think about my favorite places that I have been in the year. Are there places to which I am eager to return? What are the best memories and are they tied to the people or the place? This year I have six favorite places I want to highlight. …
North Country National Scenic Trail
While we were in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we realized that we were spending a lot of time hiking the North Country National Scenic Trail. As I saw the signs over and over, I realized that there must be a Passport stamp for that! And so our quest began: to find the passport stamp …
Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio
The last National Park site we visited on our September trip was Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park has five sites: the Wright brothers’ printing office, the bicycle shop, Wright mansion, Paul Laurence Dunbar’s home, and Huffman Prairie Flying Field. Each site requires driving to reach it, and …