- Woke up at 3:30 am
- Received special treatment and hugs from the flight attendant
- Flew over some Great Lakes
- Stepped on Vermont for the first time
- Visited a cemetery with graves Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers
- Arrived too late to participate in the Vermont State Cornhole Tournament
- Saw a giant maple syrup jug, a giant gorilla holding up a Volkswagon Bug, and a dinosaur
- Passed Lotsawater Road and Hardscrabble Road
- Celebrated the moon landing’s 50th anniversary in John Deere’s hometown
- Stepped on New York soil for the first time
- Waited for an Amish buggy to turn off the road
- Took a picture of a lock on the Champlain Canal
- Stood where Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold woke the British to take Fort Ticonderoga
- Watched the inspection of French troops
- Sampled vintage chocolate
- Observed the steps to firing a cannon
- Discovered the arrival of British invaders on the La Chute River
- Marched to battle with French drums and fifes
- Watched the British attack at the Heights of Carillon
- Witnessed French troops successfully defending the fort against a force four times as large as their own
- Met educators from at least 10 U.S. states and the District of Columbia
- Ate crab soup
- Ate Sausage and Chicken Alfredo
- Shared our class website with other participants of the Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute
- Observed the landscape from Mount Defiance
- Walked through the King's Garden
- Rode in a replica 1920s canal boat
- Floated past historic locations from the 17th and 18th centuries
- Searched for Champ, the Champlain monster
- Viewed Revolutionary bridge pylons on the floor of Lake Champlain
- Saw a sunken boxcar and a failed, floating railroad bridge on sonar
- Learned about a World War I ambulance driver
- Contrasted the French and Indian War with WWI
- Discussed why nations go to war
- Explored the trenches at the Heights of Carillon
- Failed miserably at a rousing game of Fort Ticonderoga trivia
- Held Surgeon Daniel Dwight’s 1759 powder horn
- Held soldier’s commission papers of the Marquis de Lotbinièr signed by King Louis XVI
- Held 1742 British musket
- Turned the pages of a 1731 book, printed in Nuremburg
- Read Stephen Pell’s WWI letters from France
- Learned about Leonard Wood and the Plattsburgh Movement
- Discussed how we memorialize and remember war
- Rode around the peninsula in a bateau
- Got caught in a thunderstorm while floating up the La Chute River
- Drove to the hotel in soaked clothing
- Ate at McDonald’s four times
- Explored the ruins of British and French forts at Crown point
- Discovered graffiti carvings from the 1700s and 1800s
- Took almost 800 photographs
- Watched fishermen and sailboats in the deep water
- Visited the Samuel de Champlain monument and lighthouse
- Watched cannon and musket demonstrations after dark
- Saw cannons taken from Fort Ticonderoga by Henry Knox
- Learned about the flaws of Fort Carillon’s design
- Watched the sunset
- Stitched uniform material
- Stitched shoe leather
- Learned about Red Devon cattle and how to drive them in yoke
- Sawed a rocker to be fitted onto a new bateau
- Completed 45 hours of professional development focused on the French and Indian War and WWI
- Crossed the Champlain Bridge
- Drove past the Vermont Teddy Bear factory
- Spent too much for gasoline
- Noticed only one Bernie Sanders bumper sticker in Vermont (and it was for 2016)
- Waited for flights in Burlington, Vermont, and O’Hare International in Chicago, Illinois
- Took 800 photographs
- Hit the runway hard when landing in Joplin after dark
My week of study at Fort Ticonderoga on the peninsula overlooking Lake Champlain was replete with activities and deep discussion. When I arrived on my first day, I arrived in the morning, with very people on the site. The first video I took of Lake Champlain and Mount Defiance shows not a single soul and emphasizes the serenity of the site when not on high alert. This, coupled with time on the mountain, time on the water, time in the fort, time in the garden, time in the displays, time in the collection, and time in the classroom, made for quite the crash course in fort history. Here is a list I created to document most of my experience at Fort Ticonderoga in July of 2019: Read more about this incredible experience on my Fort Ticonderoga page.
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