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Encountering Fort Ticonderoga

8/1/2019

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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:
  1. Woke up at 3:30 am
  2. Received special treatment and hugs from the flight attendant
  3. Flew over some Great Lakes
  4. Stepped on Vermont for the first time
  5. Visited a cemetery with graves Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers
  6. Arrived too late to participate in the Vermont State Cornhole Tournament
  7. Saw a giant maple syrup jug, a giant gorilla holding up a Volkswagon Bug, and a dinosaur
  8. Passed Lotsawater Road and Hardscrabble Road
  9. Celebrated the moon landing’s 50th anniversary in John Deere’s hometown
  10. Stepped on New York soil for the first time
  11. Waited for an Amish buggy to turn off the road
  12. Took a picture of a lock on the Champlain Canal
  13. Stood where Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold woke the British to take Fort Ticonderoga
  14. Watched the inspection of French troops
  15. Sampled vintage chocolate
  16. Observed the steps to firing a cannon
  17. Discovered the arrival of British invaders on the La Chute River
  18. Marched to battle with French drums and fifes
  19. Watched the British attack at the Heights of Carillon
  20. Witnessed French troops successfully defending the fort against a force four times as large as their own
  21. Met educators from at least 10 U.S. states and the District of Columbia
  22. Ate crab soup
  23. Ate Sausage and Chicken Alfredo
  24. Shared our class website with other participants of the Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute
  25. Observed the landscape from Mount Defiance
  26. Walked through the King's Garden
  27. Rode in a replica 1920s canal boat
  28. Floated past historic locations from the 17th and 18th centuries
  29. Searched for Champ, the Champlain monster
  30. Viewed Revolutionary bridge pylons on the floor of Lake Champlain
  31. Saw a sunken boxcar and a failed, floating railroad bridge on sonar
  32. Learned about a World War I ambulance driver
  33. Contrasted the French and Indian War with WWI
  34. Discussed why nations go to war
  35. Explored the trenches at the Heights of Carillon
  36. Failed miserably at a rousing game of Fort Ticonderoga trivia
  37. Held Surgeon Daniel Dwight’s 1759 powder horn
  38. Held soldier’s commission papers of the Marquis de Lotbinièr signed by King Louis XVI
  39. Held 1742 British musket
  40. Turned the pages of a 1731 book, printed in Nuremburg
  41. Read Stephen Pell’s WWI letters from France
  42. Learned about Leonard Wood and the Plattsburgh Movement
  43. Discussed how we memorialize and remember war
  44. Rode around the peninsula in a bateau
  45. Got caught in a thunderstorm while floating up the La Chute River
  46. Drove to the hotel in soaked clothing
  47. Ate at McDonald’s four times
  48. Explored the ruins of British and French forts at Crown point
  49. Discovered graffiti carvings from the 1700s and 1800s
  50. Took almost 800 photographs
  51. Watched fishermen and sailboats in the deep water
  52. Visited the Samuel de Champlain monument and lighthouse
  53. Watched cannon and musket demonstrations after dark
  54. Saw cannons taken from Fort Ticonderoga by Henry Knox
  55. Learned about the flaws of Fort Carillon’s design
  56. Watched the sunset
  57. Stitched uniform material
  58. Stitched shoe leather
  59. Learned about Red Devon cattle and how to drive them in yoke
  60. Sawed a rocker to be fitted onto a new bateau
  61. Completed 45 hours of professional development focused on the French and Indian War and WWI
  62. Crossed the Champlain Bridge
  63. Drove past the Vermont Teddy Bear factory
  64. Spent too much for gasoline
  65. Noticed only one Bernie Sanders bumper sticker in Vermont (and it was for 2016)
  66. ​Waited for flights in Burlington, Vermont, and O’Hare International in Chicago, Illinois
  67. Took 800 photographs
  68. Hit the runway hard when landing in Joplin after dark

Read more about this incredible experience on my Fort Ticonderoga page.
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