Fort Ticonderoga's Digital Campaign Continues
Fort Ticonderoga continues its Digital Campaign - an exciting virtual experience featuring interactive programming, engaging lectures series, and creative at-home educational activities and resources.
Thursday, April 15
From the Ground Up: Between the Wars
In this new episode of From the Ground Up, explore archaeological artifacts from the years between the French & Indian War and Revolutionary War as the British Army and their families continued the day-to-day garrison of Fort Ticonderoga!
Friday, April 16
Living History Program: Can You Bear it? Musician Caps of the 26th Regiment of Foot
Facebook, 3pm
Join Fort Ticonderoga for a behind-the-scenes preview of the new British drummer’s caps that will be worn in our portrayal of the Fifers and Drummers 26th Regiment of Foot this summer. From piecing and cutting bearskin, to setting painted silver plates and cords, see the surprising efficiency of making these visually impressive caps.
Saturday, April 17
Virtual Garden & Landscape Symposium (Day 2 of 2)
The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Ninth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium virtually. This online program features practical, easy-to-implement strategies for expanding and improving your garden or landscape. The presentations are offered online using Zoom. We invite you to join us this April, whether you are an experienced gardener or you are just getting started, for helpful insights from garden experts who live and garden in northern climates. This is a paid program that requires pre-registration.
Sunday, April 18
Virtual Author Series featuring David Head
In March 1783, an anonymous letter circulating through the Continental Army’s camp near Newburgh, New York called for the officers to meet and act boldly to obtain their long-overdue pay and desperately-needed pensions from Congress. Did the officers act on their own? Or did scheming politicians put them up to it? A Crisis of Peace provides a fresh look at an old mystery. David Head is an associate lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida and a former research fellow at George Washington’s Mt. Vernon. This is a paid program that requires pre-registration.
Wednesday, April 21
Virtual Fort Fever Series: Keep Calm and Carillon: New Initiatives for the Carillon Battlefield
Join Fort Ticonderoga Registrar & Site Archaeologist, Margaret Staudter, and Associate Professor and Director of the University of Vermont’s Consulting Archaeology Program, John Crock, to learn about the recent historical analysis and survey of the Carillon Battlefield as part of a Preservation and Planning Assessment funded by the American Battlefield Protection Program, National Parks Service. This is a paid program that requires pre-registration.
Friday, April 23
Living History Program: Building a Better Battery
Watch as Fort Ticonderoga staff set six-foot tall gabions and rebuild and extend the battery wall that is used for daily cannon demonstrations. See the careful fitting and brute force of driving the pointed posts of each gabion into place.
Wednesday, April 28
Museum Exhibition Program: An Exhibit in the Making
See what it takes to put on an exhibit! From design, to building, to working with historic objects, to installation, this video will show behind-the-scenes glimpses of the work that went into creating Fort Ticonderoga’s new exhibit A Well Regulated Militia: Citizen, Soldier, & State.
Friday, April 30
Living History Program: A Real Barn [addition] Raising!
Join Fort Ticonderoga staff as we raise the frame of our new barn addition into place! See many hands fight gravity’s pull and lift pre-fit timers into position.
As we continue adding to our Digital Campaign, be sure to visit fortticonderoga.org and our social media accounts for more exciting live videos, on-site special events, lectures series, and educational at-home activities that bring history to life!