Ramona Vogel, an apprentice cooper at Colonial Williamsburg, talks about the coopering trade as practiced in the colonial era and modern misperceptions about women and work at the time.
To listen to this podcast, select "All 2006 podcasts," and scroll to the March 27th program.
Max Hamrick, a Colonial Williamsburg weaver, talks about the process and place of weaving in colonial-era society.
To listen to this podcast, select "All 2006 Podcasts," and scroll to the May first program.
Jim McDonald, once lead interpreter of the Wythe House in Colonial Williamsburg, outlines the the murder of George Wythe and the trial that followed.
To listen to this podcast, select "All 2007 podcasts," and scroll to the June fourth program.
The Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site preserves Fort Niagara, founded in 1726. The majority of structures on site date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The fort is strategically located at the mouth of the Niagara River. As a result, it was crucial to deciding American dominance in the Great Lakes Region, as opposed to control by the French or British. Both the British and French controlled either the fort itself or the site of the fort at various points of time. Soldiers lived and trained on site for both World Wars. The fort also shaped the history of the Iroquois. Collections include more than 102,000 artifacts.
The site offers period rooms, student programs, guided tours for students, school overnight programs, school outreach programs, and school distance learning programs. The website offers a virtual tour.
Hopkins was 10 times Governor of Rhode Island and signed the Declaration of Independence. His 1707 home is one of Providence's oldest surviving buildings.
The house offers tours.
The Adams County Historical Society operates a museum of the local history of Adams County, CO, and its people. Permanent exhibit topics include geology, prehistory, Native American life until 1850, mountain men between 1820 and 1840, settlers between 1860 and 1900, and the county itself between 1902 and 1930.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Boonton Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Boonton, NJ. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history, housed within the 1898 Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic John Taylor Building. The museum's permanent exhibit presents Boonton as it existed between the years of 1741 and 1903.
The society offers exhibits and walking tours.
Smallwood's Retreat is the 1760 home of General William Smallwood, the highest ranking Revolutionary War officer from Maryland and three-time governor. From this site, Smallwood operated a tobacco plantation, which at one point held 56 slaves and indentured servants, until his death in 1792. The interior is supplied with 18th-century furniture which matches the estate inventory.
The site offers period rooms and tours led by costumed interpreters. Tours are available April 27th through October seventh.
Point Lookout State Park is a peninsula, initially explored by John Smith in 1612. The site suffered British raids during both the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. The use of the word "lookout" in the park's name originates in the peninsula's use as a watch station for British naval activity within the Chesapeake Bay. Still later, the site was used to contain Confederate prisoners of war between 1863 and 1865. Several of the prison guards were African Americans, previously enslaved in the South. Today, features in the park include a U.S. Navy lighthouse; Civil War-era earthworks from Fort Lincoln; reconstructed barracks, officer's quarters, and the partial prison pen; and graves, now open, which originally held Confederate dead.
The park offers exhibits, a nature center, outdoor activities, and self-guided tours of Fort Lincoln.
Point State Park is located in central Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers. The Park is home to a partially restored Fort Pitt, which houses the Fort Pitt Museum and the Fort Pitt Blockhouse, the oldest authentic building in Western Pennsylvania.
The Fort Pitt museum offers guided tours, field trip programs, presentations and exhibits. The Fort Pitt Blockhouse is open to the public year round and offers self guided tours. The website offers visitor information and a basic history of the site while the Fort Pitt Museum website offers lesson plans and field trip guides.