#fortphoenix — Public Fediverse posts

#ScribesAndMakers 20 April: Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience?

Yes. Many years ago I performed in a couple of short children's plays I wrote.

During the second half of my working life, 28 years, I was Tourism Director for my town and created several historical walking tours and programs that I delivered weekly or monthly from spring to fall. Most recently was a program at the historical Fort Phoenix, the fun, entertaining, and educational "Pirates & Privateers" presentation. The script of the program included stories about the fort, local privateering during the Revolution, and life during the 1770s. It was held every Friday morning, weather permitting, in June, July, August, and September from 2016 through 2025.

The photo is my adult child and me portraying Caleb the powder monkey and Greybeard, a privateer during the Revolutionary War.

#Fairhaven #Massachusetts #AmericanRevolution #FortPhoenix #Reenacting

#ScribesAndMakers 20 April: Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience?

Yes. Many years ago I performed in a couple of short children's plays I wrote.

During the second half of my working like, 28 years, I was Tourism Director for my town and created several historical walking tours and programs that I delivered weekly or monthly from spring to fall. Most recently was a program at the historical Fort Phoenix, the fun, entertaining, and educational "Pirates & Privateers" presentation. The script of the program included stories about the fort, local privateering during the Revolution, and life during the 1770s. It was held every Friday morning, weather permitting, in June, July, August, and September from 2016 through 2025.

The photo is my adult child and me portraying Caleb the powder monkey and Greybeard, a privateer during the Revolutionary War.

#Fairhaven #Massachusetts #AmericanRevolution #FortPhoenix #Reenacting

So the day job in #Fairhaven #Massachusetts can be fun. This summer on Thursday afternoons I'll be a barber/dentist/surgeon demonstrating "Dreadful Medicine" at Fort Phoenix.

#18thCentury #History #Medicine #SouthcoastMA #FortPhoenix #BarberSurgeon

This early 20th Century #postcard promotes the #trolley line that ran from #NewBedford #Massachusetts to #FortPhoenix #Fairhaven This is now the location of the #MassDCR Fort Phoenix State Beach and Reservation. #SouthcoastMA #FairhavenMA @BuzzardsBay

This early 20th Century #postcard promotes the #trolley line that ran from #NewBedford #Massachusetts to #FortPhoenix #Fairhaven This is now the location of the #MassDCR Fort Phoenix State Beach and Reservation. #SouthcoastMA #FairhavenMA @BuzzardsBay

This early 20th Century #postcard promotes the #trolley line that ran from #NewBedford #Massachusetts to #FortPhoenix #Fairhaven This is now the location of the #MassDCR Fort Phoenix State Beach and Reservation. #SouthcoastMA #FairhavenMA @BuzzardsBay

These cannon have been in my hometown since before the Civil War, but Fort Phoenix itself was originally built in what is now #Fairhaven between 1775 and 1777, only to be destroyed by British troops in September 1778. There are five of these Seacoast Defense guns here. They are fired with blank charges of black powder a few times a year. (I hold a #Massachusetts cannon firing license.) #FortPhoenix #Cannon #History #FairhavenMA #SouthcoastMA #BuzzardsBay