{"id":3786,"date":"2017-01-02T12:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2017-01-02T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:00:13","slug":"president-taft%e2%80%99s-visit-to-fort-ticonderoga-focus-of-fort-fever-series-program-january-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3786","title":{"rendered":"President Taft\u2019s Visit to Fort Ticonderoga focus of Fort Fever Series Program January 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/WilliamHowardTaftPresTaftBlog.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>President Taft speaks at Fort Ticonderoga during his visit on July 6, 1909.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fort Ticonderoga\u2019s \u201cFort Fever Series\u201d begins on Sunday, January 8th, at 2 p.m. with \u201cPresident Taft Comes to Ticonderoga,\u201d presented by Director of Education, Rich Strum. Tickets are $10 per person and can be purchased at the door; Fort Ticonderoga Members are admitted free of cost. The program will take place at the Mars Education Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliam Howard Taft is the only sitting President of the United States to visit Fort Ticonderoga. Taft\u2019s visit came early in his term, July 6, 1909, as part of the week-long Champlain Tercentenary Celebrations throughout the Champlain Valley,\u201d said Rich Strum Fort Ticonderoga Director of Education. \u201cThe early restoration work at Fort Ticonderoga, undertaken by museum founders Stephen and Sarah Pell, was underway, and the President was given a tour of the work by Sarah Pell. Thousands attended the day-long event on the Ticonderoga peninsula. Learn about the advance planning, the scope of the celebration, and the details of Taft\u2019s visit.\u201dRich Strum is the Director of Education at Fort Ticonderoga, serving as the Project Director for the Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute. He is managing Editor of The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum and the North Country Coordinator for New York State History Day.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFort Fever Series\u201d is just one of several programs taking place at Fort Ticonderoga this winter and early spring. Clothing and Accoutrement Workshops are offered March 11 &#038; 12 and April 8 &#038; 9. Fort Ticonderoga presents living history events January 21st (1757 Battle on Snowshoes), February 18th (1775 British Garrison at Ticonderoga), and March 25th (Four Divisions formed at Fort Carillon; Rigaud\u2019s Attack of Fort William Henry). The Sixth Annual Garden &#038; Landscape Symposium will be held on April 8th. You can learn more about these programs by visiting www.fortticonderoga.org. Some programs require advanced registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Taft speaks at Fort Ticonderoga during his visit on July 6, 1909. Fort Ticonderoga\u2019s \u201cFort Fever Series\u201d begins on Sunday, January 8th, at 2 p.m. with \u201cPresident Taft Comes to Ticonderoga,\u201d presented by Director of Education, Rich Strum. Tickets are $10 per person and can be purchased at the door; Fort Ticonderoga Members are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;President Taft\u2019s Visit to Fort Ticonderoga focus of Fort Fever Series Program January 8th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-ticonderoga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}