A small disquisition on hoeing, boredom, and starvation

Many of these days lately I have spent much of my time hoeing among the corn hills in the field outside the fort.  Not long ago, while I was bent to my task, I gradually grew aware that someone was watching me.  I straightened up slowly (in negotiation with my arthritis), and turned to discover that [...]

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Recruiter for General Hand to be at Pricketts Fort, July 4

To All Brave, Healthy, Able Bodied and Well Disposed Young Men, in this Vicinity, Who have any Inclination to Join the Troops now Raisng under General Hand, at Fort Pitt, for the Defence of the Liberties & Independence of the United States against the Hostile Designs of Foreign Enemies TAKE NOTICE, that Saturday, July Fourth, [...]

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Idyllic days on the old Virginia frontier . . .

It’s not all tomahawk throwing & telling tall tales around the campfire out here on the romantic Virginia frontier, not by a long shot …. Day to day life at the fort is just a bit more prosaic. Take Two Hawks here, passing an idyllic Spring morning mucking out the sheep pen — ah, that [...]

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Ancestral Wars

On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War. At the time [...]

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