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The Guns of October
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger The war was all but over in 1783; Independence of the Thirteen States was essentially decided and the preliminary peace treaty had been ratified. A German officer, Johann Ewald of the Hesse-Cassel Field-Jäger Corps traveled from the British-held city of New York through some of the areas he’d served in the lower Hudson…
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The Apprentice and the “Unfortunate Person”
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger “About 1730, Pultney, later the Earl of Bat, lay for a long time at Lord Chetwynd’s house of Ingestre, in Staffordshire, sick very dangerously, of a pleuritic fever. This illness cost him an expence of 750 guineas for physicians…Dr. Hope, Dr. Swynsen, and other physicians from Stafford, Lichfield and Derby,…
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Tea for Two
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger Americans are often insular about their history, in particular, the War for Independence. The rest of the world seems to have been “out there” and far removed from the events here. Perhaps it’s the notion that the 18th Century world was a “bigger place” and communication was painfully slow, especially compared…
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Sweet Jane
By Joe Craig “The better the novel the more dangerous it is, because readers are more likely to think it’s true.” Antony Beevor Richard Ketchum’s Saratoga, Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War has been a continual best-selling item at Saratoga NHP. Not only is the story compelling about world-changing history but the often repeated verdict is that…
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Scared
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger Some of our visitors here at Saratoga NHP are Revolutionary War re-enactors. Many consider the visit here as something of a pilgrimage to the Turning Point of the Revolutionary War, and who could disagree? Occasionally, a re-enactor might grumble that the National Park Service does not permit battle re-enactments on…
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Prometheus’s Fire or Pandora’s Box?
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger Without doubt, the study of science and technology is right now about as sexy as anyone can imagine, at least when it comes to the education of American Youth. Yes, indeed, local TV stations play up the “STEM” curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as the greatest thing since sliced…
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Pox Upon It
In 1980, the World Health organization declared the eradication of one of the most deadly viruses that humans have faced: smallpox. To say that this was welcome news is an understatement as smallpox left a swathe of death and misery over many centuries throughout the entire globe. Most Americans today have only a vague notion…
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Paradise: Lost, Strayed or Stolen
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger There is a particularly amusing cartoon from Gary Larsen’s Far Side. (Okay, it’s one of many.) Amid an untouched natural world, a huge glass specimen jar labeled “Humans” has broken open and its occupants, a man and a woman are running free. From the clouds a voice says, “uh-oh” as…
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Of Bumps and Obelisks
By Joe Craig, Park Ranger When the Prospect Hill Cemetery was established in 1865, remnants of General John Burgoyne’s final entrenchments were still visible. The construction of the cemetery resulted in the complete eradication of that direct link to the events of 1777. Such actions often elicit a yelp of pain from modern historians, but…
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Mythinterpretations
“Contrariwise”, continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so it would be; but as it isn’t it ain’t. That’s logic”. Through the Looking Glass: and what Alice found there Lewis Carroll For quite a few years now the TV show “Mythbusters” has been trying to prove or disprove long…
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