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Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
making apple butter outside the Job House throughout the festival local musicians played mountain music on the front porch stirring the kettle for hours was warm work, so the stirrers traded off . . .… more →
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On the road again in Texas
bonniejonesphoto wrote 9 months ago: We were on the road again last weekend, this time to San Antonio. We meandered along small roads and … more →
Some Lovely and Lonesome Places
bonniejonesphoto wrote 10 months ago: Here’s another batch of photos from my trip through the Big Bend of Texas. I grouped these tog … more →
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: making apple butter outside the Job House throughout the festival local musicians played mountain mu … more →
Fort attacked by Shawnee war party
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: I participated in my first re-enactment this past weekend during the Fall Festival here at the fort. … more →
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Mornings are busy times at the fort, before the first visitors arrive, with invariable chores relati … more →
Backwoods Virginians and the "First Declaration of Independence"
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have b … more →
Memorial Day observations
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: In honor of Memorial Day here at Pricketts Fort, Okey Simmons gave a brief talk about the sacrifice … more →
These past two days . . .
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: These past two days have really taken it out of me. Giving talks to several hundred children from f … more →
miserable, wet & cold
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: A cold wet miserable Saturday morning — just the sort of morning I especially enjoy at the for … more →
Chief Logan & the birth of Pricketts Fort
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: On this date, in 1774, at a trading post in Baker’s Bottom, near Wheeling on the Ohio River, a … more →
a mingling of eras
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: On this day, two hundred and thirty-one years ago, in 1777, when the original Pricketts Fort was onl … more →
a new season
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: We just opened here at the fort a couple of days ago. The weather has been about perfect, sunny but … more →
