David H. Jones | July 31, 2010
We spent an entire day guided by Dr. Chris Fonvielle of the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the local expert who supplemented the knowledge of Will Greene on this part of the PHP Spring Tour. It was a beautiful day along the Cape Fear river as we toured Fort Fisher, [...]
David H. Jones | July 25, 2010
After visiting the New Bern Battlefield, our tour group travelled to Fort Macon, a Third System coastal fortification located on Bogue Banks at Beaufort, North Carolina. The irregular pentagon brick fort, now situated in Fort Macon State Park, was completed in 1834. Our guide was Paul Branch, Jr., an author and Park Ranger-Historian, who explained [...]
David H. Jones | July 24, 2010
It has been a long time since my last post to this blog . . . that’s pretty poor on my part. I promise to get “back in harness” and stay more current.
Following the North Carolina trip in May, we travelled to Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina for a week in June (including [...]
