This episode of the ADK Talks podcast features nationally known Theodore Roosevelt reprisor Joe Wiegand to relive T.R.’s deep Adirondack ties — from youthful birding trips and great camp visits to the legendary midnight ride that began at Mount Marcy and ended with the oath of office in Buffalo. [Read more…] about Wild at Heart: Teddy Roosevelt’s Adirondack Adventures
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The First Civil War Reenactor: General Judson Kilpatrick
Not long after the guns of the Civil War fell silent, many former combatants took up the pen to re-fight their battles on paper. The conflict had been a defining moment in the lives of thousands of young soldiers. Major General Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881), arguably one of the most colorful figures to emerge from war, longed for a more visual reminder of things past.
And in 1878, on the bucolic fields of his northern Deckertown New Jersey farm, “Little Kil” as he was affectionately called by his West Point classmates, sought to recreate scenes familiar to the old veterans. General Kilpatrick would stage the first major reenactment of a Civil War battle.* [Read more…] about The First Civil War Reenactor: General Judson Kilpatrick