The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-09
Field Day at Fort Ticonderoga.

Announcements have already been
made Of Field Day of the Vermont
Historical Society, at Fort Ticonderoga,
N. Y, n.the banks of Lake Champlaip,
on Thursday, July 18th. 1872. It has
long been the desire and intention of this
society to havea Field Day celebration
at sone point of historic interest, and
none seemed more admirably adapted,
both in its historical and natural sur
roundings, than the place where YER
mont's distinguished hero achieved his
most successful exploit and uttered those
: memorable words of demand "In the
name of the Great Jehocah and the Con.
+ tinentaI Congress ~ The celebration is
one which can combine much of interest
. both to the citizen of Vermont and New
York, in fact every American citizen who
nonors his country and the struggles of
his ancestors. 1t affords the Vermont
Historical Society, which has attained an
honored position among similar associa-
tions, an opportunity to invite its sister
F societies throughout the country to join
with them in day of local as we'll as
national historic association, in looking
over the ruins and points of celebrity
that surround them
The celebration is not intended to be
carried forward with great degree of
formality, farther than appropriate pub.
lie exercises, at the conclusion of which
the varied localities will be pointed out.
The citizens of Ticonderoga take great
pride in their historic town and desire to
do every thing in their power to afford
facilities 20 carry out the purposes of the
celebration and to aid the Historical So
clety in their field day pastimes. A 10.
cal committee has been appointed, of which
Col ". f. Cakins, well known and
honorcd citizen, is chairman, who will
have charge of the immediate local ar
rangemeuts.
/, On the arrival OF the -pecial steam
boat from Burlington, at about eleven o.
clock. a. m, a procession will be form
ed under the direction of Col. W. 4.
Calkins, Chief Marshal, and march to
the ground selected, where the bubble ex-
ercises will take place, according to the
following
PROGRAMME:
|. Prayer-by Rev. Willard Child, b
D., of Crown Point.
2. Opening Address-by Rev. William
H. Lord, y. D., of Montpelier, Presi-
dent of the Vermont Historical Society.
3. Responses
I. Music
). Address by the Hon. Luaius L
Chittenicn Of New York city.
g. Music
:. rol alton
.',li to ihc tuins of the fort add
var ~. l.oints # interest
The orator Of the day is &, yermonter
Of wide fame, descendant of Governor
Chttenden. and diigent student of
Vermont history, whose grafton will be
of surprising interest to ali wno listen.
/, Dr.. Lord, the President of the society,
is well known eminent clergyman of
) our State whose reputation is sufficient
: guaranty of any address that he may de-
: liver, welcoming sister societies and the
masses that may come 10 that historic
} ground
Dinner will be provided on the grounds
near the hotel, so far as possible and
other arrangements for furnishing refresh
= ments, will be made.
Arrangements are in progress to secure
fare one way on the several railroads;
also on the Lake Champlain and Lake
) George steamboats, Posters containing
: full programme will he issued in a few
: days
This occasion will undoubtedly call to.
gcthcr a large crowd from Vermont and
New York who will visit this spot, so
: marked in the early history Of our country,
especially in the struggles of Vermont
Tor separate and Independent existence
The remains of the old fort and the
; military works now crumbling ruins, still
attest their original splendor and strength
They are now guarded and preserved by
private taste and intelligence from van.
dal outrages which were rapidly destroy
ing them. Winslow c. Watson, tne ex.
celent historian of Essex County, says,
I'VE may cherish the hope that
the most extensive and imposing
ruins in America, redoent with the
brightest historical associations and be-
coming shrouded in the venerableness Of
antiquity, will be perpetuated to excite
the admiration and to attract the pill.
grimage of future ages. These fields are
now titled in the peaceful pursuits of in-
dustry."
The vicinity of Ticonderoga, balls
, muskets, swords, and numerous other rel.
: les of war are being constantly revealed
At one time the line of the fatal abatis
might almost be traced by these dumb.
but significant memorials Of the spot
where the harvest of the death had been
| most exuberant. The course of the cir.
cumvallations and trenches, singularly
complex and interlaced, may readily be
j.. distinguished. Part of the battlement,
rising above the rocky cliff are almost en-.
tire. The line of the ramparts is still
traced the ruins of a portion of the bar
: racks remain, although private cupidity
has removed much of the brick aud stone
d, of the buildings. The bakery is in state
of good preservation.
The first Field Day Of the Vermont
Historical Society at Tlconderoga, bids
fair to be grand success.
, A POPULAR BELIEF SwEPt AwAV.-
Another fondly cherished tradition is eter-
nally swept away by the Rev. James B
Dunn, OF Boston, who is travelling in Pal.
estine' The reverend gentlemen visited
, the dead Sea, and his description that no.
torious sheet of water and salt fatty con-
| ,radicts all the accounts of all other trav-