Doctor Clift | June 2, 2010
From aerial photos, forts seem to all look alike in their star shape- their bastions and buildings and gates all seeming to share locations and you can typically make out the locations of the outer trenches. However, once you approach these bulwarks of ages past, you find that each one has its own personality, its […]
Doctor Clift | September 25, 2009
The Army Heritage and Education Center, I have to say, is a great site. As well it should be, as it has some of the best set ups for our entire Army History. Earlier this year I participated in a Timeline event at this site, which was lots of fun because they have actual standing […]
Doctor Clift | September 17, 2009
This event came onto my schedule rather last minute. My friend Tom said, “Hey can you come out to the Hager house in Hagerstown, MD this weekend? We’re doing a small encampment for an arts and crafts festival they put on, and we’d love to have you.” I had planned on attending the CI event, […]
Doctor Clift | September 5, 2009
Its so nice to have a home like Fort Frederick- a place where your unit is most at home, you have a specific course of actions that are taken, and you just feel like you’re coming to your second home. While travelling with a tent, a fly, all my medical equipment, and all my various […]
Doctor Clift | August 20, 2009
Last weekend I had the great opportunity to play Doctor at Old Bedford Village in Bedford, PA. While mostly a 19th Century site, it is also the location of old Fort Raystown- an outpost during the French and Indian War. I was given the Apothecary shop to operate my “hospital” from, but to also discuss […]
