{"id":24118,"date":"2018-09-25T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2018-09-25T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:10:31","slug":"fort-frederick-hosts-colonial-militia-muster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/09\/25\/fort-frederick-hosts-colonial-militia-muster\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frederick Hosts Colonial Militia Muster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;Once a Year They March&#8221; on Sept. 29<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4326\/35881510416_c494561f79.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of living historians forming colonial militia \" width=\"349\" height=\"262\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/fortfrederick.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Frederick State Park<\/a>\u00a0invites visitors to experience life for a citizen-soldier in the Maryland militia during the French and Indian War.\u00a0The event takes place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 29, beginning with\u00a0a flag raising ceremony over the historic fort built in 1756.<\/p>\n<p>The militia was an essential part of colonial society. Mustering days, though martial in practice, were a day where entire communities could come together for a day of military drill, sport and eating and drinking &#8211; and now modern-day Marylanders can experience it for themselves.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Guest can join the fort&#8217;s interpretive staff in military drill and compete to see who is the fastest and strongest in foot races and shot put.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFort Frederick\u2019s militia muster hopes to teach visitors about the role of the militia in colonial Maryland,\u201d said Park Ranger Rob Ambrose.<\/p>\n<p>There is a service charge of $3 per vehicle for residents and $5 for nonresidents. Visitors should also be advised that disabled access is available, although most of the activities are on grassy areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once a Year They March&#8221; on Sept. 29 Fort Frederick State Park\u00a0invites visitors to experience life for a citizen-soldier in the Maryland militia during the French and Indian War.\u00a0The event takes place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 29, beginning with\u00a0a flag raising ceremony over the historic fort built in 1756. The militia was an<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/09\/25\/fort-frederick-hosts-colonial-militia-muster\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3007,3649,3577,3374],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-fort-frederick-state-park","tag-french-and-indian-war","tag-french-and-indian-war-muster","tag-rob-ambrose"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24123,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions\/24123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}