{"id":24335,"date":"2018-10-02T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=24335"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:23:28","slug":"fort-frederick-hosts-picketing-the-potomac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/10\/02\/fort-frederick-hosts-picketing-the-potomac\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Frederick Hosts Picketing the Potomac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><em>Living History Event Oct. 6 and 7<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/fortfrederick.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4503\/37068610343_4125cb1ba2_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Civil War reenactors\" width=\"352\" height=\"437\" \/>Fort Frederick State Park<\/a>\u00a0in Washington County invites Marylanders to\u00a0take a journey back in time to\u00a0commemorate the fort&#8217;s role in the American Civil War. Union, Confederate and civilian reenactors will assemble for a weekend of living history and tactics demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend program takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 7.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the weekend, visitors will get a glimpse of what life was like during the winter of 1861-1862 around old Fort Frederick\u201d\u00a0Park Ranger Rob Ambrose said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlights of the event will be military drills, hands-on telegraphy programs, programs on the fort during the Civil war, soldier uniforms, and battlefield medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visitors will pay $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>Living History Event Oct. 6 and 7 Fort Frederick State Park\u00a0in Washington County invites Marylanders to\u00a0take a journey back in time to\u00a0commemorate the fort&#8217;s role in the American Civil War. Union, Confederate and civilian reenactors will assemble for a weekend of living history and tactics demonstrations. The weekend program takes place from 9 a.m. to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/10\/02\/fort-frederick-hosts-picketing-the-potomac\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"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":[3648,3007,3886,3374,2909],"class_list":["post-24335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-civil-war","tag-fort-frederick-state-park","tag-picketing-the-potomac","tag-rob-ambrose","tag-washington-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24449,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335\/revisions\/24449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}