Past Trips / Image Gallery

 

 

Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA (Spring 2007)

 

 

 

 

Laconia Airfield- WWII B-17 Flying Fortress bomber tour (Fall 2007)

 

   

 

 

NH Farm Trip

Hillsboro, NH Farm Trip- This winter History Club students got a chance to experience life as it was lived in the 18th-19th century by staying in a 1785 built farmhouse.  While there the students and chaperones cooked an 18th century meal from Martha Washington's recipe book of Shepherd’s Pie and Cream of Peanut soup.  Students also got lessons in starting a fire with flint and steel and got to feel the difficulties first-hand of hauling in water from an outdoor pump, using a 19th century style outhouse in the barn, and living in a room heated only by fireplaces and stoves.

 

 

Virginia Trip

Petersburg, Richmond, and Fredericksburg National Military Parks, VA (Spring 2008) this was our most recent trip.  Setting up our camp at Battersea Plantation, a 1760's era plantation house in Petersburg, Virginia, we spent two days touring the site of the 10 month long siege of Petersburg and despite some Bald Eagles preventing our walking the Battlefield of Colquitt's Salient near Union Fort Stedman (the trail is closed to protect the bird's environment), we managed to take in the majority of the site.  That night we wandered Richmond and made a visit to the Confederate White House as well as the Virginia State House. 

On Sunday, the rain began, but shaking off like veteran troops, we headed to the battlefield of Cold Harbor outside Richmond then on to Spotsylvania Court House where the weather cooperated to the fullest by raining even harder (during the battle in May of 1864 it was down pouring and thundering just as during our trip).  We made one quick stop at the Stone Wall in Fredericksburg, site of 13,000+ Union casualties in December of 1862 and then drove up to New York.

Monday morning we found our way to the New Croton Dam in Croton-On-Hudson, NY, the second largest hand-hewn stone structure in the world, second only to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.  We then headed to the Hudson Highlands to visit Fort Montgomery, site of a British victory in October of 1777.  The trip was a great success and a HUGE thanks must be offered to PMHS parent Mrs. Robin Perez who graciously volunteered to drive the second car.