Jaime Chats with Beth from Fort Ticonderoga About Memorial Day Weekend and More!

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Episode Transcript

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I am so excited this morning tohave the opportunity to speak with my friend
Beth from Fort ticondo Roga. We'realways chatting with each other about all the
great things that are going on atFort ticonder Roga, and you always hear
me telling you about what a wonderfulday trip it is. But Beth is
the expert and she's going to giveus the scoop on everything. First off,
Beth, how are you. Goodmorning, Damie, good morning.

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I'm so happy to be with youtoday and share all the amazing experiences for
Tae condar Roga has to offer.I know and I love going up to
Fort taikondar Roga because of what yousaid, They're so much. But I
want to start out if we can. I mean, Memorial Day weekend is
coming up. A lot of peoplelike to plan day trips, like to
figure out what to do. Youhave special stuff going on at Fort ticondar

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Roga this weekend, we do.Memorial Day is so special at Fort ta
condar Roga. Number one, itkicks off unofficially the summer season, and
I know everybody's eager to get outand into the beauty of our region and
into the lakes and the mountains andjust a quick drives from Albany. But
also what's so special is at PoorTech condar Roga, we do amazing programs

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recreating the fight for liberty. Thisparticular Memorial Day weekend, we're highlighting the
American soldiers at Tae conder Roga inseventeen seventy seven. We'll have our fife
and drums, we'll have special toursall weekend, historic trades, military drills,
and also what we've all been waitingfor, our beautiful carry On touring
boat is coming back to Tai condarRoga this weekend. We're starting our boat

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tours on Friday, the twenty sixand we'll be going all weekend. And
Jamie, that is the best wayto get out to enjoy the beauty of
the region for seventy five minute boattour and relax and hear the history.
And it's so popular and so weoffer combo tickets to include the boat and

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all these special programs going on allweekend. So it really is great this
weekend to plan as party your MemorialDay to go to Fort ticondar Roga.
But if for some reason that doesn'twork for you, you need to know
that Fort Ticonderoga always has amazing thingsto see and do. I mean,
I love, you know, walkingthrough the gardens, Beth, but I'm

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gonna let you tell everybody about itbecause you're the expert here. But I
just like to let people know thatit's you know, yes, it's living
history, but there's so much beautyinvolved as well, So tell everybody about
all the great stuff that's going onall the time. Damian. There's definitely
something for everyone. And it's sucha joy to see all of our visitors

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from and explore our two thousand acreepic landscape. And you're right from our
beautiful kings gardens to meeting our heritageBreed, Oxen, Nick and Mac to
going to the Heights Amount Defiance andhaving a picnic. We overview the entire
Lake Champlain Valley and enjoy tours upthere to our carry On Battlefield hiking trail

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and all the museum exhibits we haveto offer, as well as our living
history or thrilling weapons demos, historictrades, and our tickets are by one
day, get the next day free. Some people like to come up to
the region and maybe make it aweekend and really because there's so much to
see and do. To do allof it, it could take two days.
And we also have great on sitefood and beverage. We have an

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awesome cafe that integrates our King's Gardenproduce. We have a wonderful museum stores,
so really something for everyone to enjoy. And also note check out our
website a four tech Hunter Rugged dotorg because we have a lot of special
programs coming up this year, behindthe scenes tours as well as really incredible
epic reenactments and special event so everybodyshould go to four tech org check out

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our info and samy. The finalthing to note is for Tech Hunter Rouge
is owned and operated by the fourTech Hunter Rouge Association, which is a
nonprofit educational organization, and so ticketpurchases and memberships and support helping sure that
we're able to tell this story forgenerations to come. So have an amazing
experience and also know you're doing somethingreally good for popsterity. The Memorial Day

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weekend, yeah, and I wantto remind everybody that Fort Taykonda Roga is
open Tuesday through Sunday, rain orshine, there's always something to do.
Don't let rain stop you because youknow there's stuff indoors intended that you can
do and have fun with. SoTuesday through Sunday, rain or shine through
October twenty nine, definitely try andmake it this weekend because it's gonna be

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a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Ormake that overnight trip. As Beth said,
it's buy a ticket for one day, next day is free. You
cannot beat that deal to go withthe whole family and have a great time.
And again, the website is FortTiconderoga dot org, Fort Taykonda Roga
dot org. Beth, it isalways so good to talk to you.

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Thank you so so much for joiningme this morning. Thank you, Jamie.
We look forward to seeing everyone thisweekend.