[Leica] Fort Ross State Park

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

What a great place.
We love to visit these places with historic interest and those that do 
dressing up and role play for children are much more popular, once with our 
own, now with our grandchildren. It converts the visit from something they 
are bored by to something which they really absorb.
cheers,
Frank D.

> On 6 Jun 2016, at 23:16, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I love this park.  Been there three times, the last two on cloudy days.  
> The best time because you can really capture the mood of the northern 
> California Coast then. It is the site of an old Russian settlement and 
> fort, well preserved and maintained mostly by volunteers of the Fort Ross 
> Society, with a little help from the state of California.
> 
> Here is a collection of 14 photos from the fort and one just north of the 
> fort.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/
> 
> I?ll point out a few:
> There was a group of school children there for a field trip.  They were 
> decked out on period garb and were doing tasks that people would have done 
> in the fort.  I got there just as they were finishing up, so only got to 
> see a few of the marching about as they were returning their arms to the 
> armory.  
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Fort+Ross++-9029.jpg.html
> 
> This shows the setting of the fort in the low hills along the coast.  The 
> building is the chapel, which is still used from time to time.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Fort+Ross++-9040.jpg.html
> Interior:  
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Fort+Ross++-9058.jpg.html
> 
> The buildings have exhibits of period implements that are similar to what 
> was probably at the fort.  Most are static exhibits, but some are used at 
> various times, like the armory.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Fort+Ross++-9043.jpg.html
> 
> Just to the south is the Russian cemetery with many crosses still visible.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Fort+Ross++-9089.jpg.html
> 
> There is a large Russian community still in the area that supports and 
> helps out at the fort, and the docent was explaining how even the Russian 
> Embassy in San Francisco is active in preserving the history of this 
> Russian outpost. 
> 
> We were camping north of the park, and on our way down to the park there 
> were three people sitting on a porch outside a store by a little cove.  I 
> had said I had wished I had stopped to take their photo.  Well, many hours 
> later on our return to the campground they were still there with friend.  
> So, I did stop and earned a bit about the history of the store and the 
> pirate who robbed it way back when.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/fr/Ocean+Cove+Store-9093.jpg.html
> 
> Comments welcome.  View them large if you can.
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
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