OGDENSBURG – Re-enactors from New York and Canada will present “hands-on history” on May 20 for more than 300 students from the Ogdensburg City Schools, Heuvelton, and Morristown Central School districts.
Students are able to experience colonial life through demonstrations of open-hearth cooking, rope making, lighting, butter churning, weaving, toys and this year a biologist will be presenting information about native river life. The students also have the opportunity to complete a scavenger hunt for prizes.
This is the seventh year the event has taken place at Van Rensselaer Point the original site of Fort de la Présentation, which was constructed in the 1700s. The event is sponsored by the Fort de la Présentation Association, Heuvelton Central School, Ogdensburg City Schools, the Heuvelton Lions Club, the Ogdensburg Teacher's Association, the Heuvelton Teacher’s Association, and the Heuvelton PTA.
The Fort Association is a not-for-profit corporation based in Ogdensburg. Its mission is to sponsor or benefit the historically accurate reconstruction of Fort de la Présentation in close proximity to the original site, and to administer an ongoing presence. Our aim is to unite the community and the region in support of this through fund-raising. Our goals are to educate, to collect, to preserve or maintain, to develop, to research, to document, to interpret and to recreate educational or historical ventures of interest to Ogdensburg and the St. Lawrence Valley.
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