Strawbery Banke, NH

June 10-11, 2000

Strawbery Banke is a very historic area in Portsmouth, NH. It's a large collection of buildings which together form a sort of open-air museum. One can visit the buildings themselves, including a real museum, but the area itself presents a village as one would have seen it in Colonial times.

We were there as the King's Rangers, mostly for ceremonial reasons. The organizers wished for us to take part in a parade and a ceremony to lay wreaths in the old cemetery by the Naval base (the oldest working Naval base in the US). Only three of us were there: me, Sgt. Paul Stevens, and Pvt. Ed Gagnon.