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Private tours of the fort

air view

Fort Warren with the town of Hull in the background.
Photo courtesy of Alfred Coombs

Although fort tours are carried out periodically by rangers and volunteers, author Jay Schmidt conducts private tours for Civil War Round Table associations and other groups. Jay often also leads group fort tours at weekend events sponsored by the Island Alliance.

school tour

Jay Schmidt at Battery Stevenson talking to a middle school group.
Photo by Jennifer Schmidt

Contact Jay Schmidt if your group is interested in a private tour of the fort, or if your club or school would like Jay to lecture to them about some of the historical events that took place at Fort Warren.

Execution site

Hear author Jay Schmidt tell the story of the two prisoners shot at this execution site.

He also gives public tours during the annual "Edward Rowe Snow Day" at the fort. He shows tourists the various locations and tells some of Snow's stories at the places where they occurred.

Jay Schmidt
ERS memorial
Jay telling the story of the Lady in Black.
The Edward Rowe Snow Memorial at Fort Warren.
Photo Copyright © 2005
The President and Fellows of Harvard University
Photo by Jeffry Pike
Photo by Jennifer Schmidt
   

 

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