Analysis: Fife and drum still in play at Ft. Ticonderoga

From: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) | Date: August 13, 2005| Author: SCOTT SIMON | Copyright information


NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday

08-13-2005

Analysis: Fife and drum still in play at Ft. Ticonderoga

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

SCOTT SIMON, host:

Six hundred fifers and drummers and a few bagpipers convened last weekend for the annual National Muster, a tribute to early American martial music. They met in Ft. Ticonderoga, New York, on the shores of Lake Champlain, a key outpost in the Revolutionary and French and Indian Wa...

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