Fort Sumter

As promised, we returned to Patriot's Point on Wednesday and caught the boat for a 30 minute ride out to Fort Sumter. The fort stands on a man-made island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. We learned lots of new historical facts about Fort Sumter, but the major fact, that this was the location of the first shot of the American Civil War, was something that we already knew. The brick work that you see in the pictures is actually only one third of the original height of the fort. Two other levels were destroyed during several different bombardments of the fort. As interesting as the fort was, a sign that I am actually becoming settled in retirement was that I found equal enjoyment in the boat ride to and from the fort.

Evidently, they have had major musical events on the grounds of Fort Sumter over the years. As seen in the picture below, we found the largest wireless microphone that I have ever seen. They had disabled that big "on" button that you see on the side of the mic, or I would have made this an audio post back to Ohio. I think that it goes up to 11.