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PRESS RELEASE: June 20, 2006
Contact: Peggy Morgia, Seaway Trail Discovery Center, 646-1000

Military History of Fort Drum Subject of Exhibit, Presentations July 21-30

The military history of Fort Drum will be presented in an exhibit and programs at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center from July 21 to 30. On Saturday, July 22 from 2 to 2:30 pm and Sunday, July 23 from 1 to 1:30 pm 10th Mountain Division Historian Douglas R. Cubbison will speak on the military history of Fort Drum and the North Country from the 18th century to the present.

Cubbison will cover such topics as Mohawk warpaths, the Watertown musket, activities at Camp Pine Plains including 1908 maneuvers by Frederick Dent Grant, and the 45th infantry division at Camp Drum. Cubbison will share some of military cartoonist Bill Mauldin’s experience at Fort Drum and the role of the post-1985 10th Mountain Division.

Prior to moving to Fort Drum, Cubbison was the Cultural Resources Manager for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Cubbison, who has ten year’s active and reserve military experience, is the author of two books and more than 60 articles on a variety of military history topics from the life of US Army test pilot Eugene Hoy Barksdale to General John White Geary’s White Star Division at Wauhatchie, Tennessee. He has been published by the Society for the Journal of Army Historical Research, The Newsletter of the Blue and Gray Education Society, The Journal of the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association and others.

Mr. Cubbison has served as a test engineer with the Department of Defense strategic and tactical weapons systems program, and spent more than 15 years’ providing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and Cultural Resources Management regulatory compliance oversight to the Department of Defense, government and private testing, research and design, and construction programs.Mr. Cubbison has advised agencies and organizations on the preservation, interpretation and development of historic, natural and recreational facilities and parks.

Military history and maritime history are two of the diverse travel themes promoted by Seaway Trail, Inc. and the Seaway Trail Discovery Center. The Center, owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and operated by the Seaway Trail Foundation, is located at the corner of Ray and West Main Streets in Sackets Harbor.

Three floors and nine rooms of the Seaway Trail Discovery Center and Gift Shop, built in 1817-18 as the Union Hotel, are filled with exhibits, interactive units and art and artisanal works encouraging visitors to travel the 518 miles of the Seaway Trail, one of America’s Byways. Admission to the Seaway Trail Discovery Center is $4; discounts are provided to military, AAA members, seniors and students. For more information, go online to www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000.