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Posted: 6/21/2012 6:32:58 AM EDT
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As promised here are a few more pictures of my retro cannon. First up is one in front of a church in my home town. A friend asked me to set up and fire it at his daughter’s wedding. All of the groomsmen were eager to fire it but the bride declined; something about not wanting to get her dress dirty.  This one is some guy standing next to the gun during the wedding ceremony in his Rev War Infantry Regimentals.  Next is one of my two sons firing at one of the local seacoast forts.  And this one is my son and his new wife. Instead of unity candles they chose to light (fire) unity cannon. My new daughter-in-law is a member of a Rev War artillery unit and so was not reluctant to fire the gun. Out of view are the two smaller guns each of them fired individually prior to touching off my gun together. The smoke is from the previous guns firing.  |
| Very nice cannon. In relic hunting or digging to China I've yet to find a cannon. Found most everything else Civil War related. Not many Revolutionary war artifacts in my area and although I'm not too far from Yorktown usually only go there to repair the Power Companies equipment when they are too cheap to rent a crane. Maybe one day I'll give it a whirl. Congrats for the newlyweds and possibly grandchildren in the near future. Sister did the colonial wedding theme with the hoop dresses and colonial musicians. |
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Very nice cannon. In relic hunting or digging to China I've yet to find a cannon. They are supposedly out there, depending where you are. I think there are supposed to be 2 or 3 grasshoppers here in NY that were abandoned and hidden during the raids out of Niagara and Canada. There are also legends about some cannons abandoned in the woods in the Adirondacks, I think from Sir Joghn Johnson's escape to Canada. A local church near here still has a hole in the fascia from a cannonball from one of the grasshoppers in one of the raids. |
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http://dmna.ny.gov/forts/fortsE_L/lowerFort.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stone_Fort_(Schoharie,_New_York) Its a ways from Hubbardton but if you are driving from Colorado it isn't that far out of the way I guess, Just a quick run off of I-88 down on rt 30. Is that a lottery coat that fellow is wearing? more neat info: On the morning of the 18th, Colonel Johnson and his men proceeded on the road on the West side of the Schoharie Creek. The road was so rough that Johnson ordered the mortar slung across a horse but Major James Gray, who was in command of the rear guard and artillery, thought they were closely pursued by the militia and had the mortar with its ammunition buried in a swamp. http://www.threerivershms.com/schoharie.htm
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