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CDSG Newsletter - Winter 2019 Page 2 CDSGThe Newsletter The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. — Winter 2019 Chairman’s Message CDSG Meeting and Tour Calendar Thomas D. Batha Please advise Terry McGovern of any additions or changes at [email protected] The winter quarterly telephonic board of directors meeting was conducted on January 27. As might be expected for this time of 2019 CDSG Conference year, the primary topics were membership renewals and the coming April 10 - 14, 2019 conference. I would urge all members to send in their renewals for Chesapeake Bay, VA 2019 as soon as possible. This is important for a number of reasons Terry McGovern, [email protected] but primarily for planning and projections. We are moving back to the 400+ membership numbers we enjoyed in the past and this 2020 CDSG Conference is encouraging. March 2020 Also discussed was the spring conference visiting the Harbor New Orleans, Louisiana Defenses of the Chesapeake Bay. The registration fee is needed Quentin Schillare, [email protected] immediately (see the enclosed form) so that final transportation arrangements may be completed. 2021 CDSG Conference A future special tour to Corregidor has been placed on hold for March/April, 2021 now. The CDSG board has dispatched founding member Glen Wil- Charleston/Savannah liford to the Philippines to check out the local situation and report Gary Alexander, [email protected] back on feasibility. (Actually, Glen was going anyway.) The future Special Tour to Sydney, Australia for 2020 has also been placed on Other Meetings and Tours hold. Ian Wolfe will be attending the 2019 CDSG Annual Con- ference and we will speak with him about the issues that led him April 3-6, 2019 to postpone the tour and how we can get this tour back on track. Council on America's Military Past Annual Conference Quentin Schillare reports that plans for the 2020 New Orleans Tuscon, Arizona conference are well in hand and progressing normally. Danny Johnson, [email protected] Finally, the 2021 conference site will be the Harbor Defenses of Savannah and Charleston. More details will follow in future May 1-5, 2019 Newsletters. INTERFEST Annual Meeting Once again, please send your membership renewals and confer- Berlin, Germany ence registration fees in ASAP and stay warm. Oliver Zauzig, [email protected] I look forward to seeing all of you in Virginia in April. * * * * * May 18-26, 2019 Preservation & Interpretation Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour Committee Report Peloponnese, Greece Gordon Bliss [email protected] Year in Review 2018 May 2019 I don’t have any significant news about progress at Fort Monroe Association Vauban Annual Congress over the past year. Those attending the conference this year will be Strassburg, France able to see the current situation for themselves and we should be Alain Monferrand, [email protected] able to get an update on plans for the fort. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there. June 14-25, 2019 The CDSG continues its involvement with a coalition of groups Association Saint-Maurice d'Etudes Militaries Tour working to prevent Plum Island NY, site of Fort Terry, from being Stuttgart & Ulm sold for development and to keep it as a nature preserve along with Pascal Bruchez, [email protected] preserving the remaining structures of Fort Terry. The Department of Homeland Security, the current agency in control, has agreed to September 13-15, 2019 a new environment impact study of the island. However, they have Deutsche Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung Annual Meeting also stopped all outside visits to the island, so there is no chance to Esslingen, Germany see Fort Terry for the indefinite future. My understanding of the Andrea Theissen, [email protected] The CDSG Newsletter - Winter 2019 Page 2 September 13-17, 2019, 2019 October 16, 2020 Association Saint-Maurice d'Etudes Militaries Tour International Fortress Council Annual Meeting Northern Italy Luxemburg Pascal Bruchez, [email protected] Kees Neisingh, [email protected] September 24-31, 2019 January 3-17, 2020 Forte Cultura Pilot Tour Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour Malta Hong Kong & Singapore Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] John Cartwright, [email protected] September 2019 September 12-19, 2020 Fortress Study Group Member Day Eccofort / Interfest Study Tour & Seminar Liverpool, United Kingdom Kotor & Montenegro [email protected] Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] September 2019 October 10, 2020 Association Vauban Tour International Fortress Council Annual Meeting Alain Monferrand, [email protected] Luxemburg Kees Neisingh, [email protected] October 11, 2019 International Fortress Council Annual Meeting May 9-16, 2021 Prague, Czech Republic Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour Kees Neisingh, [email protected] Gibraltar Alistair Graham Kerr, [email protected] September 12-19, 2020 ECCOFORT/INTERFEST Study Tour Kotor/Montenegro Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected] current situation with the new lab that is being built in Kansas is structure, part of which houses the local library. This is the type that it will be at least 1-2 years before the current lab can move of item that we wouldn’t hear about if it wasn’t for a local person from Plum Island, so we have some time to work this issue. who contacted us for information and is now providing an update At Fort Adams, volunteers continue to work on keeping the on what is happening there. My thanks to Dr. Walsh for this. outer works clear of excess vegetation and are now clearing three of the Endicott batteries south of the main fort. Battery Bankhead Volunteering for Preservation has been cleared of vegetation more than once and work is now This is where I periodically get on my preservation soapbox to being done to clear debris from the gun pit area. Battery Talbot encourage members to get more involved in preservation. This can has been partially cleared and the vegetation around Battery start as simply as letting myself or the Representative Committee Belton has been cleared and the battery cleaned up. They are know of changes or activities going on at a local coast defense site also continuing to work on clearing the remaining parts of the that may have an effect on it. The last item above is an example Advanced Redoubt. of this. The Preservation and Representative Committees can get There have been multiple developments in the Boston area. more involved in helping protect a site, but only if we know about A small group of us had an opportunity to visit Fort Warren in it. There have times where we only learned about a structure being Boston Harbor with a Massachusetts DCR planner to both review destroyed or buried after it has already happened. Many sites are improvements and work in progress at the fort, as well as to offer part of parks and have a local friends group or other community advice on what’s significant to interpret. At East Point, Nah- organization that supports it, even if it is primarily about the site ant Northeastern University has a plan to expand their Marine as a part and not about the fort. By being part of such a group, one Science Lab there by adding a new building on top of Battery can help others appreciate the coast defense aspects of the site. We Murphy.There is some more detail on this in a separate article in can, and have many times, provided information to groups like the newsletter. A full copy of the Northeastern presentation can this so they are more aware of what it is that they have and how be downloaded at http://www. nahant. org/documents/adminis- to interpret it. Finally, some locations, either as part of a friends trator/northeastern_university_dec_11_2018. pdf. group or more informally, have volunteer groups that actively go And at Halibut Point, the Massachusetts DCR has just recently out and work on sites such as the one at Fort Adams that I men- finished their rehabilitation of the fire control tower and attached tion in my reports. This can be simple cleanup and vegetation barracks there. removal, going all the way up to structural repairs. Many of the And finally, I just received an update about improvements done best maintained and interpreted coast defense sites are so because at Battery Gadsden, Fort Moultrie which will help preserve the they have an active volunteer group there that helps in doing so. The CDSG Newsletter - Winter 2019 Page 3 If you have a Preservation issue or question, or for further * * * * * information on any of the items I’ve mentioned, contact the Coast Defense Study Group Preservation Committee Chair, Gordon Bliss, Bliss, at preserva- Membership Update tion@cdsg. org. Quent Schillare, Membership Committee Chair * * * * * Outreach & Representative Committee As an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, Annual Report the CDSG maintains records of many things, including member- Norman Scarpulla ship. For the last several years our organization has sustained just short of 400 members. We ended 2018 with 394. Member dues Filling site representative vacancies continues. During 2018 are the life blood to support our quarterly Coast Defense Journal five long-time members agreed to cover sites. and the CDSG Newsletter, and the annual conferences to historic Bill Ricker – Fourth Cliff MR, Scituate, MA seacoast defense site and any special tours. Bill Cole – Cape May MR, NJ As of this writing we have 323 renewal for 2019, an 82% re- Roy Hatanaka – Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, CA newal rate. Four new members have joined and, unfortunately, Greg Jennings – Fort McDowell, San Francisco Bay two members have notified us that they now longer want to Gerardo Pinero Cadiz – Puerto Rico maintain their membership.
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