Fort Dobbs' new manager ready to surge ahead
At a time when other historic sites around the country are shutting down, new site manager Doug Brown compares Fort Dobbs to a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Just two days after starting the job, Brown sat in a conference room in the small gray house that quarters the historical site’s offices and stared out the window, almost as though he could see the fort standing there.
Brown is no stranger to transormations -- Fort Dobbs will be the third large-scale historic site project he has worked on in his career.
“It’s like capturing lightning in a bottle,” he said. “I wanted to do it one more time.”
Brown started out with the National Park Service Ranger at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania. Since then, he’s helped develop several sites, including Pricketts Fort in Fairmont, W. Va.; Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, Wisc.; and most recently the Division of Historic Sites for the Morris County Park Commission in Morristown, N.J....
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Just two days after starting the job, Brown sat in a conference room in the small gray house that quarters the historical site’s offices and stared out the window, almost as though he could see the fort standing there.
Brown is no stranger to transormations -- Fort Dobbs will be the third large-scale historic site project he has worked on in his career.
“It’s like capturing lightning in a bottle,” he said. “I wanted to do it one more time.”
Brown started out with the National Park Service Ranger at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania. Since then, he’s helped develop several sites, including Pricketts Fort in Fairmont, W. Va.; Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, Wisc.; and most recently the Division of Historic Sites for the Morris County Park Commission in Morristown, N.J....