Success Stories

Faneuil Hall 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts is not the Faneuil Hall of 1767, Nor is Boston for that fact. Today, Faneuil Hall, and the adjacent Quincy Hall Marketplace, is an international destination for shoppers to the historic marketplace in the oldest part of Boston. Faneuil Hall, a gift to the residents of Boston from Peter Faneuil, allowed for a more formal marketplace and meeting hall which became the meeting place in Boston by the 1770’s. As tension grew with the m

Saint-Gaudens and his assistants sealed shut roughly two dozen sculpture molds, which they placed into storage for safekeeping. Since then, the molds have passed from the Saint-Gaudens family to the non-profit Saint-Gaudens Memorial. The molds remain sealed but, thanks to an innovative partnership with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, their secrets have been revealed with the use of CT scanning technology.

Using 3D technology of the future, Fort Stanwix National Monument and Dr. Michael "Bodhi" Rogers to preserve the past. In June of 2018, a fireplace hearth, the only structure left visible from the original fort, became the first artifact scanned using this technique.

The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit, teamed up with the National Park Service (NPS) for a Day of Service Project at Ellis Island on September 11, 2017. The Mission Continues empowers veterans to find purpose through community impact while they adjust to life back home.

Gettysburg National Military Park successfully burned 52 acres of Little Round Top on Monday, April 10, 2017, to remove grass, undergrowth and brush from an area historically open at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.

On October 1, the National Park Service’s (NPS) Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA) teamed up with the Middlesex Greenway Coalition and the Metuchen Environmental Commission for a National Public Lands Day event in Metuchen, New Jersey. NPS RTCA is providing planning support to the Borough for greenway and trails development and natural resource conservation. 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site had a big celebration of President Kennedy’s “100th birthday” over the long weekend of May 26-29.

On November 22, John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site held a special Day of Remembrance Ceremony to commemorate the life and legacy of its namesake. The program included a wreath-laying with representatives from local religious institutions, speeches from local dignitaries and NPS staff, music, a color guard from the USS Constitution, and a 21-rifle salute and the playing of “Taps”, provided by the Leatherneck Honors Society of Massachusetts.

During the first week of August 2017 the Northeast Region Archaeology Program (NRAP) joined staff and volunteers from Saint Croix Island International Historic Site (SACR) and Acadia National Park (ACAD) to conduct high resolution geophysical surveys across the actively eroding southern half of Saint Croix Island, the location of one of the earliest first French settlements in North America (1604).

As a law enforcement officer at Friendship Hill National Historic Site and Fort Necessity National Battlefield, my duties give me a lot of different experiences. On December 18, 2017, I found myself at the Mount Pleasant Walmart in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, shopping for Christmas presents with a three-year-old girl named Anastasia.