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Walker also is training two young shoemakers to assist with the Fort Ligonier shoe project. I think young people are interested in history,” he says. “My group seems to be growing, (with) lots of young people. His own group of re-enactors, His Majesty’s Corps of Artificers and Auxiliaries, participated in this year’s Fort Ligonier Days festival.
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Walker uses known names of people who marched, along with “bits and pieces of research,” to imagine some of the participants’ stories. What would make you do this? How would you respond? What would your life be like?” he says. “Try to imagine yourself in the same shoes. While academicians can provide a bigger, bird’s-eye view of the conflict, Walker tries to urge people to consider the human response. “Why are certain people 300 miles in the woods? What’s their story?” he asks. “Imagine these are the shoes that walked 300 (plus) miles from Philadelphia through the wilderness to drive the French out of Fort Duquesne,” Walker says.Įquipping that army, Walker says, was a “monumental task.” His presentation will focus on the human stories connected to the bounty of shoes found at Fort Ligonier from the French and Indian War era. And third, leather to repair the two pairs of shoes,” was his response, Walker says. Walker says the Duke of Wellington once was asked what he considered to be the three most important pieces of equipment for a British soldier. Crispin’s Lance and the Forks of the Ohio: British shoes, shoemaking and shoe repairing on the Braddock and Forbes campaigns.” Shoemaker and historian Brett Walker will return to Fort Ligonier, where he sometimes appears as a re-enactor and where he is working on a project to examine and catalog a large cache of mid-18th-century archaeological shoes.