Blog #4 Gaspesie
We began our second leg of semester around 6am on February 26th. We all piled into a van with a trailer behind it holding all of our gear and food for our Canadian expedition. Our first stop was at Fort #4, very close to Kroka in New Hampshire, where the Roger’s Rangers plotted the massacre of Abenaki women and children of the St. Francis tribe (Quebec) in 1759. To our disappointment it was locked up, so Luke and Liam tried to find an entry way by climbing to the roof! This was a perfect introduction into our topic of learning on our van ride up, we read The Old American. This book follows the capture of an English settler from Keene, NH, Nathan Blake, by a native American, Caucus-Meteor. Not so coincidentally, their route heading north is almost identical to the route we will take, heading south in the spring. As the sun was setting that night and we were just arriving in the town of our hostel, Manor de Sapins, we stopped and ran down onto the beach of the St. Lawrence. This bea