Fort McHenry

Oh, say can you see?

We’ll go On the Record with Fort McHenry’s new assistant superintendent. Who were the African-American soldiers and sailors who held off British invaders in 1814? Plus, a novel way to trade ideas on oral history and historic preservation.

We’re about a week away from marking 208 years since the British bombarded Fort McHenry and failed to capture it--just one of many stories brought to life for visitors by the Fort McHenry Guard. We talk to one of the park rangers who founded the Guard forty years ago, and a young volunteer.

Say “Fort McHenry,” and we think of the men who braved “the bombs bursting in air” in 1814 … and the man inspired by the flag that waved … to write the…