Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance Stages Annual Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony

LAKE GEORGE — A crowd of nearly 100 people attended the Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance’s annual Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony on May 27. 

The event was staged at the burial site in the park of four unknown soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Lake George in 1755. 

The keynote speaker for the event was retired US Army Brigadier General F. David Sheppard, a Vietnam veteran who rose to become the Deputy Adjutant General of the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs and, subsequently, the Director of the State’s Office of Homeland Security. 

Other speakers at the event included Pastor Ali Trowbridge, Caldwell Presbyterian Church, and Bruce M. Venter, historian and Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance Trustee. The program also included tributes by the Lake George Volunteer Fire Department, Lake George American Legion Post 374, and re-enactors representing Fort William Henry. The program concluded with the traditional playing of “Taps” by Lake George Junior-Senior High School Music Director Amy Baker.