Dry Tortugas National Park Is Deep In History, Natural Beauty
17 July, 2012
Fort Jefferson occupies one of the seven islands in the Dry Tortugas National Park, in the Florida Keys
FAITH LAPIDUS: I’m Faith Lapidus.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m Christopher Cruise with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit one of the most unusual national parks in the United States. It is called the Dry Tortugas National Park. It includes seven very small islands about two-hundred kilometers southwest of the southern state of Florida. One of them was once a prison. Let us begin our visit by imagining that we are traveling back in time almost one hundred fifty years.
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FAITH LAPIDUS: It is the last few days of July in eighteen sixty five. The United States Navy steamship “Florida” moves slowly toward a small island. Members of the crew tie the ship to the dock. Passengers begin to leave the ship. They move slowly in the extreme heat of the summer day. In front of them is a huge red brick building.
The passengers walk over a small wooden bridge. It crosses an area of water that circles the huge building. They move slowly to the only door. They pass through the door and stop in front of a group of soldiers.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: An officer among the soldiers comes forward and tells the ship’s passengers to stop. He looks at the passengers and says, “You are now within the walls of the Fort Jefferson Military Prison in the Dry Tortugas. You have been tried, convicted and sentenced to serve your punishment here.
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