{"id":179,"date":"2010-01-10T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:25:04","slug":"diary-of-1880%e2%80%99s-fort-mackinac-boy-tweeted-daily-beginning-january-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mackinacblog.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Diary of 1880\u2019s Fort Mackinac Boy Tweeted Daily Beginning January 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/userfiles\/image\/Book%20Covers\/Boy%20at%20Fort%20Mackinac.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 5px\" width=\"220\" \/>Beginning Friday, January 14, the diary of  10-year-old Harold Dunbar Corbusier, started on the same date in 1883,  will be tweeted every day by Mackinac State Historic Parks from the feed  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BOYatFtMackinac\" target=\"_blank\">@BOYatFtMACKINAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The diary, published by The Corbusier Archives and Mackinac State Historic Parks as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/history\/index.aspx?l=0,1,4,36,398,399\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Boy at Fort Mackinac: The Diary of Harold Dunbar Corbusier, 1883-1884, 1892<\/em><\/a>,  recounts the daily fun, chores, work, and adventures of the second of  five sons of Fort Mackinac Post Surgeon Dr. William Corbusier and Fanny  Dunbar Corbusier.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1880s, when Harold kept his diary of life at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/fort-mackinac\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Mackinac<\/a>,  the island was a Victorian traveler\u2019s paradise.\u00a0 Visitors from across  the Great Lakes journeyed to the island on elegant passenger steamboats,  and the soldiers at the fort were the caretakers of Mackinac National  Park, the second national park in the United States.\u00a0It was a time of  exploration, elegance, and entertainment for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Harold and his family lived in quarters on the west end of the fort,  today\u2019s \u201cMajor\u2019s Quarters.\u201d\u00a0It was here where Harold began his diary on  his tenth birthday, which gives us a unique and illuminating view of  children\u2019s lives in a late nineteenth-century military post.<\/p>\n<p>Harold\u2019s two-year stay on the island ended on September 30, 1884.\u00a0He  and his family returned to Mackinac Island in the summer of 1892 when  his father accompanied a detachment of the 18th Infantry from Detroit  during a target practice encampment.\u00a0Even during this time, he kept his  diary close at hand, but now the entries were longer and focused on  young ladies and dances rather than the amusements of a ten year old.\u00a0He  left the island for the last time on August 6, 1892.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years later, in August 1992, Harold\u2019s grandson, Warren  O\u2019Brien, visited Fort Mackinac and piqued the interest of fort  historians when he spoke of the diary.\u00a0In response, <em>A Boy at Fort Mackinac <\/em>was published, revealing the clever insights of a child on Mackinac Island.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow Mackinac State Historic Parks on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mshp\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter at @MSHP<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mackinac-State-Historic-Parks\/98006400401?ref=s\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MackinacSHP\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mshp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinacparks.com\/media\/index.aspx?l=0,1,18,308,1053\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Visit Mackinac State Historic Parks Website &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beginning Friday, January 14, the diary of  10-year-old Harold Dunbar Corbusier, started on the same date in 1883,  will be tweeted every day by Mackinac State Historic Parks from the feed  @BOYatFtMACKINAC.\nThe diary, published by The Corbusier Archives and Mackinac State Historic Parks as A Boy at Fort Mackinac: The Diary of 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