		tanddjohnson	nice picture. welcome aboard.
		sharonroom222	nice shot. Is he giving a tour?
		rdale1	Welcome Jon. I liked your Bio.
		JonKranz	Thank you, everyone! Ted's a professor at the Naval War College (Newport) and an expert in seacoast fortifications; in the photo, he's leading a tour of Fort Adams for attendees of the 2004 Society for Industrial Archeology national conference. While the above photo looks like a lot of blank green space, it does convey something of the enormity of the fort, one of the largest the US ever constructed. On Ted's right, you can see some of the casemates intended to hold artillery; more canon would