Photo Focus: Ram Head Dedication Expands the Fortsberg History Trail

About 40 hearty souls braved moody skies and a rocky climb to watch history unfold Sunday on St. John. They came to witness the unveiling of a historic plaque designating Ram Head overlook as a part of the Fortsberg history trail.

The hike began at Salt Pond Beach along Route 107, leading down to a rocky shoreline, then up… up… up… to the top of a hilly trail nine-tenths of a mile away. National Park Service Interpreter Ahmad Toure welcomed those who gathered at the top around noon. He told them that one of his first duties after arriving on St. John was planting the sign at the top of Ram Head. “Too often, events like this — too often our enslaved people — are talked about in a diminishing manner about the things they have accomplished and did accomplish that allow us who have descended from them to be here today,” Toure said.