<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/0712-lake-george-research.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Unearthing an 18th-century smallpox hospital</title><author>Tory Abbott '23 and Anesu Mukombiwa '24</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>07/12/2024 04:35:03 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Lily Whelden ’25 and Cerys Forster ’26 dug into their summer research, applying creative thinking to uncover the history of a Revolutionary War-era hospital in Lake George.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/0712-lake-george-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Lily Whelden ’25 sifts debris during the team's excavation of Lake George Battlefield Park."/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/0712-lake-george-hero-2.jpg" alt="Cerys Forster ’26 and Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology Siobhan Hart work with a volunteer to excavate a site in Lake George Battlefield Park."/></image><caption>Cerys Forster ’26 (left) and Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology Siobhan Hart (right) work with a volunteer to excavate artifacts from the site of a Revolutionary War-era smallpox hospital in Lake George Battlefield Park.</caption></item>