Wyrick named superintendent of Fort Stanwix monument

Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY)

National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Kevin Wyrick as the superintendent of Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome. Wyrick currently serves as chief of operations at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, where he oversees law enforcement and emergency services, interpretation and education, resource stewardship and management and administration. Wyrick will begin his new assignment later this summer.

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