(Reuters) - Accenture said on Tuesday that Angie Park, currently leading its Business and Commercial Finance division, will take on the role of the company's CFO on Dec. 1, replacing KC McClure.
Fort Cornwallis’ northern wall with cannon emplacements along with lighthouse and flagstaff in the northeast quadrant. — Filepic
A key component is the Fort Cornwallis Storage Rooms Museology project, which will see 10 disused bunkers along the fort’s southern wall converted into museum and exhibition spaces. She is part of an excavating team at the fort since 2018, primarily to restore the south and west moats which were filled in the 1920s to curb a malaria outbreak.
Other notable artefacts were cannonballs, which weight surprised many visitors who attempted to pick them up. There were also coins from circa 1780, as they bore images of King George III who reigned from 1760 to 1820. She said the biggest thrill was when they unearthed a pair of cannons near the fort’s outer defensive structures.
Think City managing director Hamdan Abdul Majeed said, “The overall Fort Cornwallis project exemplifies our ground-up approach to urban revitalisation. “Some of the most interesting anecdotes included people coming to touch the Seri Rambai cannon, a ritual which was believed to aid fertility,” he said of the fort’s most famous artillery piece, which was believed to have been cast in the early 1600s.The “A Day at the Fort” event also featured several hands-on activities for children, including a Young Archaeologist Programme.Here, they learned what it was like to peel back the layers of history.
“Fort Cornwallis played an important role in Penang’s history and we want to keep people abreast of the works that are currently being done to restore it,” said Cheong. “People often say that history is boring, but when you make it engaging and fun like this, children will be drawn to it,” she opined.
There was also a Creative Jam where young visitors got to put their own touches to paper mache sculptures of the fort. Their handiwork might also be placed among future exhibits. It was built on the northeastern tip of Penang island, close to where Light was said to have first come ashore after taking possession of the island.
A 22m-tall lighthouse was erected in 1882 and remains the second oldest lighthouse in Malaysia. A flagstaff, almost twice as tall, was added sometime later and used as a means of communication with another outpost on Penang Hill. The disused bunkers that are to become the museum, were previously used to store arms, gunpowder and projectiles.As the fort evolved over time, there are successive layers of history embedded at the site.
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