tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64500877393179694892024-03-05T05:56:14.366-05:00Child of a Frosty Morning: Musings of a Well-Traveled SouthernerCarolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-4650338557710333322017-11-28T14:42:00.001-05:002017-11-28T14:42:56.013-05:00Saturday at the beach: dog day afternoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-64688009736885575982017-10-13T15:11:00.002-04:002017-10-13T15:11:46.899-04:00In the Storm so Long<div style="text-align: center;">
No doubt, I fell off a cliff in late July. Can't even say what all the triggers were, but several were pulled, and I fell. And so I once again find myself on the long slope, coming up from the abyss. As I've climbed, I've turned to my camera for solace, exploring old and new subjects. And, as always, I've held fast to living, breathing nature as sustenance for the journey. So I thought I would share a few glimpses of light from the long night that was the Dog Days:</div>
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This little girl came to visit SO often in August and September!</div>
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This happened! Quite a surprise to see Mom and the brood out back</div>
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Of course this happened, too! Bug learning to walk again</div>
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Beautiful mums from our dear cousins</div>
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Lots of flutterbys this summer</div>
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Heather and the Impatiens were a big hit!</div>
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I am obsessed with her...</div>
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Hey girl! She LOVED our morning glory vine.</div>
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Flutterby</div>
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Verbena Lantana is still blooming</div>
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This pic has been a big hit on social media.</div>
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Ms. Pinky getting loved up!</div>
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Obsessed...</div>
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Convalescing Bug...</div>
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Increasingly I have turned to the sky, seeking solace...</div>
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My old flame Cassiopeia</div>
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Pinky!</div>
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Our hanging baskets have done very well: petunias</div>
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Moon and oak leaves</div>
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Baritone Moon</div>
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The Northern Sky, filled with familiar constellations</div>
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From right to left, Cassiopeia (modern form in blue, old form in red); Cephus, King of Aethiopia, husband to Cassiopeia, father to Andromeda; the Little Dipper, dipping toward the horizon.</div>
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I think it might be time to mow again (we had a three-week dry spell)</div>
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Our little Vinca has thrived!</div>
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Blousy petunias...</div>
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Ms Rita and her pet weed</div>
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And of course, Ms Pinky Two-tone Geranium...</div>
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We are moving toward my birth sign, Scorpio. I have described myself as forever autumn (a brilliant song from War of the Worlds, btw). Like autumn, I am filled with equal parts beauty and sadness and doubt and hope. Yes, I am a spendid season, but brace yourselves, winter is coming. With shortened days comes doubt and sadness, with the cold comes pain. But the winter sky, with my old friend Orion presiding, and the promise of rebirth in the spring, give me sustaining hope. May these images from my new home give you solace, wherever they may find you, in these troublesome times.</div>
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I leave you with a soulful video of autumns past, up in Ohio:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZInALmxT9U&t=4s" target="_blank">Autumn in Ohio, 2013</a></div>
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<br />Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-77781433114008871452017-06-14T20:08:00.000-04:002017-06-14T20:18:26.382-04:00Flag Day Floral Fireworks...Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This date marks the 240th anniversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the United States national flag. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved that this be our new nation's symbol. Today, our flowers put on quite a show for the grand old flag! Without further comment:</div>
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One of the hardest aspects of moving south when we did was that we had to leave behind so many flowers! In retrospect, I planned poorly, and of course weather did not cooperate, it being February in Ohio and all... So I can only hope that someone else will enjoy our day lilies, our daisies, our fledgling hibiscus, and our knockout rose, not to mention the Rose of Sharon bushes along the back fence. Sigh. But we remain committed to having beauty in our lives and yard, and so we start over.</div>
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First came the bougainvillea from our local hardware...we will try to winter it inside and enjoy it again next year!</div>
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It has thrived despite lots of rain, and it gets the attention of hummingbirds.</div>
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For nectaring critters, we added these blousey petunias early on, and they continue to prosper!</div>
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And what kind of southerner doesn't have an azalea? This one is now planted out front. We hope to plant one a year for the next few years to fill in a vacant bed. This one will tell us if we need to make changes to the bed. So far, so good...</div>
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We added this delightful basket of petunias, as well.</div>
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I have spotted a little male ruby-throat checking it out!</div>
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And of course we brought our babygirl geraniums!</div>
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The oh, so sexy Ms. Rita Red</div>
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And our darling Ms. Pinky Two-tone, the original pet geranium!</div>
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Actually, hummingbirds like our geraniums, too!</div>
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Our girls make us smile, and they are bustin' out all over these days!</div>
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All these lovelies are out front where they get plenty of sun.</div>
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As the resident flora came to life this spring, I saw that we had day-lilies in the ditch above our drive. The first to open was this gaudy thing!</div>
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And now these are opening!!! We are beyond thrilled with them.</div>
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They remind us that new beginnings are hard</div>
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But becoming who we are is a beautiful thing.</div>
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Out back, the signature feature on our lot is the presence of two beautiful white oaks, probably more than a quarter-century old.</div>
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Our lot also has an inordinate amount of rock beds. They are not unattractive when gassed with weed killer (I'm more into whacking and pulling), but really, how many rock beds does one need? So I am determined to convert this one out front into a wildflower garden...sometime...maybe.</div>
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As a start, I removed 3 dozen rocks from that little bed...and couldn't notice much of an impact...sigh. But those three dozen rocks served to built this bed, into which went 3 bags of soil and, though only 30 or so had been placed above, 3 dozen assorted impatiens!</div>
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Of course our dear Heather D. Sheep came with us to NC, and she has found the perfect summer spot for chillaxing! The soil is settling down nicely, and so are we. Now if I could only invent a true squirrel-proof feeder for my cardinals and titmice and such...</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To say we are moody these days is an understatement. Everyday life is just plain hard work. We continue to struggle with the long wait until surgery. TBH, we thought it might be a situation of "we've got to get you scanned and prepped asap!" But we do understand. There are so many demands, and we have the best surgeon and team for which we could hope. But seeing my wife of more than 26 years unable to walk without a walker and even then walking is iffy...that makes one moody. Our day yesterday was a classic example: we got up, got her in the car, and drove for over an hour to the MRI facility the surgeon needed to do her latest scan. She was on a lot of meds, which was good because she didn't get twitchy and the scan went fine. Once we got home, she crashed for a couple of hours. Then we went from tired and grumpy to celebratory as we partied with family and friends (meaning we ate a lot of bbq...this IS NC, after all) in honor of several high school graduates. But the meds wore off, so we came home and it was early to bed. My Bug, who REFUSES not to do as much as she can, got up early this morning and drove herself to a care facility where she played the piano for her father, her aunt, and her soon to be step-mother so they could sing good ol' hymns to the residents. That's my wife, folks. Tough as a pine knot once you get down to her core. Many a man in a position of authority could learn a thing or two....who am I kidding, an ENCYCLOPEDIA full of stuff...from women with such grit. But this post is not about politics or pain...it is about finding beauty and continuing to believe that better days will come and, even if they don't, nature will find a way to persist. Today we drove to our beloved Blue Ridge mountains to check on the progress of the Catawba Rhododendrons up at Craggy Gardens. We were not disappointed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Moody mountains majestic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> So lush with all the rain we've had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Rolling along forever, it seems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even when wet! As we hoped, the "big three" were already in bloom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Let's begin with an Appalachian treasure in and of itself: </span>Rhododendron calendulaceum, the flame azalea!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here mingled with another favorite:</span> Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Aside: we also saw several of these beautiful flowering shrubs...arrowwood, probably, but big!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> And a bonus wild turkey, just strolling down the road...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And of course the real show-stealer every June, </span>Rhododendron catawbiense, our beloved Catawba rhododendron!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> They are opening up in a hurry at Craggy, with peak timed as usual for around the second week in June. They will also be on display up on Grandfather and, of course, Roan Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> They have a short but spectacular season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> One with which we were in harmony for a time, especially when we lived in Weaverville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Now we are close enough that we can visit them again!</span></div>
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Happily, riding in the car, or even driving, causes my Bug no pain. We won't be hiking the Craggy Pinnacle trail anytime soon, but yes, we can visit! All in all, a beautiful day for two souls pining for Appalachian solace.</div>
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Male House Finch.</div>
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Male Northern Cardinal with Mourning Dove lurking.</div>
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Wascally Wild Wabbits!!!</div>
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SO cute!</div>
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Not so cute, but handsome devil...</div>
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White-breasted Nuthatch!</div>
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Grackle.</div>
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Downy Woodpecker!</div>
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Cardinal with seed.</div>
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Chipping Sparrow on tree, Tufted Titmice on suet feeder.</div>
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Bluejay!</div>
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Cardinal! Well, it is baseball season, after all...</div>
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And adorable Eastern Phoebes...</div>
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Can't wait to see the little ones!</div>
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And the "pink" full moon...just past full, actually, but brilliant!</div>
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Life is challenging but good in the shadow of Hog Hill.</div>
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I love our little Carolina Chickadees!</div>
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Ms. Cardinal</div>
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Mr. Cardinal</div>
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We have Eastern Phoebes nesting in our carport!</div>
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They hunt flying things from perches in our Oak trees.</div>
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The Tufted Titmice are so cute and fun to watch.</div>
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Chipper Jones, our pet Chipping Sparrow.</div>
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And overhead, always, the masters of the winds. We not only have lots of Turkey Vultures, we have actual Wild Turkeys in abundance in nearby fields! Hope to get pics of them soon.</div>
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There is also an Occasional Squirrel...obviously she has the good Kung Fu!</div>
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And of course the same Moon...the Moonman abides...<br />
We have returned to the land of our ancestors, so we like to go visit...these are a few snaps from our ride up to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, in the shadow of the South Mountains, southern Burke County, NC.<br />
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My Great-Great Grandparents<br />
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Violets!<br />
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Rackety Kildeer<br />
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And goats...staring at me...<br />
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Carolina Chickadees!</div>
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Soulful Mourning Doves</div>
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Cowbirds, flocking with Grackles as is often the case</div>
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The Moon</div>
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker</div>
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We have a couple of Carolina Chickadees, along with a White-Breasted Nuthatch!</div>
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And this beautiful Cooper's Hawk, checking out the house sparrow buffet</div>
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I've seen as many as six Cardinals at one time!</div>
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Redbird on snow</div>
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Along with the Occasional Squirrel</div>
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Birding at Chez Wallace</div>
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Pop and Mom Cardinal (actually there were LOTS of cardinals)</div>
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Hello, Tufted Titmouse!</div>
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Carolina Chickadee!</div>
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Hello, little bull!</div>
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I love these Belted Galloway cattle!</div>
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Angus mother and child reunion...</div>
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Sheep stare at me...</div>
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I see Ewe staring at me...</div>
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And they bleat at me! Tres Amigas.</div>
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Sheep...bleating and staring...</div>
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Look, an ottoman on the move!</div>
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Ottoman at rest...</div>
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"Um, yes, your wool does make your butt look big..."</div>
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"Well you asked for my opinion!"</div>
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Sheep graze while the Great Pyr that guards them dozes.</div>
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On our way north, we often detour through Max Meadows, VA, to see these sheep!</div>
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The grass is always greener on the other side...</div>
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They are marked as to whether or not they are pregnant</div>
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Hay! This picture makes me laugh, every time.</div>
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Awwww...I love this picture...I hope she's okay.</div>
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Like the ewe above, we all face uncertain times in the coming year. The nation will inaugurate a new president on January 20th, and given the person to be inaugurated, that event will stand in sharp juxtaposition to the day of national remembrance for the martyred Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the cause for which he gave the last full measure of devotion, along with so many other men and women. But we are also reminded that some 230 years ago this coming summer, our founders met in steamy Philadelphia and hammered out a document that still serves as our protective umbrella. As with all umbrellas, it is imperfect. Let's face it...sometimes it rains sideways or even up! Our outgoing president has said many times that we should ever aspire to construct a more perfect union. Perhaps in uncertainty there will be opportunity; in conflict, growth; in chaos, a space for new paradigms to emerge. I stand ever beside Lincoln, who long has challenged me to be not just a more engaged citizen but a better person: "We are not enemies, but friends. We MUST not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it MUST not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they WILL be, by the better angels of our nature." May it be so. </div>
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our annual Christmas poem, from hearts broken by 2016. It is a reminder of the
travails of a certain refugee family long ago, and the fears and woes of our
world today. It is a Christmas lament, written for anyone who feels cast out,
without shelter...anyone whose refuge, whose Zion, was shattered by 2016. Peace
on Earth, good will to all is our fervent prayer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Since we
sent out last year’s poem a number of things happened which made Mike write a
lament for our annual poem. We lost two people in Mike's family (Aunt Helen and
Uncle Barry). We lost Dana's dad’s wife Amy. The head of Dana's department at work died
after a very brief fight against brain cancer. Mike’s school cut several
positions; his was one of them. Our nephew Brandon deployed to Afghanistan. Dana's
priest is retiring next month. And Donald Trump is the new president-elect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And remembered Zion, our refuge</span></b></span></div>
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response to all of that, it feels as if our safe place, our refuge, has been
shattered – we grieve, we wail, we post epic rants on Facebook. And, we decide
to move back to North Carolina, possibly in late winter or early spring. Dana will
keep her same job, and Mike will spend time with his father and replenish his
emotional resources. Whatever 2017 brings, we’ll face it with feet firmly
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">yea, we
wept, when we remembered Zion.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Upon the
willows in the midst thereof</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">we hanged
up our harps. For there they</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">that led
us captive required of us songs,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and they
that wasted us required of us mirth,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">saying,
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ How</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">shall we
sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psalm 137:
1-4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a
season of lament—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Unwed
mother, pregnant, stunned, shunned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Older
tradesman viewed with cynical suspicion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As he
cares for the living vessel of Presence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Zion
shattered, they cling to each other and God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a
season of great worry—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">New
accounting, and, always, taxes to be paid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Difficult
journeys to be taken and retaken</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">With no
clear vision of what the future holds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Quo
vadis? Where are you going? Do you know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a
season of homelessness—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In one
fell day, secure shelters can vanish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cast off,
adrift, wandering, we wonder…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Many of
us feel mocked, displaced, rejected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Is there
room for us at the tables being set?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a
season of faith leaps—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A weary
couple seeking a new life, yet again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Together
struggling with the real, hard now,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet ever
walking hand in hand the road</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Before
them, delicate steps, but walking still.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Have
faith in this season of uncertainty—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By
strange waters we have sat down and wept,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All of
us, as we have mourned unsettling loss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Our
refuge shattered, we were unable to sing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But in
time, we each fetched our harps. Amen!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We SHALL
overcome…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mike
& Dana</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Christmas
2016</span></span>Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-55085146412054198502016-12-13T18:27:00.000-05:002016-12-13T18:27:40.026-05:00Fluffy Snow, Cardinal Couple and a Poem from Days Gone By<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alone, awash
amidst this sea of spruce<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And pine
I sit. Into the rising fog<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I gaze as if
to see some mystic realm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Enchantment
drew me to this holy hill<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By promising
a glimpse of heaven's bliss,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But haze and
heavy clouds obscure my view.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The gloom,
my doom it is, I think, to see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is it
like to dream of future days<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And not of
nightmares past? The wintry blasts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Come howling
through my brain. Yet on the winds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of pain a
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Someday the
snow will fall and bury all<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My shame
beneath its pristine flow, and I<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will know at
last a season of new hope.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-11255787916117624292016-11-28T07:00:00.000-05:002016-11-28T07:00:16.625-05:00Monday Miscellany: Of Sheep and Men<div style="text-align: center;">
You will recall from The Bug's <a href="http://danabugseyeview.blogspot.com/2016/11/lake-cumberland.html" target="_blank">post</a> that our pre-Thanksgiving holiday included a visit here:<br />
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Beautiful Lake Cumberland, Kentucky<br />
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Where we stayed in the Lure Lodge at Lake Cumberland State Resort Park<br />
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And saw signs (Sun Dog!)<br />
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After our long <a href="http://childofafrostymorning.blogspot.com/2016/11/reverse-migration-through-cumberland-gap.html" target="_blank">ramble</a> from the lodge to Hickory, NC, we visited with family over Thanksgiving, which in my case involved spending time with my father and brother, as well as spending time with The Bug's clan. We were a bit tense going in...The Bug and I stood at odds with many of our relatives this election. We could not comprehend how they could vote for that man, and they could not comprehend how we could vote for that woman. I must say that I felt all parties made an heroic effort to put aside the late unpleasantness and celebrate our love, one for another. For that and many other blessings, we give thanks!</div>
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In the season when being one of the "deplorables" became a badge of honor, when much venom has been spewed and many of us look to the future with fear and loathing, this meme made me laugh out loud.</div>
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From left to right, Pop, my bro, and me...from a few years ago on Thanksgiving at my brother's house.</div>
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This Thanksgiving I had dinner with The Bug's clan in the fellowship hall of a local church. We posed for our annual picture in their sanctuary, and I of course LOVED this window!</div>
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And a fine clan it is! (Seriously, a Scottish surname, Tartan and all...)</div>
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I spent much of Wednesday and Friday here at my father's house with Pop and bro. In the days of his youth, my Pop helped his cousin build this house for my grandparents (I wasn't even a twinkle in his eye at that time). Now it is his nest, as long as he can manage to live on his own. Thankfully, when he turned 80 he figured he had best stop burning wood for heat, so he had gas heat installed. Up until then, he carried in all his own firewood. We were much relieved to get him to make that call!</div>
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I love to drive past this Lincoln County farm on my way to and from my father's house!</div>
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These Belted Galloway cattle are wonderful!</div>
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I've been taking pics of this Great Pyr for a number of years now.</div>
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More belted cattle.</div>
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And little donkeys!</div>
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SO cute!</div>
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And sheep!</div>
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I have a thing for sheep, you know...</div>
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The Bug's sister-in-law customized this wonderful travel mug for me!</div>
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I do confess the red clay of Lincoln County calls to me...beckoning me to return to the county my ancestors founded, to the place we have called home for nigh unto 250 years. Someday, red clay, you and I will again commune, if only to grow geraniums and such...</div>
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Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-55355338099710665632016-11-23T12:34:00.000-05:002016-11-23T12:42:32.915-05:00Reverse Migration through Cumberland Gap<div style="text-align: center;">
On Sunday we headed south to Kentucky and took the scenic HWY 127 all the way to Lake Cumberland. At one point as we were driving through the state capital of Frankfort, we were simultaneously on HWY 127 South and HWY 421 North while heading west past the Buffalo Trace Distillery. Going south and north at the same time while heading west with bourbon close at hand...that pretty much sums up Antebellum Kentucky! In any event, we spent two wonderful days on Lake Cumberland (I'm sure The Bug will tell you about it). </div>
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Wolf Creek Dam, Lake Cumberland</div>
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Cumberland Falls, Daniel Boone National Forest</div>
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Tuesday we headed east, then southeast, bound for Hickory, NC to spend time with our families. We took South 25E through Cumberland Gap, stopping for a break at the Cumberland Gap National Park. We had driven through some smoke earlier, and apparently a smaller fire is burning north of Pineville, but at the Gap, the air was clear and the sun warm. The ranger told us it would be a splendid day to go up to the Pinnacle overlook, so we did!</div>
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You are probably familiar with the Gap as the original land route into Kaintuck, discovered by Dr. Thomas Walker and improved by Daniel Boone. Bingham's painting from the 1850s is an iconic portrayal of Anglo-American westward expansion.</div>
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In time and with improvements, the old Cumberland Trace became the Wilderness Road.</div>
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Heading up to the Pinnacle overlook...forest fire north of Pikeville, wherein is located Cumberland Ford, a favorable spot for travelers to cross the Cumberland River.</div>
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Internet image of a sign I never seem able to stop and photograph...</div>
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Union soldiers passing through Cumberland Gap, Harpers Weekly, October 10, 1863</div>
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The Bug says, "Everywhere we go there is a cannon!" Yup.</div>
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The Bug at McCook's Battery, one of the batteries securing the Gap for the Union</div>
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View of Martin's Fork Lake from the Pinnacle Trail</div>
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Fort Lyon, high above the Gap, named for Nathaniel Lyon, the first American general to die in battle since the War of 1812! He would be followed by many, many more ere the Civil War was over</div>
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The euphemistically named "Pinnacle Rock"</div>
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Onward and Upward to the Ft. Lyon overlook</div>
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Earthworks! And my shadow taking this picture</div>
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Looking up at Ft. Lyon earthworks</div>
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Looking up toward Ft. Lyon from the Pinnacle overlook</div>
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Late autumn color, looking down into Tennessee</div>
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Looking back toward Pikeville</div>
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There are other "pinnacle" formations...The Bug thinks this is a sea horse</div>
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Heading into the tunnel from Kentucky</div>
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Such a magnificent day! Our drive from Cumberland Gap to Greeneville, TN was truly beautiful, despite the horrible drought conditions along the way. The drive from there to Weaverville, in the dark along a winding mountain road that only I would have taken (it was the shortest route to Asheville), was...an adventure. As we descended toward Asheville, we were again reminded of the devastating forest fires in our beloved southern Appalachians. Godspeed to all that fight them. Stay safe and thank you! Many of these brave folks will spend Thanksgiving in the trenches, fighting to contain fires in a literal tinderbox. Many others, like our nephew, are about as far from home as one can imagine, fighting the global war on terror. May they know they are loved and thanked for their service. Remember to duck, Doc! With love and hope for a brighter future, somehow, someway, and with gratitude to be alive and kicking, even if it is the wall,<br />
your Dr. L/M, always.</div>
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<br />Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-44046140347624247722016-11-06T20:11:00.000-05:002016-11-06T20:11:12.368-05:00Beauty Trumps Ugliness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
There is much beauty in this strange Autumn that wasn't...normally I would be posting pics of dried up corn, deer, bean fields being harvested...not this year. I post the beauty that has brought comfort on these warm fall days. It is enough...it must be in this most ugly political season.</div>
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committed by Americans against Americans and celebrated as spectacle. I
share it because we all too easily forget in a post 9/11 world just how
abusive we have been and, arguably, continue to be to non-Caucasian
Americans. I grow weary with all the mock patriotism, all the
genuflecting to icons of America that, really, do not deserve to be
worshiped. Dana's family and my family have given much blood to the <span class="text_exposed_show">causes
of this nation, but neither of us flinch from acknowledging our
transgressions. So if you don't have the stomach for viewing these
images, fine, but don't lecture me about how "black" people need to
respect the flag and the anthem. They lived for generations without
sanctuary in this country. IMHO, you might want to cut a brother or
sister some slack? Food for thought:</span><br />
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On our way back from Delaware, we stopped at Fort Necessity...the place where the French and Indian War began, though it took awhile for Europe to erupt into the Seven Years' War. And at the heart of it all? G. Washington, a brash young Virginia militia officer barely in his 20s. The story goes something like this: The royal governor of Virginia and a group of investors known as the Ohio Company had keen interest in the area that is now part of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Specifically, they were interested in the upper Ohio Valley. They set up a base of operations at what is now the city of Cumberland, Maryland. In 1750, the Ohio Company sent Christopher Gist (at that time a neighbor of Daniel Boone's down in the Yadkin River Valley of North Carolina) to explore the area. On his first trip, he traveled the Ohio all the way to its falls at present-day Louisville, then headed back overland. On his second trip, he explored the area in which the drama of Fort Necessity would play out.</div>
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In late 1753, Gist again headed to the Ohio Valley, this time as a lieutenant of militia accompanying young Lieutenant Colonel George Washington on a diplomatic mission. The French had been aggressively expanding their presence up the Ohio and down the Allegheny in what is today Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, then generally referred to as the Ohio Country. Several British colonies had tried to establish claim to the area, but the French disputed any such British claims. Thus the Royal Governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie, sent Washington up the Allegheny to tell the French to bugger off. In the process, as the story goes, Gist twice saved Washington's life, the first time from a Native American assailant and the second when Washington fell off a raft into the frigid waters of the Allegheny. The Virginia delegation delivered its message, but it had little influence on the French, who not only refused to leave, but reportedly taunted the silly English knights with the words "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries"...that is, the French, instead of leaving, continued to build forts, tightening their grip on the valuable Ohio country and the all-important Allegheny and Ohio river system.</div>
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Washington and Gist crossing the Allegheny on a raft (Public Domain)</div>
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And so it came to pass that, in early summer, 1754, Washington and Gist were again united. The issue was control of the forks of the Ohio. If the British could build a fort that dominated the place where the Allegheny and Monongahela converged, then they could deny the French up the Allegheny use of the Ohio as a commercial waterway. Also, they could begin settling the Monongahela River Valley, etc. The demand for farmland on the frontier had greatly increased as growing numbers of German-speakers and Ulster Irish came to the colonies seeking opportunity and/or escape from desperate circumstances back in Europe. The Ohio Company worked in cooperation with Dinwiddie to begin construction of a fort at the forks, to be named Fort Prince George, while Gist remained at the settlement he had founded near present-day Uniontown, PA, in conjunction with the Ohio Company. But the French got word of their shenanigans and sent an overwhelming force to taunt the English a second time. As the small party of workers at Fort Prince George had no chance of winning a fight with a force at least 15 times their strength, they accepted the French rebuke and surrendered. The French sent the Virginians home, then knocked down the Company's handiwork and began construction of what they named Fort Duquesne.</div>
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The French plans for Fort Duquesne were quite elaborate, as opposed to the small outpost fort the Ohio Company had been building. After all, this was a vital river confluence. But their decision to build at the point of the confluence, as opposed to building on high ground overlooking the confluence, meant that all their work would be wasted if a large British force came calling and gained control of the high ground across the Monongahela. But really, that is another story, connected to this one only because the French weren't the only ones who chose less than suitable ground for a fort.</div>
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Model of Fort Duquesne complex (Wikipedia)</div>
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Regarding now Colonel Washington of the newly formed Virginia Regiment of back-country militia, well, he was assigned to oversee construction of an 80 mile road northwest from Fort Cumberland, past Gist Plantation, and on to Redstone Creek and the Monongahela. From there supplies could be ferried to the ill-fated Fort Prince George. He began work, but in short order events changed dramatically. First, well, the French came and knocked down the fort to which he was building a road. Second, as Washington was working his way through the Alleghenies, he received word from the leader of the ill-fated fort-building expedition that the French were scouting in the area. Undaunted, Washington decided to establish a British presence in the area and await the arrival of his superior, Joshua Fry, and the bulk of the Regiment from Fort Cumberland. On May 24th, he found an open space, called Great Meadows, less than 40 miles from Fort Duquesne, which seemed an inviting place for a forward encampment. There was fresh water, an alpine meadow in which to set up tents, let the horses feed, etc. It was a nice place for an encampment, but like Fort Duquesne, had vulnerabilities: the spot he had chosen lay in a soggy bowl, surrounded by forested hills.</div>
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Three days later, Washington received word from Christopher Gist of a French scouting party less than ten miles from the Great Meadows encampment. He and about 40 of his frontiersmen set off for the camp of a friendly Seneca chief, Tanacharison, whom the Virginians called the Half King. Half King's scouts led Washington to the ravine where the French party had camped, and that's when things get really muddled. The Virginians said that a French soldier fired the first shot. The French said that they were attacked at dawn with no warning. Mind you, Washington had been told by Governor Dinwiddie not to do anything that might ignite a war. The whole purpose for Fort Prince George had been defensive. The French had politely let the Ohio Company workers go home. No harm, no foul, as they say in basketball....until the morning of May 28, 1754.</div>
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A detachment of French soldiers, led by Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville, had been sent out to locate Washington and determine whether or not he had invaded French territory. I am conflating French soldiers with Canadian recruits here...there were both in Jumonville's company, because a difference which makes no difference is no difference. The Virginians represented British interests, the Canadians represented French interests. So there. Anyway...whatever happened to start the fighting, accounts agree that the battle was over quickly and that the thirty-plus man French unit had been overwhelmed, with almost all being either killed or captured, or assassinated, or some combination of the above. I do not mock the dead here...it's just that the various accounts differ as to what really happened. Washington tersely reported that his company advanced toward the French camp, they were spotted, and the shooting started. He noted that Jumonville, the French commander, was killed in the brief engagement, along with nine other Frenchmen. He counted one Frenchman wounded and twenty-one prisoners taken. His own losses were one killed and two wounded.</div>
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One of the Frenchmen got away and reported back to the French commander at Fort Duquesne. He stated that, while he had not seen Jumonville die, he had been there when the fighting started. He said that the glen was surrounded by the Virginians on one side and Native Americans on the other. He noted that the Virginians had fired two volleys into the French camp, but the Native Americans had not fired. Jumonville then called for a cease fire so he could read the summons he carried, ordering the Virginians to vacate French territory. A second source, a Native American, recounted to the French commander that it had been while Jumonville was reading the summons that he was shot in the head by one of the Virginians. At that point, he said he and his party rushed forward to protect the Frenchmen from being butchered by the Virginians.</div>
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The French based their next actions on what they knew from these two witnesses. After the fact, one of Washington's privates, John Shaw, gave a sworn statement that, based on what he had learned from those who participated in the attack, the Virginians had approached the camp at dawn, that their Native American scouts had circled around to the other side, and that one of the Frenchmen, hearing or seeing something, had fired the first shot. Washington then ordered his militia to fire, and the French, some of whom were still in their blankets, were overwhelmed. The ones who tried to flee were cut off by the Native Americans, and so they reportedly ran back and surrendered to Washington. At that point, according to Private Shaw, the Half King and his warriors approached the probably wounded Jumonville. Half King reportedly asked someone standing guard if the man before him was English or French, and upon learning he was French, he split Jumonville's head open with a tomahawk and did a couple of other things I'll leave out. Mind you, Shaw did not see any of this. He got his intel by talking to those who had participated in the battle.</div>
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Washington, believing that the French would come for him in force, rushed back to Great Meadows and ordered the construction of what he would call Fort Necessity. A few days later, he got word that Joshua Fry had fallen off his horse and died of his injuries. The 22-year-old Colonel Washington was now in command of the entire Virginia Regiment.Washington's men set to work digging outer trenches and building an inner "keep" of logs, with a surrounding stockade. On a cleared hill, these defenses would have proven useful, but in the meadow, not so much. A major problem was the high water table. Even in dry weather, the ground is soggy and even swampy in many places. And when it rains, well, there's nowhere for the water to go. And it rains a lot in the Alleghenies in summer.</div>
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With about 300 Virginians and roughly 100 South Carolina militia, Washington felt secure enough to continue working on the road toward Gist Plantation, as the frontier settlement was called. But in late June, the French and their Native American allies finally sallied forth from Fort Duquesne, led by Jumonville's older half-brother, Louis Coulon de Villiers. Washington had failed to secure the support of the Half King and others, so his band of about 400 would have to hold out against at least 600 French troops and around 100 Native American warriors. Still, he had the advantage of defense, and an open meadow with a clear field of fire...or so he thought. His men worked frantically as the French approached, improving the trenches in an effort to gain more protection.</div>
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Washington hoped for a direct attack, which he was suitably prepared to repel. Instead, the savvy French fired a few volleys then took up positions in the woods, choosing to fire from cover and keep Washington's force pinned down. A steady rain proved to be the final undoing of the young Colonel. The French could remain relatively sheltered in the trees and keep up sporadic fire, inflicting casualties. Washington's men lay in trenches that filled with water, their powder got soaked, and though the rounds they did fire occasionally found their mark, by the end of the day the Virginians had taken more casualties, and both sides knew Washington's position was untenable. The French commander called for a truce to discuss terms, and Washington reluctantly accepted.</div>
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Although the French initially hoped this had been a decisive victory, British rumblings began almost immediately. The Virginians under Fry and Washington had failed, so if diplomacy failed to resolve the Fort Duquesne issue, British Regulars would be dispatched to the frontier to drive back the French. Diplomacy failed, and both Britain and France rushed soldiers to North America. A big part of the reason negotiations failed seems to have been reports regarding a certain Virginia militia commander and his actions regarding the "diplomat" de Jumonville. So in the end the British chose the military option, invading Acadia and staging an army out of Virginia to deal with the French in the Ohio Country. At the same time, other European powers were moving to a war footing, forging alliances with either Britain or France when it benefited them.<br />
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Sixty year old General Braddock, veteran of numerous European campaigns, would lead the push into the back country, improving on Washington's route of advance by building a proper wagon road, with the intent of capturing Fort Duquesne. The British also planned to attack the forts up the Allegheny. In April 1755, Braddock began his advance with a force of about 2400 Regulars, supported by colonial militia, which he didn't intend to use if he could help it. No, the Regulars and this very experienced field commander would deal with the French. Growing impatient with the tedious road improvement project, Braddock split his force, choosing to advance with about 1300 men while the rest continued to work on the road and follow as fast as they could. Still, Braddock had twice the number of men the French could field, and he brought some of his artillery with him. His lead column made it to within eight miles of Fort Duquesne. They would go no further. What they initially thought to be a delaying force of French turned out to be a clever tactic to draw Braddock into a trap. As the French units blocking the trail slowed the column's advance, combined forces of French and their Native American allies enveloped it. The resulting battle on July 9, 1775, proved catastrophic for Braddock and his men.</div>
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And what of young George Washington, now all of 23? He had become a very controversial figure after his surrender at Fort Necessity. He had signed terms that were ambiguous to him, both because they were in French and because they were a wet mess from the rain. He had to rely on an interpreter, and his interpreter had to try to read the final document, ink smears and all. The result is that, once again, multiple accounts emerged. While the British were disinclined to give Washington an officer's commission in the Regular Army, they thought that he had been accorded the honors of war by the French after his surrender, and so he and his men were welcomed back to Virginia by the governor. </div>
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But the French eventually raised a ruckus about young George. They said he was a fugitive from justice, as he had signed a confession stating that he took full responsibility for the assassination of Jumonville! Therefore the Royal Governor of Virginia was guilty of harboring a fugitive. It makes for interesting reading and surely gave the French some justification for going to war, but it is likely that by 1756 Europe would have erupted anyway, and surely North America would still have been a major theater of that war. Still,tradionally this is the sort of international incident that could ignite another war between Britain and France, with every other major European power save the Ottomans joining in. The unresolved conflicts in Europe, coupled with Atlantic trade policies, the North American back country, Caribbean sugar islands, African outposts, and even contested holdings as far away as India and the Phillippines, would lead to what some have called the Great War for Empire.</div>
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General Braddock, though he could not give him a commission, took Washington along as an advisor with no official capacity, and it was Washington who managed to rally the remnants of Braddock's column and begin a retreat. Before they reached Great Meadows, Braddock died of his wounds. Washington chose to bury him in the middle of the road, and then he and the remnant of Braddock's column intentionally marched over the grave to hide it and thus thwart potential desecration. By 1756, the world, as Europeans understood it, was aflame in what Churchill much later called the first world war: The Seven Years' War. If Washington had not necessarily detonated the powder keg of war, he had managed to strike the spark that lit the fuse at Fort Necessity, never mind the rain.<br />
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Washington served as a back country commander of Virginia militia in the war Americans would eventually dub the French and Indian War, and, while things initially went poorly for the British in North America, William Pitt's bold strategy of taking the fight to the French paid off. In 1758, the British forced the French garrison to evacuate Fort Duquesne, which they wrecked on their way out. By 1760 the British were poised to defeat the French and seize the Canadas from them, which they did. In 1763, the French ceded control of the Canadas, the Ohio Country, and lands all the way to the Mississippi Valley (including settlements in Illinois) to the new British monarch, King George III. And that is when Fort Duquesne became Fort Pitt. And there was much rejoicing...not really, there was much bitterness, especially regarding new British policies limiting back country settlement, regulating maritime trade and a growing list of other things, all of which would result in George Washington becoming commander of a new creation: the Continental Army. We'll catch up with G. Washington, Esq. later, in the crucible of Valley Forge.</div>
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I had a chance last weekend to get closer to my old pal G. Washington, Esq. The Bug's work took us to Wilmington, DE (well, it was more of a party than work, but anyway...). Normally she would have flown the regular "flying passenger van" shuttle between Dayton and Newark (been on that shuttle, myself...the jets are small, noisy, and a total kick in the backside on takeoff). But as you know, I have lots of free time these days, so we decided just to drive Daisy, our 2012 Fusion, and spend 20+ hours in the car together, all told. No, really, this is a very good thing. We listen to books, enjoy the scenery, and talk to each other...I mean really talk about stuff that needs to be discussed. And sometimes we see sheep! We love a good road trip. </div>
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I hadn't thought about what to do while in Wilmington, except maybe head up the interstate to Philadelphia to the historic district. But when I looked at info for the area, I realized we were only about 15 minutes from Brandywine battlefield, and from there about 30 minutes up to Valley Forge! So our Saturday plans took shape. First of all, it was too hot to go to Philadelphia, so we deferred that trip. I also regret to say that we were only 15 minutes from the Brandywine River Museum (featuring the works of three generations of Wyeths), but I was unable to visit. I had planned to go to Chadd's Ford on Friday while Dana actually was at work in the Wilmington office, but I wasn't feeling all that well and, to put it bluntly, it was hotter than Hades outside. Someday we hope to return and visit Chadd's Ford and the several other fine art museums in the Wilmington area, not to mention Philadelphia, but this time it just didn't happen. </div>
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We had an early evening party to attend on Friday, and a great time was had by all! Saturday we got up, packed up, and headed to Brandywine Battlefield State Park. The battle took place on September 11, 1777, as General Howe rolled the dice and decided to go for Philadelphia instead of heading up the Hudson to Albany to meet up with the armies of Burgoyne and St. Leger (neither of which actually got to Albany, but that's another tale). Howe accompanied George Washington's nemesis from the battles of New York, Lord Cornwallis, by water down to Hampton Roads and up the Chesapeake, along with perhaps as many as 20.000 of their closest friends, well armed and hardened professonal soldiers. Howe successfully landed his army at the northern end of the Bay and headed northeast for Philadelphia along the precursor to US Route 1, though his progress was hampered by a lack of horses (you don't want to know the details).<br />
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Hessian Map of the Philadelphia Campaign<br />
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Washington responded with a very large force of his own, if not a very experienced one. Still, it was the largest army he commanded in the war, composed of about 3/4ths Continentals and 1/4th state militia...a good mix for him. He dug in on the high ground east of the Brandywine, overlooking Chadd's Ford on the road to Philadelphia, only 20 miles away. He posted watch on other nearby fords, assuming Cornwallis, with the lead column, would march right for his position. But, like previous battles, Cornwallis found a way to flank Washington's position, this time discovering that the Continentals had left their right flank vulnerable, if one bothered to march further upstream and ford the Brandywine there. In the ensuing battle, directly involving well over 20,000 men, with thousands more in reserve, Washington's soldiers fought bravely, some buying time with their very lives, others digging in and stubbornly holding off attacks on the right and in the center. But if they managed to avoid annihilation, they could not stop the British regulars, well-led as they were, and so they were forced by the end of the day to retreat. Philadelphia fell a couple of weeks later, but the new nation did not. General Washington still had an army, the government had evacuated Philadelphia, and many supplies had also been saved, thanks to the time bought along the Brandywine and the days of maneuvering that followed.</div>
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Though he could not keep Howe out of Philadelphia, Washington did have one opportunity to take back the important center of trade and manufacturing. Howe sent about a quarter of his army into the city to occupy it while he remained with the rest of the army in Germantown, blocking Washington from advancing. On October 4th, Washington launched a complex dawn attack on Howe's position. Initially, though the attack was poorly coordinated, Washington drove the British back. But then nature itself conspired against him. In the dense fog, units got confused by the roar of artillery and two of the Patriot columns collided and fired on each other. That and the unnecessary delay of trying to drive a small force of British soldiers out of a mansion, rather than just enveloping it and pressing on, cost Washington any hope of a major victory. British reinforcements arrived from Philadelphia, and so he reluctantly called for a general retreat. Washington refused to engage with Howe that autumn, though the British general tried a couple of times to draw him into another major battle.<br />
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General Howe, as the story goes, made himself quite at home in Philadelphia as October gave way to November and the onset of winter. He and his senior staff thoroughly enjoying being entertained by socialites, gambling, etc. Never mind that St. Leger's drive had been stopped and most of his Native American warriors had gone home. Never mind that Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne lost his entire army at Bennington and Saratoga. Never mind that the French monarch and his advisers now saw an opportunity to join the Americans and humiliate their British rivals. Howe blamed others for his failure to support Burgoyne up the Hudson, and he tendered his resignation, citing lack of support from his superiors (who had backed Burgoyne's plan). After that, he was content to winter comfortably in bed with Mrs. Loring, his mistress since Boston, rather than risk attacking Washington again. As for G. Washington, he had been beaten again, but remained undaunted, at least on the surface. He sought a reasonably safe place to hole up while not being so far from Howe that he couldn't keep tabs on the British forces. He chose Valley Forge and used spies to spread rumors that he had an unbreechable defensive position there. That winter, a core group of men would survive the crucible of cold and hunger and disease. They would drill to stay warm and alive, and men such as Joseph Plumb Martin would rise from that hellish place to become the heart of Washington's Continental Line of professional soldiers. </div>
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Here are some pics from Brandywine Battlefield:</div>
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Nothing says "battlefield" like a bronze 12 pounder! Washington's army lost a significant percentage of its artillery at Brandywine, either because positions were overrun or from lack of horses to pull the guns away (you don't want to know what happened to the horses).</div>
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Selfie with George</div>
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Washington's HQ...a house owned by successful Quaker mill operator Benjamin Ring</div>
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Springhouse</div>
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Bug in the car (did I mention it was HOT?)</div>
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The high ground above Chadd's Ford</div>
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The Brandywine Valley was predominantly Quaker, with English and Welsh settlements known for productive farms and very large families. This is a wonderful example of how a farmhouse grows with the family. An initial square(ish) one-story house could easily have a second story and then a wing added to it, and in time more outbuildings, etc. Note the kitchen building in the center and the stone storehouse to the left. This property was owned by Gideon Gilpin</div>
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Wonderful barn! Animals would have been sheltered below, and hay, fodder, etc., stored above</div>
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Another outbuilding, complete with chimney. I'm guessing the combination means this was a building dedicated either to drying fruit or a "smokehouse" for curing meats...or both</div>
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Me, doing what I do...</div>
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Another springhouse</div>
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(Public domain photo of Old Kennett Meetinghouse) Cornwallis, with 9,000 men, slammed into Washington's right flank, while a second force probed forward toward Chadd's Ford. Ironically, some of the worst of
the fighting took place around two Quaker meetinghouses. The
British column led by the Hessian General Knyphausen encountered a large force of Continentals hastily dug in behind the
stone walls on the grounds of the Old Kennett Meetinghouse, west of the Brandywine. Inside, the Friends
had gathered for a midweek service. As the battle raged, they continued to
worship. As one Quaker noted later, "While there was much noise and
confusion without, all was quiet and peaceful within."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Continentals, with total numbers approaching 15,000, managed to hold together a line stretching
from the Kennett Meetinghouse about three miles to the north, where they were hard-pressed to hold back Cornwallis. Gradually
the more professional British forces pushed them back to a new position,
anchored on the right along the stone walls around the Birmingham Meetinghouse (above),
about a mile from Chadd's Ford and Washington's fortified position east of the Brandywine. The British successfully drove the Continentals
from their positions at Birmingham and occupied the high ground on Meeting House Hill.
Washington and his trusted subordinate Nathanael Greene arrived on the scene
with the fat bookseller from Boston, Henry Knox, Washington's chief of
artillery. Knox used his cannon to hold the British off, and Greene managed to
assemble a patchwork force in the nick of time, as Knyphausen's force finally punched
through the Continental center at Chadd's Ford. As darkness fell, Washington's
army retreated from the Brandywine position, with Greene/s rear guard,
commanded by the Virginian George Wheedon, finally withdrawing under cover of
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Today at Birmingham Meetinghouse there is a peace garden around a mass grave in which the dead from both armies were buried.</div>
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It is a very peaceful peace garden. The Quaker settlements in the Brandywine Valley struggled for years after the battle, having lost horses, livestock, and other goods. By the time they had recovered, the war was over. The area happily remains rural and beautiful!</div>
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Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-33902876629545259482016-08-08T14:55:00.000-04:002016-08-08T15:18:05.923-04:00MetamorphosisThere are things I know...too many things...things I wish I didn't know. I know what it is like to
be bullied, assaulted, symbolically emasculated. But I also know what it is
like to hunt, to stalk, to kill. I know what it is to gut and skin
stuff, to scale and filet stuff, and, in the case of the myriad catfish I
have encountered, to do some combination of all of the above. I grew up
the son of a hunter and fisherman, a raiser of hounds, and the best way
to communicate with him and my brother was to learn their ways. I
learned them as best I could.<br />
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Manhood was defined in very specific ways in their world...I tried to walk that path, with uneven success. My body
has never quite been up to what my mind and their culture demanded of it, which explains
why I chose not to serve in the military, and why I am less proficient
at hunting, fishing, canoeing, etc., than some of you. I accept that. It is my
genetic heritage, coupled with many injuries to shoulders and ankles and back, but it makes me no less a man. I eventually learned that.<br />
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What I've also had, all along, is an
enormous intellect, a creative mind, filled with poetry and philosophy
and art and music...a mind driven by intellectual curiosity...a mind at
odds with the culture in which I was raised. I can and have planted and
cultivated and grown and harvested my own crops. I've cleaned more than
my share of fish. I've helped kill, skin, clean, and prep various critters, ranging
from a gray squirrel to an Angus bull. And I write poetry, and my head is a juke box on continuous play, with everything from Vince Gill to Vivaldi randomly erupting.<br />
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Why do I
say these things, tell this story? Because I grow weary of the "dividing lines" in America. I grow
tired of the labeling and divisiveness. I grew up in a cold, drafty mill house on
the cotton mill hill where my grandfather worked nearly his entire life. I lived in that world, though by freak opportunity my father, who
didn't even graduate high school, was apart from it. We were lucky...his
personality and skill landed him a job outside the mill hill world. But
I also paid a price for that. <br />
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Ever had an older, stronger,
meaner person steal your freaking Chuck Taylors out of your locker and
wear them, just to taunt you? I have. Ever been mocked incessantly for
using "big words?" I have, and much, much worse. It gets into your head...you think that you are forever doomed to be exploited, and so too often you play to the lowest common denominator rather than strive for personal excellence. But even when you do strive, when you think you've done everything the right way and well, sometimes you still lose. Ever lost a job to an inferior candidate
because said candidate's father wanted said child to follow in his
footsteps, regardless of qualifications? I have, and it gets into your head, as does getting "downsized" at a point in your career when you are finally beginning to think about the possibility that in 10-12 years, maybe you can think about retirement.<br />
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I've been asked to accept, bear, and/or do
almost unspeakable things as part of generational or intellectual or
psychological or academic hazing, and I have done so, including doing a few things of which I am ashamed. I have also seen death, up close and personal, though I'm sort of like Jack Sparrow when it comes to that subject. I've retrieved a
still-born baby from the morgue, though my supervisors didn't bother to
tell me the process, and delivered that "package," in a warm blanket the nurses provided, to the parents so
they could say goodbye. And I've sat by the bedside of a dying patient,
abiding with the family until, finally, that last, slow breath was drawn. I've
sat up many a night with my own brother, fighting to stay awake so that
I could be there if he woke up panicked. I've listened too many hours
to his breathing, counting the time until he would wake and I could get
some sleep, knowing we had made it through another night together, alive. I've stood by my
fair share of graves, too. I continue to celebrate those who
live on, as well as revere the departed.<br />
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I tell these stories because I have survived it all and worse, as many of you here know. I write because deep down, I know something you perhaps don't, and I want to share it with you. I know that I am worth the effort to stay alive. Took me a long time to get here, but I know this, and it is my anchor in the worst of storms. Want to swap stories? I'm here for you, anytime. Need to vent? I'm here. Seek me out. YOU are worth the effort to stay alive, too!<br />
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I find myself at yet
another turning point in a life filled with them. Do I continue to play high school sports in spite of what happened to me as a sophomore, or do I disappear into the circle of nerds who are my closest friends? Do I drop out of Wake
Forest in disgrace, or do I find a way to finish what my parents so want
me to finish? Do I quit my job, or keep at it, even though one error in judgment
almost cost the life of my best friend? Do I somehow find a way both to
do my duty as a church deacon and to care for my badly wounded, flawed self? Do I
drop out of seminary and go home because I know that church ministry is not my
likely future, or do I finish what I started because the future is
unclear? What on Earth do I do now that I know I am not meant to be a hospital chaplain?<br />
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The list goes on: Do I follow my passion for history into grad school, or do I try to find
some "fit" where I can help support our personal economy? Do I carry on
even when I lose one job to an arrogant search committee (AFTER I had
defended my diss, they somehow refused to believe I was set to graduate, just
because of a clerical delay in updating my transcript...yes, that
happened, along with the apparent fact that I didn't bend over backward far
enough to satisfy their egos...really? Yes. It happened.). And do I keep searching when another job, one for which I had been groomed for several years, is lost to overt nepotism? Do I
carry on even when my seven years of devotion and service above and
beyond the call go unrewarded and I am unceremoniously cut loose in the name of "strategic reorganization"? <br />
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The answer is yes. I have seen, felt,
touched, tasted evil. This is not it. I may have been the victim of
capitalism's impact on higher ed, the victim of short-sightedness, whatever...I'll leave that to others'
judgments, but yes, victim I have been. Still, I know evil, have faced
it down and made it back up before my fury. Whatever this is, it is not
that. I will prevail...but I concede that mine is not the easy path.
Thank you all so much for being here. For whatever reason or purpose,
this is my path, and I walk it...it beats the alternative, every single day.<br />
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Some things fall in my lap, to be sure, but then others are taken away. It weighs on a person. One comes to fear good news or happy times, as the news or the times seem ever followed by bad and sorrowful. So it has been for The Bug and me since my triumphant awards tour in November and our wonderful anniversary cruise in December. Though many of you may not understand half of this, a few of you will
understand all of it. I am here...I am alive...and I am strong, but I have the smell of smoke in my nose and the taste of ashes in my mouth. Forgive
my anger...it is righteous, though too often misdirected. Forgive my instability...I am working on it. Accept my love
and care....you have a formidable friend. But
sometimes I just have to light a pire to what has been lost and, yes, howl at the moon.<br />
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PeaceCarolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-54651953835798541172016-07-11T16:23:00.000-04:002016-07-11T16:23:27.902-04:00Floral Fireworks<div style="text-align: center;">
Not in much of a mood to talk about current events...too many tears, too much hate. And I'm sick. So here are some pretty pics from our yard to your eyes. Peace.</div>
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Let me begin by saying, many posts here notwithstanding, The Bug and I are NOT beach bunnies! In the days of my youth, I loved being in the water, but even then I preferred the pool to the ocean or lake. Nice and routine and sanitary, comparatively...and no snakes or sharks or jellyfish! I enjoyed soaking in the tub and lounging in the pool on our cruise, and I did like our all-too brief dip in the Caribbean, but yeah, we don't come to the beach for "the beach" so to speak. But we do love finding a beach our speed and renting a room with a view from which to sit and watch the action. We usually try to hit the beach in May, when it is a bit cooler and less hectic, but this year life events (not bad ones) led us to change our reservations to this week, which means we are at the beach in Delaware with tons of newly minted high school graduates, lol! Shenanigans abundant, I am sure. But it also means we can be relatively invisible, and that suits us just fine. We're here for the salt air and the wildlife, and as was the case last time we stayed in this particular hotel (two years ago) both come to us in abundance! Ahhh...that is the sound of the stress and strain and grief slipping away.</div>
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Okay, so here are some people.</div>
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Catch of the day...shot from our balcony. We love this place!</div>
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And there, just offshore, dolphins! Sigh...I was losing the light by the time they showed. Dewey Beach...one of our happy places! Tomorrow we'll drive around a bit, visit some nature preserves, and get in some hiking, but for now we are enjoying every bit of the several dimes we spent for this room.</div>
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Last year I set out some peonies along our short sidewalk. I had hesitated because we rent this place, but we seemed in a sedentary pattern and I thought why not. We thought it was a waste of money, because they looked terrible by late summer and then just died away. I had forgotten the wonderful plants of my childhood and how they go dormant and then "spring" back to life! Funny, really. Anyway, she requested pink, and I, as always, aim to please:</div>
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In this area, they typically reach peak around Memorial Day, and there are many of them planted in local cemeteries. A fitting tribute to the honored dead: life, and the struggle to be a more free and equal people, goes on. In remembrance of so many kinsmen and friends...</div>
Carolina Lintheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6450087739317969489.post-34858230819622854112016-05-14T16:35:00.000-04:002016-05-14T20:04:23.418-04:00Climbing Mount PergatoryGraduation has come and gone, final grades are in, and I am embarking on my first true summer off in...forever, it seems. No classes to teach, no workshops to lead, no papers or lectures to present, we're not moving, and I don't have to learn to read German in 10 weeks! Also, no research grant requiring me to travel and then present my findings, etc., etc., etc. And so I have some time to work on me before I have to turn my attention toward the Fall teaching load, and I must say, I am a bit of a mess. I have been through phases in recent years of trying to identify and address issues, past and present, to, as it were, identify my demons and try to confront them. I must honestly report that, so far, the demons have kicked my ass!<br />
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But then this week a long-time friend who, like me, is an INFP, raised a question, and the locks and chains that have bound me to that way of thinking began to fall away. What if I told you, to paraphrase her, that your "inner demons" are not demons at all, not something to be fought and quashed, or to be defeated by and consumed, but rather more like children, begging to be understood and nurtured? What if the real demon is conformist thinking and the external pressures we feel to be the person, at least in appearance, "they" expect or demand? Reject that way of thinking! Accept who you are. That was the clarion call that made me stop in my tracks. In other words, as a wise young woman once said to her kid sister, "You be you, boo!" Or in the words of the Bard, "To thine own self be true." Words to live by, I say!<br />
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As a society, there is no doubt that we have failed to understand this, and we need to stop failing! We need to stop hammering each other and ourselves into identities that are more shaped to be comfortable to others than to be the right fit for the one being hammered! I, for one, have suffered way too much along this line in the course of my life: the misunderstood, misfit child; not the little girl Daddy wanted, obviously, as I do identify as heterosexual male, but neither was I the mirror of my tough as nails father when he was a boy. The child with the high IQ in a culture that did not value intellectualism, the "hefty" lad who was slow and clumsy, the user of "big words" and the creative kid who often failed to do what was assigned because he was having too much fun in his imagination to be bothered with the mundane, that was me. As longtime readers here know, the result was years of bullying, culminating in the unimaginable final assault on my innocence in the year from hell that was 1975.<br />
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What I haven't spoken as much about is the dark decade that followed, the nature and self-destructiveness of my lifestyle during much of that time. I finally broke out of that pattern of self-loathing and, indeed, de facto self-abuse, but the breakout sent me into the Pit of Despair. Happily, I was surrounded by a loving community, one of whom was to become my soulmate, and so in 1988 I began the long climb out of the pit and up Mount Purgatory. In the process, I completed my Master of Divinity degree, pivoted, after a year of intense soul-searching, to teaching as my vocation, earned NC certification, then immediately went on to earn a Master's degree in American history, and then admission to a Ph.D. program, where I thrived for the first couple of years.<br />
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And then I fell into the Pit again, as events triggered all the demanding memories, some of which I had buried so deep as to be all but forgotten. Now I relived them in full color surround sound, because my brain is, well, special. So back on the meds I went, back to channeling the negative into positive. I took up painting when I couldn't write, not continually but as a way to express myself in a positive, pretty way. I painted landscapes, tobacco barns, dogs, horses, tractors, and then sand dunes, gulls, a lighthouse. These were things that made me smile, and they made my wife smile. And we wrote poetry again! And I finally finished that dissertation, and I got a full-time job in academia, and she advanced to a very comfortable position in her company. Life was okay, even as we faced the unthinkable with death of loved ones...life was okay.<br />
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But the realities of my new job, the challenges of working in such a financially troubled school, the coming and going of good friends, and the ever-present cost of loving each subsequent class of students, then having to let them go, began to take their toll. I drifted back into bad habits, even as I continued to be successful. I landed a book contract; I published a book chapter in an edited collection, and I wrote an award-winning article over the next few years. I won awards for best faculty and best club advisor, I earned tenure. And then the playhouse fell apart. I lost my book contract, as I had failed over and over again to meet deadlines. And the faculty finally received the news we had feared for awhile: we were bankrupt. My fifth year at this job was the year a part of me stopped caring. All the wind left my sails and I drifted badly toward the Pit. When another institution purchased us the next Spring, many thought it was our salvation, but it hasn't played that way. The uncertainty and angst is still there, along with the institutional dysfunction.<br />
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With aging families and seemingly a never-ending parade of deaths and funerals, life for us has been challenging. And with the new reality of my employment (at will status now, no tenure), where it seems like surface appearance takes precedence over depth of experience, and where we literally are in too precarious a position to give some students the grades they earned (the unspoken edict cloaked in the language of "retention"), it became too easy to let things go, to fake my way through teaching...and life. After all, any semester now they could (possibly will) calculate that they no longer need a full-time history professor, and that will be that. So I started to steal happiness, because I no longer felt happy, and when I couldn't steal it, I could drown out the pain. And so I got stuck in a deep, deep rut...not the Pit, at least not yet, but a helluva rut. We stole more than a bit of happiness on our wonderful 25th anniversary cruise, but by the time it was over, I was falling apart.<br />
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At some point this semester, with the grief accompanying the deaths of my Aunt Helen and Uncle Barry, word came to me concerning the personal struggles, based on a traumatic experience, of a student in one of my classes. I sought help from trusted colleagues in dealing with that revelation, including the anger I felt toward administrators for their inaction, and the anger I felt toward other students who were shaming and taunting the victim, or shunning her. I learned more stories...this was an institutional problem, and a dear one whom I know well and adore had suffered similar humiliation, shaming, victim-blaming, shunning, and even threats, when she had reported professional misconduct that needed reporting and investigating. The dam broke, and I cried me a river, let me tell you, projecting on those two young people all the feelings I had buried. I didn't just identify with them, I felt it all...everything I had "manned up" and swallowed, rather than face the shunning when, at age 16, I had been the victim.<br />
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I knew then that I had to act to take care of myself...I was in the Pit and it was worse than ever. It was swim or drown time. I chose to swim. I've been on maintenance meds for a long time, but I knew they were not nearly enough to cope with all this. So I acted on my instinct and long-time study of depression, and my doc backed me up, and the new regimen is helping. The river of tears has dried up, but the damage in the flood zone was formidable. I will be repairing bridges for awhile, but Spring has come, and with it promise of renewal.<br />
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The point is that I find myself once again wrestling with the great inner questions of who I am and how I can nurture and understand those inner voices that have become so demanding and petulant in recent years. There is the dead poet Lemuel Crouse, but who is he, really, and is "he" really a "he"? There is a strong feminine voice in some of Lemuel's work...I wish to explore this, as any artist should. And then there is the painter who for the last seven years has not dabbed oil to canvas. And there is the historian with a book people want that he can't seem to complete. And there's the guy with the ponytail and earring. What's that about? Is there a (modest, not really visible under most circumstances) tattoo in his future? And then there is the beloved teacher who can be so much better than he has been these past few years, despite the surface accolades.<br />
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It is an interesting time in my life. Most of the people who expected conformity from me are gone, so it is a bit easier for me to be myself, to find the masculine and feminine voices within, to let the introverted feeler feel, but to call on my shadow self, the entity I like to think of as an ISTJ female (perhaps naively believing that, somewhere in there, is a J, lol), to give structure and order to a professional life that has become far too chaotic. Mostly, one grows weary of always feeling as if happiness is something to be stolen, not lived. I intend to live! I will challenge people's comfort zones. I always have, but I will have better filters and, yes, a return to common sense and health. Wish me well! You know where to find me...<br />
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