Cherry Creek Cemetery, Steptoe Valley, Nevada “Time and Tide wait for no man” Old English Proverb A quick visit to Hamilton, Piermont, or Ward will certainly prove the above proverb true. The Great Basin of Nevada is full of old sleepy Ghost towns that time seemingly forgot. Similarly, the same is true [...]
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The town that time forgot……………Cherry Creek, Nevada
Monday, August 8th, 2011A night out in the Wilderness – Capitan Mountain, New Mexico
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Showy Daisy – Capitan Mountain Wilderness – New Mexico 10 October 2009 – Capitan Mountain Wilderness, New Mexico I was bored one evening in El Paso so I decided that I wanted to go and spend the night out in the mountains. I looked at my maps and determined that the Capitan Mountain Wilderness would [...]
Santa Fe, New Mexico – 400 years of the History of our Nation
Monday, July 11th, 2011Santa Fe, New Mexico I visited Santa Fe, New Mexico once upon a time and took some notes in my journal. Here is the transcript of my visit in the fall of 2009 – Sitting on a bench in the Santa Fe city cathedral park. It is a beautiful place with shady trees, old lamp [...]
“Something’s up with Edgefield” – Edgefield, South Carolina
Friday, June 10th, 2011Edgefield Town Square – Edgefield, South Carolina “Are you making all this fuss over me?” Strom Thurmond While traveling on business through South Carolina on State Route 19 from Aiken up through Edgefield I came upon a place that was totally unexpected. Each day I would drive through the town on State Route 25 which [...]
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORY MUSEUM – Concord, New Hampshire
Sunday, May 1st, 2011Concord Stage – New Hampshire Historical Museum; Concord New Hampshire In Concord, the charming Capitol city of New Hampshire, there is a most interesting point of interest that should not be missed if you ever find yourself in the Granite State. This point of interest is the Museum of New Hampshire History. It is difficult [...]
USS Constellation – Gem of Baltimore Harbor – Beacon of Freedom; Baltimore, Maryland
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011As the Nation commemorates the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, I thought it would be interesting to aquaint the citizens of the United States with a little known fact. Before the War from 1859-1861 the proud Sloop of War USS Constellation – assigned to the U.S. Navy’s “Africa Squadron” patrolled the [...]
GEORGE WASHINGTON MONUMENT – Eakins Oval – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; by Jaromy Jessop
Saturday, March 19th, 2011George Washington forever gazes from his perch down Benjamin Franklin Parkway – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania It is always raining or snowing when I visit Philadelphia, nevertheless, inside Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia art museum is my favorite statue anywhere. While it is probably well known to the citizens of Philadelphia, many people who have [...]
Fort Gorges – Interesting old place that was never quite completed; Casco Bay – Portland, Maine
Sunday, March 13th, 2011Fort Gorges as seen from from Bug Lighthouse – Portland Harbor, Maine While visiting old Bug Light on the edge of Portland Harbor breakwater, which is a remarkable spot itself, I noticed an old abadoned redoubt out in the middle of the harbor. It looked like some of the old Civil War forts I had [...]
North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment State Park; Illwaco, Washington
Saturday, February 26th, 2011North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment, Washington “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” H.P. Lovecraft While visiting Astoria, Oregon on our trip down the Oregon Coast in late May of 2010, my wife and I decided to take a detour to Cape Disappointment and we are [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Friday, February 25th, 2011Mural Panel at the Buffalo Corral – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma By Jaromy Jessop I have visited Oklahoma City half a dozen times traveling from here to there along Interstate 40 and each time I pass through I notice something different and interesting. I will describe one visit in particular when I got to spend a [...]