A wagon train was heading west using the southern route to the gold fields of California. They had hired an experienced guide named Al and were making good time. The going was rough but they hadn’t run out of water or food yet and the people hopes were high. Then just past Santa Fe their luck ran out. They were attacked by a large band of Apaches and before they could get the wagons circled to begin defending themselves Al was shot through by an… Read More »Sunday Punday 6
I have built some great henges in the last few years some as events like TubeHenge: TubeHenge Some solo like CitrusHenge: CitrusHenge Now an article in the Clarion Legend (Clarion, Mississippi) talks about Henging and why it happens. After visiting Stonehenge and some other replicas the author Felder Rushing was inspired to make Peghenge, a henge made of clothes pins and wrote “When you do something like this, two things happen: You feel a little silly and exposed, and also, because what you’ve done is… Read More »Why We Henge
“The surest fertilizer of a movement is the blood of martyrs.” Bernard DeVoto The Year of Decision 1846 This a great book about the Polk administration. The war with Mexico, the Donner party, the treaty with Great Britain that resolved the Oregon Territories border and much more all happened in 1846. The book was published in 1940 so the writing is dated but captivating. Well worth reading.
On our drive from Santa Fe to visit the Pecos Pueblo we visited the Carnegie Library in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was Sunday so the library was closed but as we drove up the sky cleared and I got this great photo. Yes it was designed as a copy of Monticello. The building of the Carnegie Libraries was an amazing thing. It seems that someone like Stephen Fried who wrote Appetite for America about Fred Harvey and the Harvey Houses could do a great… Read More »Carnegie Libraries
At least there are no stereotypes on this 1925 postcard. Shudder Simon The Harvey Houses Appetite for America by Steven Freid La Posada Hotel Winslow Arizona