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The spiral jetty is a an earthwork sculpture built in 1970 by Robert Smithson. The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric lake the once covered most of Utah and parts of Idaho. The Great Salt Lake covers an average of 1,700 square miles, but its water level fluctuates significantly. A railroad causeway across the lake's center creates differing levels of salinity in each half, resulting in the northern half of the lake taking on a reddish hue and the southern half looking more blue. Great Salt Lake, Uta. (Nathanael Miller, 27 August 2018)
Discovered during the construction of I-90 in the 1970s, the Vore Buffalo Jump is the only known sinkhole used as a mass hunting trap by American Indians for catching bison. Excavations date its use to a 300 year period from 1500 to about 1800. The site is named for the former land owners, the Vore family, who donated the land to create a foundation dedicated to preserving the interpreting the site..
Sundance, Wyoming. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Aug. 2018)
Rivewrwalk, twelve-image composite panorama. Tampa, Florida. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 21 Feb. 2018)
Hillsborough Presbyterian Church (1816) and the Old Town Cemetery (1757). Founded in 1754, Hillsborough was the launching point for one of Daniel Boone's expditions. Hillsborough was the site of the North Carolina convention that ratified the Constitution, and was home to a young slave named Elizabeth Keckley. Keckley would go on as an adult free woman to be dressmaker and confidant of Mary Todd Lincoln during the Lincoln administration. Hillsborough, North Carolina. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Feb. 2018)
Discovered during the construction of I-90 in the 1970s, the Vore Buffalo Jump is the only known sinkhole used as a mass hunting trap by American Indians for catching bison. Excavations date its use to a 300 year period from 1500 to about 1800. The site is named for the former land owners, the Vore family, who donated the land to create a foundation dedicated to preserving the interpreting the site..
Sundance, Wyoming. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Aug. 2018)
Located in Ashwaubenon, just outside of Green Bay, the National Railroad Museum was founded in 1956. Among the rolling stock featured is the Dwight D. Eisenhower, a British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive of the type that pulled IKE's command train during WWII; the engine is attached to two cars that actually were part of IKE's command train. Also featured is one of the biggest steam engine ever built, Union Pacific's Big Boy (an American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4), and the Aerotrain, a failed high-speed train built by General Motors in the mid-1950s. Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. (Nathanael Miller, 07 Aug. 2018)
University of Maryland classes of 1994, 1998, and 1999 commissioned this life-statue of University of Maryland alumni Jim Henson and his creation, Kermit the Frog. It was placed outside the student union and dedicated in 2003. College Park, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller. 05 May 2018)
Albus the Crab at the Wright-Dunbar Interpretetive Center. The center incorporates the building where Orville began the operation of the brothers' early newspaper business. The park tells the stories of the Wright Brothers and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in Dayton. (Nathanael Miller, 29 Nov. 2017)
Cold War Submarine Memorial incorporating the sail and tail fin from USS Lewis and Clark (SSBN 644), in commission from 1965 - 1992. Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. (Nathanael Miller, 14 Feb. 2018)
Balao-class submarine USS Becuna (SS 319) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Becuna was in commission from 1944 - 1969, and won four battle stars for World War II service. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)
Freemont Street was the original Las Vegas Strip. Partially turned into a pedestrian forum now, it includes numerous historic neon signs from long-gone hotels. Las Vegas, Nevada. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Oct. 2018)
Albus the Crab at the Clement Oak. This tree has been alive since the late 16th century. It was also the site of the landing of the first aerial flight in America. President George Washington watched as Jean-Pierre Blanchard took off in a balloon from Philadelphia. Blanchard carried a letter from President Washington to be delivered to whomever owned the property where the balloon landed, thus making this the first delivery of air mail as well. Deptford, New Jersey. (Nathanael Miller, 10 May 2018)
Looking over the old 1812-era saltpeter mines with 200-year old wood perfectfly preserved by the cave. Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world with over 400 miles of tunnels mapped. It was carved over over millions of years by the underground Styx and Echo rivers, which empty into the Green River. It was first discovered 6,000 years ago by Native Americans and has been integral to Kentucky history ever since. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Dec. 2017)
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The National Corvette Museum. Founded in 1994, it showcases the history of the Corvette. It's signature Skydome was the site of a 2014 sinkhole that swallowed 8 historic cars. All 8 were recovered, but only two were fully restored. Bowling Green, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 10 Dec. 2017)
Boeing B-29 "Bocks Car," which dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki in August 1945. Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 4 Dec. 2017)
Albus the Crab is in heaven finding a giant coffee cup at Nyberg Park. Nyberg Park features scrap-metal sculptures by local artist Ken Nyberg, including one honoring his daughter and fellow Vining native, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. Vining, Minnesota. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Aug. 2018)
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees no two leaves are alike and no two journeys along the same path are alike
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
USS Utah (BB 31 / AG 16) is the *other* ship still resting in Pearl Harbor following the 1941 attack. Converted from battleship to gunnery target vessel, the ship was nonetheless attacked and hit with torpedos, capsizing it. The Navy only partially righted the ship, and 58 men still like entombed inside it. Today viistors see part of the starboard side superstructure protruding above the water. Utah was commissioned in 1911 and was not decommissioned until 1944 (nearly three years after being sunk). Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
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The Henry M Jackson Visitors Center in Paradise area of Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier the highest peak of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Mount Rainier National Park Washington. (25 Aug. 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Waiting at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport for the first leg of our flight home--the Honolulu - Houston leg. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 24 April 2018)
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
Ranger Albert Carter answers a guest's question in the McLean House. The home of Wilmer McLean was the site of Grant and Lee's meeting on April 9, 1865. The house was dismantled in the late 19th century with intent to move it to Washington, D.C., but the effort failed. Most of the house of was lost, but the bricks around the front door and a few other architectural pieces are original to the house when it was reconstrcuted in 1949. Established in 1935, the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park preserves the site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. Appomattox, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Feb. 2018)