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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)
Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)
Hollywood, our tour guide from the Yankee Freedom III. A brilliant storyteller! Fort Jefferson on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas. Fort Jefferson is the largest, most powerful masonry fort in the entire United States and was designed to maintain control of the entry way (and some nearby deep water anchorages) to the Gulf of Mexico. Built from 1846 - 1975 out of more than 16 million bricks, it was never finished. Dr. Samuel Mudd was held here for nearly four years after setting the broken legg of John Wilkes Boothe following the assasination of President Lincoln. Nearly 70 miles west of Key West, the Dry Tortugas mark the end of the third largest barrier reef in the world. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2017)
The Three Sisters and Broken Top, four of Oregon's Cascade volcanoes. Left to right are North and Middle Sister (from this angle looking almost like a single peak, but are two separate peaks), South Sister (very middle of the image), and then Broken Top on the right. South Sister has showed tectonic uplift since the year 2000 and is being monitored most closely as the most likely to erupt, but has not erupted for 2,000 years. Broken Top last erupted 100,000 years ago and North and Middle Sister last erupted over 14,000 years ago. Despite being closely clustered, all four have distinct geological histories are not considered vents of the same system. Oregon. (9 July 2019; Nathanael Miller)
The giant Convair B-36J Peacemaker and Boeing RB-47H Stratojet. 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)
Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)
They’re looking for the fifth here they say it holds the secret on how to live forever they keep me in a dark room where I can have my visions
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)
I lived in Tallahassee from 1992 - 1997. I interned at the Museum of Florida History in 1994, and then got my first post-FSU job there from 1994 - 1995 when budget cuts slashed a number of state jobs. The museum was opened in 1977 and is housed in the R. A. Gray Building behind the state capitol. One of my early jobs was cataloguing and recording the condition of several Civil War flags before sending them for conservation, the most rare being the 5th Florida regimental flag. Other exhibits I regularly cleaned, such as the case for the builder's model of the battleship USS Florida and citrus packing house. I had a minor part assisting in the construction of the diorama of Florida's first people. Tallahassee, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 05 Nov. 2018)
Auntie Kita's grave in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 19 April 2018)
The Oliver Mansion, originally named Copshaholm, was completed in 1896 by Joseph D. Oliver, head of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works and designer of the revolutionary chilled plow. It's a 38-room Romanesque Queen Anne house designed by architect Charles Alonzo Rich. It is maintained by the Northern Indiana Historical Society's The History Museum. South Bend, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Dec. 2017)
Bronze casts of foundation logs and a bronze hearth mark the site of the Lincoln cabin Excavations in the 1930s unearthed the original hearthstones, which are on displays in the visitors center. The Abraham Lincoln National Memorial preserves the Thomas Lincoln farm at the former Little Pigeon Creek Community in Indiana where the Lincolns moved in Dec. 1816 when Abraham was 7. The Lincolns lived here until 1830 when they moved to Illinois (Abraham was 21 in 1830). This is where Lincoln spent his formative years, and his mother Nanch Hanks is buried (his sister's grave is in the adjacent state park). Lincoln City, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Dec. 2017)
The Hummocks Trail at Mount St. Helens winds through the debris filed that used to be the mountain's north face. Rising to 8,363 feet, Mount St. Helens lost about 1,300 feet from its height during the eruption of May, 1980. The entire north face of the mountain broke away in the largest landslide in recorded history, resulting in a lateral eruption that killed 57 people and temporarily blasted nearby Spirit Lake clear out of its bed. Today a massive lava dome occupies the center of the crater. Mount St. Helens remains the currently most active of the Cascade volcanoes. Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington State. (29 November 2019; Nathanael Miller)
I lived in Tallahassee from 1992 - 1997. I interned at the Museum of Florida History in 1994, and then got my first post-FSU job there from 1994 - 1995 when budget cuts slashed a number of state jobs. The museum was opened in 1977 and is housed in the R. A. Gray Building behind the state capitol. One of my early jobs was cataloguing and recording the condition of several Civil War flags before sending them for conservation, the most rare being the 5th Florida regimental flag. Other exhibits I regularly cleaned, such as the case for the builder's model of the battleship USS Florida and citrus packing house. I had a minor part assisting in the construction of the diorama of Florida's first people. Tallahassee, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 05 Nov. 2018)
The Sun Oil Company ("Sunoco") station. Sunoco was among the first companies to standarized the look of its service stations. This station was built in 1924 and originally stood at the intersection of Brown and Warren Streets in Dayton. "A Carillon Christmas" at Carillon Historical Park. The park features exhibits and buildings telling the story of Dayton from 1796 to the present day. Among the exhibits house on the park grounds are the Wright Flyer III from 1905, a section and lock from the old Miami and Eerie Canal, and a massive collection of cash registers (the cash register was invented in Dayton in 1879). (Nathanael Miller, 22 Dec. 2017).
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)
Wild turkeys roam the woods at Cowpens National Battlefield. Established in 1929, Cowpens National Battlefield preserves the land American Brig. General Daniel Morgan clocked the daylights out of a superior British force under Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton Jan. 17, 1781, during the British' Southern Campaign. The battle was a signficant American victory and helped put British General Lord Cornwalllis on the path that eventually led to Yorktown The battle was named for the field which farmers used to pen cattle while fattening them up prior to sending them to market in Charleston. Gaffney, South Carolina. (Nathanael Miller, 13 Feb. 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)
The sail of the USS Surgeon (SSN 637) seems to breaking through arctic ice during snowy weather in Keyport. The Sturgeon was in commission from 1967 - 1994, and its sail is on dispaly at the Naval Undersea Museum. Keyport, Washington. (Nathanael Miller, 9 Feb. 2019).
, Washington. (Nathanael Miller. 09 Feb. 2019)
Elkhorn is a real-live dead Old West mining ghost town. Established in 1872, the town boomed during the 1890s and died when the mine played out and the railroad left in the 20th century. Two structures, Gillian and Fraternity Halls, are maintained as part of Elkhorn State Park (both built in the 1890s). Many of the graves in the cemetery are of children killed by a late 19th century diptheria outbreak. There are about a dozen people still living there today. Elkhorn, Montana. (Nathanael Miller, 21 August 2018)
Frigate birds above Fort Jefferson on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas. Fort Jefferson is the largest, most powerful masonry fort in the entire United States and was designed to maintain control of the entry way (and some nearby deep water anchorages) to the Gulf of Mexico. Built from 1846 - 1975 out of more than 16 million bricks, it was never finished. Dr. Samuel Mudd was held here for nearly four years after setting the broken legg of John Wilkes Boothe following the assasination of President Lincoln. Nearly 70 miles west of Key West, the Dry Tortugas mark the end of the third largest barrier reef in the world. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2017)
The grave of Union (Brevet) Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Chamberlain left teach to join the Union army and rose to fame at Gettysburg. He was wounded six times and reached the permanent rank of Brigadire General, and was breveted to Major General until the end of the war by President Lincoln. He lived from 1828 - 1914, and died of complications from his Civil War wounds. He was the last known veteran to die of war wound complications, and is considered the final casualty of the Civil War. He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Brunswick, Maine. (Nathanael Miller, 30 July 2018)
An 11-image composite image over Koko Head and Koko Crater (the dominant formation to the right). Koko Crater is the largest formation of the Koko Head formation. It was formed between 800,000 and 30,000 years ago during the Honolulu Volcanic Series that also formed Diamond Head, Punchbowl, Ulupa'U, Hanama Bay, and other formations on Oahu. The flanks of the tuff cone are unusually green due to the large amounts of rain Oahu has received. Hawaii Kai, Hawaii. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller. 14 April 2018)
Otto the Otter was built by high school students in 1972 in Adams Park. Otto is 40 feet long. Fergus Falls stands along the Otter Tail River and is the county seat of Otter Tail County. Fergus Falls, Minnesota. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Aug. 2018)
The 1905 Wright Flyer III in the Wright Brothers Aviation Center at Carillon Historical Park. This was the third flyer built by the Wrights, and the first practical powered airplane they achieved full control with. Later modifications to in in 1908 reconfigured the engine so the pilot and a passenger could fly sitting up. Orville Wright restored it to its 1905 appearance for its exhibition at the Carillon Historical Park in 1946. Dayton, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 4 Dec. 2017)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment from USS Ponce (LPD 15) at the grave of Union (Brevet) Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Chamberlain left teach to join the Union army and rose to fame at Gettysburg. He was wounded six times and reached the permanent rank of Brigadire General, and was breveted to Major General until the end of the war by President Lincoln. He lived from 1828 - 1914, and died of complications from his Civil War wounds. He was the last known veteran to die of war wound complications, and is considered the final casualty of the Civil War. He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Brunswick, Maine. (Nathanael Miller, 30 July 2018)
Founded in 1754, it 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)
The Fountains of Bellagio are a choreographed water show set in an eight acre man-made lake. Some of the jets can shoot a blast of water over 400 feet in the area. Show's are done regularly all day every day. The Bellagio is one of the grand hotel/casinos on the famous Vegas Strip. Las Vegas, Nevada. (Nathanael Miller, 15 Oct. 2018)
The sail of the USS Surgeon (SSN 637) seems to breaking through arctic ice during snowy weather in Keyport. The Sturgeon was in commission from 1967 - 1994, and its sail is on dispaly at the Naval Undersea Museum. Keyport, Washington. (Nathanael Miller, 9 Feb. 2019).
, Washington. (Nathanael Miller. 09 Feb. 2019)
Diamond Head Lighthouse seen from atop Diamond Head. It was first lit in 1917. Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)
Ala Moana was the largest shopping center in the U.S when it opened in 1959, and is still the largest open-air shopping center in the world. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 22 April 2018)
USS Arizona (BB 39). Arizona was hit by an armor-piercing bomb that detonated her forward magazines during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The ship exploded, killing 1,177 of the 1,512 sailors on board at the time (about half of the lives lost during the attack). Of these dead, 1,102 are still aboard. Arizona was commissioned in 1916 and decommssioned in 1942. The memorial was built in 1962 and is visited by about 2 million people annually. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)
Multi-image composite panorama of the view over Manao Valley, Diamond Head, Punchbowl, and Honolulu from Puu Ualakaa State Park on Tantalus just off the famous Roundtop Loop. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller. 19 April 2018)
When you're on the highway and see a beautiful sunset sometimes you have to pull over to the shoulder and capture the moment
The Falls of Clyde was launched in 1878, and is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only sail-driven oil tanker left. It is a museum ship, but deteriorating and may be lost. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 22 April 2018)
Mount Rainier, seen at a distance of 30 miles from the parking lot of Tanwax Country Chapel in Eatonville. Mount Rainier itself is the tallest and biggest of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Eatonville, Washington. (01 June 2019; Nathanael Miller)