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Snowy day in my neighborhood as Washington is hammered by a series of blizzards. Silverdale, Washington. (Nathanael Miller. 10 Feb. 2019)
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 Driggs Skylark at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. The Driggs Aircraft Company was founded by Ivan Driggs in Lansing, Michigan in 1927, and this skylark is the only known example of the 21 ever built. Founded in 1854 as the "Grand Rapids Lyceum of Natural History" it's one of the oldest museums in the nation, and tells the story of Michigan's natural history as well as the diverse stories of the diverse peoples who have lived here. Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 19 Dec. 2017)
USCG Station Tillamook Bay. This was Barbara's first duty station. She used to help crew unit 47254, a 47-foot motor life boat which is still attached to Station Tillamook Bay. She also painted a mural in the station that is still there today. Garibaldi, Oregon. (30 December 2019; Nathanael Miller)
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)
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)
Austin Lantz leads a tour of 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)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment from USS Ponce (LPD 15) with 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. Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
The Shrine Room in the Indiana War Memorial. Begun in 1926 and completed in 1965, the Indiana World War Memorial design is based off the design of the ancient Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, completed in 351 B.C. It's 210 feet tall and contains a massive shrine room, underneath of which is a 30,000 square foot museum depicting the history of Indiana's involvement in all the nation's wars. Indianapolis, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 20 Dec. 2017)
Albus the Crab visits the bust of John Ross. John Ross was the principle Cherokee chief from 1828–1866, serving longer than any other person. He led the nation through the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma and then led the effort to rebuild and reclaim their society. The Cherokee National Heritage Center is built on the site of the Cherokee Female Seminary (three columns of which are still standing at the center's entrance). The seminary builiding was opened in 1851 and burnt down in 1887. The modern heritage center tells the story of the Cherokee Nation, with an emphasis on the Trail of Tears' impact on the Cherokee and other nations. Park Hill, Oklahoma. (Nathanael Miller, 6 April 2018)
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl Crater. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 19 April 2018)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment of USS Ponce (LPD 15) with the prow of the nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS South Carolina (CGN 37). In commission from 1975 - 1999, South Carolina was built in Virginia, but scrapped in Bremerton. The prow went on display in Bremerton's Memorial Plaza in 2009. Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Bremerton, Washington. (Nathanael Miller, 11 September 2018)
Human face possibly wearing a headdress. The Leo Petroglyphs were probably created by the Fort Ancient culture, circa 700 years ago. Carved and painted on exposed portion of the Black Hand sandstone bedrock that underlies much of east-central Ohio. Jackson County, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 6 Jan. 2018)
First lit in 1874, the Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse is still known as "Two Lights" because it consisted of a pair of towers. The eastern tower is still an active aid to navigation, the western tower was deactivated in 1924 and briefly served as a military lookout tower during World War II before sold to a private ower. It is not lit anymore. Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (Nathanael Miller, 24 July 2018)
The Pacific Aviation Museum occupies historic spaces on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Its most iconic structure is the old Ford Island Control Tower. The tower was under construction when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Exhibits include the wreckage of a Japanese plane that crashed on the Island of Ni'ihau, one of only two fixed-wing Wildcats, and a civilian plane that was caught in the middle of the Japanese formations as they approached Pearl Harbor. My uncle, Clarence Silva, did the murals that hang in the museum's exhibits. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
The Pacific Aviation Museum occupies historic spaces on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Its most iconic structure is the old Ford Island Control Tower. The tower was under construction when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Exhibits include the wreckage of a Japanese plane that crashed on the Island of Ni'ihau, one of only two fixed-wing Wildcats, and a civilian plane that was caught in the middle of the Japanese formations as they approached Pearl Harbor. My uncle, Clarence Silva, did the murals that hang in the museum's exhibits. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
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)
Fort Zachary Taylor. Built in 1845 and decommissioned in 1947. The fort was central of the Union blockade and in making Key West the only Southern city that never left Union hands. Reconfigured over the years, it was going to be pretty much leveled until Howard S. England discovered the largest cache of on-site Civil War cannons. The Civil War guns had been used as fill during reconstructions during the late 19th century. Some cannons are left partially exposedin the late-19th century Battery Oscela. (Nathanael Miller, 25 July 2017)
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National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl Crater. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 23 April 2018)
Albus the Crab at the Henry M Jackson Visitors Center in Paradise are 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)
American poet Robert Penn Warren was born in this house in 1905. Guthrie, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Dec. 2017)
The new Tennessee State Museum building opened in October 2018. Telling the story of the Tennessee from prehistoric times through the modern era, its vast collection is well worth a visit. Featured artifacts include one of Daniel Boone's rifles; a rare 13-star U.S. flag with the original 6-pointed stars first mandated by Congress before the flag was changed to 5-pointed stars; a coat made by future-president Andrew Johnson when he was still a tailor; chairs used during Civil Rights sit-ins; and outfits and instruments used by Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller. 21 Nov. 2018)
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)
USCG Station Tillamook Bay. This was Barbara's first duty station. She used to help crew unit 47254, a 47-foot motor life boat which is still attached to Station Tillamook Bay. She also painted a mural in the station that is still there today. Garibaldi, Oregon. (30 December 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Riverside is the official "future birthplace" of Star Trek's legendary Capt. James T. Kirk. The town has a stone monument at the site of Kirk's future home, and even an official starship named USS Riverside..
Riverside, Iowa. (Nathanael Miller, 08 Aug. 2018)
"Giant's Coffin." 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)
World's largest ball of string. 42 feet in circumference and weighing 6 tons. Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Ripley's Odditorium, is a museum of curiosities that is part of the Ripley's chain around the world. This particular building is built to look like it was fractured by an earthquake along the nearby New Madrid faultline like the ones that hit hte area in 1811 and 1812. Branson, Missouri. (Nathanael Miller, 3 April 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)
Centennial Park was the site of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Today the full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian Parthenon is the only structure left. The park boasts a man-made lake, numerous monuments, and vast amounts of green space. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 12 May 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)
Ahnk the Cat enjoys a lazy Saturday morning. Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 23 June 2018)
Nine-image composite panorama showing Harpers Ferry from the site of the former federal armory. The fire engine house (left) is the only building left of the federal amory raided by John Brown in 1859. Today sitting 150 feet from its original location (marked by a stone obelisk, right), it became known as "John Brown's Fort" and is the building Brown made his last stand in. The building was moved four three times before being brought bac to Harpers Ferry. Harpers Ferry. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 9 Jan. 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)
Engine 576 ("The Stripe") is a 4-8-4 locomotive built in August 1942 and donated to Nashville in 1953. Currently on display in Centennial Park, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society (N.S.P.S) is slowly working to restore 576 to operational status with the goal of running regular tours around Nashville. Centennial Park was the site of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Today the full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian Parthenon is the only structure left. The park boasts a man-made lake, numerous monuments, and vast amounts of green space. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 12 May 2018)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment of USS Ponce (LPD 15) with a very special sycamore tree on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg. This tree is a "witness tree," it is one of a handful of trees in town that was alive during the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. This particular tree was one of two still alive in Gettysburg to witness a second event: President Lincoln passed this tree on his way to give the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. These two trees, along with a very few others around the country, are the only living connections left to the life of Abraham Lincoln. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller. 07 May 2018)