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Charles Benedict Carver founded the Maryland Agricultural College at Riversdale. It would later become the University of Maryland and thus home to the mascot a Maryland Terrapin.
The College Park Aviation Museum is located adjacent to the College Park Airport. The College Park Airport is the world’s oldest continuously operating airport established in 1909 when Wilbur Wright came and trained military officers to fly the government’s first aeroplane. The airport is known as the “Field of Firsts” which includes the first female passenger, first machine gun tested on an airplane, and the first controlled helicopter flight.
Kirschbluete Bonn / Cherry Blossoms in Bonn, Germany
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We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
We didn't get to see ice caves this time around as they are not able to be viewed in the summer, but this was a small ice formation formed in the glacier that I found to be interesting.
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This is a mosaic from the following Strachur Smiddy Album of photos of the historic Strachur Smiddy (smithy, blacksmith's workplace) made using Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker.
Sony RX100M3.
Extracted from the Strachur Smiddy and the Strachur websites:
The Strachur Smiddy is a small museum with a craft shop in the heart of the old Clachan of Strachur. The Smiddy has a long history, having been in existence at least since the 1790s. It continued to perform a vital function in the community until it closed in the mid-1950s.
The Smiddy at Strachur is probably unique in two respects. First, for most of its operational life, it was in the hands of the Montgomery family, spanning four generations of village blacksmiths. Second, the contents remained virtually untouched from the day it closed until its restoration as a museum, so that it provides a unique record of the technology of the blacksmith and his craft.
The implements, artefacts and photographs on display give a realistic insight into an important aspect of Scotland's rural history. Open days at the smiddy include demonstrations of the smith's craft.
A visit to the Smiddy Museum at Strachur will fire the imagination of days not so long ago when transport relied on horses and the blacksmith’s forge was at the centre of everyday life.
The low-lying pass between Loch Fyne and the Clyde has a long history, dating back to the Iron and the Bronze age. Strachur, nestled in the valley of the heron (Strath = valley; curr = heron) is an old village with its roots in the ancient history of Dalriada and Strathclyde. The village came into its own in the 17th and 18th centuries when the pass between Loch Fyne and the Clyde was a busy route with a constant coming and going of merchants and packmen, metalworkers, chiefs and their messengers. Before that, in medieval times Christian monks would come through the valley to and from monasteries such as Iona. Robert the Bruce and his armies travelled this way, and the Earls of Montrose and Argyll used the route on their marches.
The Old Inn and the Smiddy became central points on the route and the Smiddy itself dates from the 1790s, possibly a thatched cottage in its first incarnation (as there is a thackstane on the chimney). Four generations of Montgomerys managed the Smiddy and provided essential services for the rural community in the form of farm tools and an endless supply of shoes for the horses. As cars began to replace horses, the family opened a garage in 1923 and the Smiddy finally closed in the 1950s. The interior of the forge was left untouched and thereby became ideal as a view into the past.
Montgomery descendant, Cathie Montgomery, who still lives in the village, decided to pursue the possibility of turning her family heirloom into a public museum. A committee was quickly formed of hugely enthusiastic people, and with lottery funding assistance, local authority and other grant funding support, and much local fundraising over 5 years, her vision became a reality in 1997.
We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.
This is a shot of a ball of moss hanging out on the glacier.