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Caption: Hannes Visser and Yoruba Richen
Credit: Nadine Wilmot
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Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers near Cairo in Alexander County, Illinois. The strategic significance of the site has been known since prehistoric times with archaeological evidence of warfare dating to the Mississippian era. It is the southernmost point in the state of Illinois. Fort Defiance Park, formerly a State Park, is owned and maintained by the city of Cairo. At 279 feet (85 m) elevation, Fort Defiance Point is Illinois' lowest point.
This has several meanings. First, I was at Sawgrass today but only to deliver bread to the clubhouse. Second, it's today's date.
But, read it as "four-ten-oh-nine" and doesn't it remind you of the song "Promised Land?"
"Los Angeles, give me Norfolk, Virginia, Tidewater 4-1009"
Not to mention I have a friend in Mississippi who turns 40 today!
This is the only time in the entire century we will have this date.
Also it's Good Friday. It was even more so for me because it was payday! :)
...or, rather, a boy, but a huge leap for his development.
Dominic has grown up on this trip. He hiked like a real man ^_^ and was my awesome firewood supplier. He stopped being afraid of moths and ants and frogs. And even though he still does not like wasps and mosquitos, at least he does not run away in terror anymore.
Photo from the camping trip to Promised Land Lake, PA, 2005.