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"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
-- John Adams (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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One of the main entrances to the United First Parish Church in Quincy, MA . . . otherwise known as the "Church of the Presidents". The Church's Greek Revival design was built using granite donated by John Adams and completed in 1828, though it was the congregation's fourth home .
Like their ancestors, both Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were life-long members of the Church. Their tombs stand in a crypt within the church, beside those of their wives, Abigail and Louisa Catherine. Also, the Patriot John Hancock was baptized in this church by his father, the Rev. John Hancock, who served here as minister from 1726 to 1744.
Hopetoun House near Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland, is a country house owned by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust, a charity established in 1974 to preserve the House and Grounds as a national monument and to protect and improve their amenities, and to preserve for the benefit of the nation the furniture, paintings, manuscripts and other articles of historical or artistic interest associated with the House. The south wing of the house is occupied by the family of The 4th Marquess of Linlithgow as their family home. The house was built 1699-1701 and designed by Sir William Bruce. The house was then hugely extended from 1721 by William Adam until his death in 1748, being one of his most notable projects. The interior was completed by his sons John Adam and Robert Adam. The magnificent entrance hall dates from 1752. The Hope family acquired the land in the 17th century and operated lead mines. Charles Hope, the first occupant, was only 16 years old when his mother, Lady Margaret Hope, signed the contract for building with William Bruce, on 28 September 1698. The master mason is noted as Tobias Bachope of Alloa. The plumber and glazier was John Forster of Berwick. The house was the site of the departure of the visit of King George IV to Scotland on the 29th August 1822 and the knighthood of Captain Adam Ferguson and Henry Raeburn. The English garden style landscape park in which it lies were laid out in 1725, also by William Adam. The east front centres on the distant isle of Inchgarvie and North Berwick Law. The walled garden dates from the late 18th century. In the grounds an 18th-century mound was excavated in 1963 to reveal the remains of the earlier manor house, Abercorn Castle, dating from the 15th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetoun_House
Entrance to the Stone Library, located on the grounds of the Adams National Historic Park in Quincy, MA. The library houses some 12,000 volumes of books and manuscripts from four generations of Adams men and women beginning with the 2nd U.S. President John Adams.
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
John Adams
Have a great holiday!
Happy Independence Day
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
- John Adams
Taken @ The Wise Choice Coffee House & Gallery
Sculptured bronze figures by Lee Lawrie on the east entrance doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building in Washington D.C.
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, the de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States.
The Library of Congress was established on April 24, 1800.
Washington DC.
Built in 1873, the Carriage House part of the Adams family estate, part of the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, MA.
got this as change the other day and of course being an i love macro person, i had to take pictures. it is approximately the size of a quarter so around the edge instead of vertical parallel grooves they added the phrase "E pluribus unum in God we trust 2007"
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Many patriot leaders from 12 British colonies attended, including George Washington, John and Sam Adams, Patrick Henry and Peyton Randolph.
Sculptured bronze figures by Lee Lawrie on the east entrance doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building in Washington D.C.
Sculptured bronze figures by Lee Lawrie on the east entrance doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building in Washington D.C.
Front door to the preserved home which was the birthplace of John Adams who would become one of the Founding Fathers, patriot, signer to the Declaration of Independence, the first U.S. Vice-President and second President. Today it is part of the Adams National Historic Park in Quincy, MA.
John continued living here after marrying Abigail, their farmland surrounding this area near the foot of Penn's Hill. It is said that Abigail walked up Penn's Hill with her young son, John Quincy, to watch the burning of Charlestown after the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. And of even greater significance, in present day this house is just a block down the street from the Dunkin Donuts where I regularly purchase a coffee ;-)
Hopetoun House near Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland, is a country house owned by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust, a charity established in 1974 to preserve the House and Grounds as a national monument and to protect and improve their amenities, and to preserve for the benefit of the nation the furniture, paintings, manuscripts and other articles of historical or artistic interest associated with the House. The south wing of the house is occupied by the family of The 4th Marquess of Linlithgow as their family home. The house was built 1699-1701 and designed by Sir William Bruce. The house was then hugely extended from 1721 by William Adam until his death in 1748, being one of his most notable projects. The interior was completed by his sons John Adam and Robert Adam. The magnificent entrance hall dates from 1752. The Hope family acquired the land in the 17th century and operated lead mines. Charles Hope, the first occupant, was only 16 years old when his mother, Lady Margaret Hope, signed the contract for building with William Bruce, on 28 September 1698. The master mason is noted as Tobias Bachope of Alloa. The plumber and glazier was John Forster of Berwick. The house was the site of the departure of the visit of King George IV to Scotland on the 29th August 1822 and the knighthood of Captain Adam Ferguson and Henry Raeburn. The English garden style landscape park in which it lies were laid out in 1725, also by William Adam. The east front centres on the distant isle of Inchgarvie and North Berwick Law. The walled garden dates from the late 18th century. In the grounds an 18th-century mound was excavated in 1963 to reveal the remains of the earlier manor house, Abercorn Castle, dating from the 15th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetoun_House
Sculptured bronze figures by Lee Lawrie on the east entrance doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building in Washington D.C.
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Adams Family Home, first occupied by former President John and wife Abigail Adams, part of the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, MA. Currently closed for the season.
Sculptured bronze figures by Lee Lawrie on the east entrance doors of the Library of Congress John Adams Building in Washington D.C.
As a rule I'm not necessarily a big sepia fan, but I was having some fun with this one. This is the Adams House in Quincy, MA, or “Peacefield,” as John Adams called it. John and his wife, Abigail, resided here from 1787 -1826 (although four of those years he was the U.S. President). Four generations of Adams family members lived in this house until 1927. The property became a National Historic Site in 1946. Today it is part of the Adams National Historic Park which attracts in excess of 160,000 visitors per season.
The United First Parish Church is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Quincy, Massachusetts. The church was completed in 1828.
It is called the Church of the Presidents because two American Presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, attended the church along with their wives, Abigail Adams and Louisa Catherine Adams.
The pew in which they sat is marked with a plaque and ribbon on the side.
All four are interred beneath the church in a family crypt.
Being the second U.S. President's home town, John Adams is a big deal in Quincy, MA. This mural of Adams was painted on one side of the former F.W. Woolworth building in Quincy Center. The mural, one of two, was done to draw attention to a pop-up art gallery set up inside. Alas, none of this will be around for long as the building is scheduled for demolition in the near future.
Built by a Native American Culture or a migrant European population? No one knows for sure. A maze of man-made chambers, walls and ceremonial meeting places, America's Stonehenge is most likely the oldest man-made construction in the United States (over 4000 years old).
60058 “John Adams” has almost completed loading the Cawood containers for Northern Ireland and will shortly depart the colliery, running as 6Z72.
Canon EOS 1DS
28/80mm/F2.8
60/F3.5
Fuji Provia 100F
The Adams National Historical Park is in Quincy, MA. It includes the birthplaces of both John and John Quincy Adams and their later home.
In 1788, the Adams moved into a larger house known as the Old House or Peacefield. The house was built in 1731 by Leonard Vassall.
Peacefield was John Adam’s home during his presidency and where he lived during retirement. It became the residence of the Adams family for four generations from 1788 to 1927.
We visited the national park in July 1984.
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
– John Adams (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801)
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence to announce the colonies' separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain and establishing the United States of America. This is the 'it' reference in John Adam's quote above...the thing to be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations (like fireworks) forever! Happy 4th of July!!
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
The original RAW files for all 4 photos above were taken with a Nikon D5200 and processed with Adobe Camera Raw. Final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6 where all were combined into one image and text was added.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
It's -5 degrees Celsius this Saturday morning at Wellbeck Colliery as 60058 "John Adams" is captured loading the Cawood containers for Northern Ireland. The train has a scheduled departure time of 5.00pm, but will probably leave a couple of hours earlier. The working number is 6Z72 and the Driver in charge today is a certain Mr. John Freeman.
Canon EOS 1DS
28/80mm/F2.8 60/F3.5
Fuji Provia 100F
“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.”
- John Adams
On July 4th, 1986, the 100th anniversary of France gifting us the Statue of Liberty, President Ronald Reagan boarded the USS John F. Kennedy in New York Harbor to discuss the importance of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the inherent bravery of all 56 men who signed it. The President spoke at 9:50 p.m. on board the ship where he also attended a USO show as well as a reenlistment & military promotion ceremony for members of the crew. The following is exerts from his speech:
"My remarks tonight will be brief, but it's worth remembering that all the celebration of this day is rooted in history. It's recorded that shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia celebrations took place throughout the land, and many of the former Colonists -- they were just starting to call themselves Americans -- set off cannons and marched in fife and drum parades. What a contrast with the sober scene that had taken place a short time earlier in Independence Hall. Fifty-six men came forward to sign the parchment. It was noted at the time that they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors. And that was more than rhetoric; each of those men knew the penalty for high treason to the Crown. ``We must all hang together,'' Benjamin Franklin said, ``or, assuredly, we will all hang separately.'' And John Hancock, it is said, wrote his signature in large script so King George could see it without his spectacles. They were brave. They stayed brave through all the bloodshed of the coming years. Their courage created a nation built on a universal claim to human dignity, on the proposition that every man, woman, and child had a right to a future of freedom.
. . .
All through our history, our Presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only permanent danger to the hope that is America, comes from within. It's easy enough to dismiss this as a kind of familiar exhortation. Yet the truth is that even two of our greatest Founding Fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, once learned this lesson late in life. They'd worked so closely together in Philadelphia for independence. But once that was gained and a government was formed, something called partisan politics began to get in the way. After a bitter and divisive campaign, Jefferson defeated Adams for the Presidency in 1800. And the night before Jefferson's inauguration, Adams slipped away to Boston, disappointed, brokenhearted, and bitter. For years their estrangement lasted. But then when both had retired, Adams at 76 to Quincy & Jefferson at 68 to Monticello, they began through their letters to speak again to each other. Letters that discussed almost every conceivable subject: gardening, horseback riding, even sneezing as a cure for hiccups; but other subjects as well: the loss of loved ones, the mystery of grief and sorrow, the importance of religion, and of course the last thoughts, the final hopes of two old men, two great patriarchs, for the country that they had helped to found and loved so deeply. ``It carries me back,'' Jefferson wrote about correspondence with his cosigner of the Declaration of Independence, ``to the times when, beset with difficulties and dangers, we were fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable to man, his right to self-government. Laboring always at the same oar, with some wave ever ahead threatening to overwhelm us and yet passing harmless...we rowed through the storm with heart and hand....''It was their last gift to us, this lesson in brotherhood, in tolerance for each other, this insight into America's strength as a nation. And when both died on the same day within hours of each other, that date was July 4th, 50 years exactly after that first gift to us, the Declaration of Independence.
My fellow Americans, it falls to us to keep faith with them and all the great Americans of our past. Believe me, if there's one impression I carry with me after the privilege of holding for 5\1/2\ years the office held by Adams and Jefferson and Lincoln, it is this: that the things that unite us -- America's past of which we're so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much-loved country -- these things far outweigh what little divides us. And so tonight we reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans. Tonight, with heart and hand, through whatever trial and travail, we pledge ourselves to each other and to the cause of human freedom, the cause that has given light to this land and hope to the world."
-- President Ronald Reagan (7/4/1986)
And, today, as we celebrate this Independence Day or 4th of July, these words, spoken by one of the greatest American Presidents to ever serve, are more true than ever before. And, as a proud American, I pray that these warnings will be heard and heeded by all...Happy 4th of July!
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 2000
‧ Aperture – f/9
‧ Exposure – 1/40 second
‧ Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
Inveraray Castle has been the seat of the Dukes of Argyll, chiefs of Clan Campbell, since the 18th century. The structure was primarily built in the mid 18th century from green Lapis Ollaris and is an early example of the Gothic Revival Style. Additional interior work by Robert Mylne and Robert Adam in the late 18th century.
It has been the seat of the Dukes of Argyll, chiefs of Clan Campbell, since the 18th century.