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Cadillac Mountain located on Mount Desert Island in the Acadia National Park in Maine is the highest spot in the North Atlantic Seaboard. It’s one of 20 mountains on the Maine Island. Cadillac Mountain is named after the Frenchman, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac.
My daughter snapped this wonderful capture on the summit while I was firing away with little Rocky by my side who spotted her shooting.
Took a trip to New Orleans. I had never been there before, don't really need to go back to the French Quarter, but the other sites around the city are very interesting
The lonely COSTER AVENUE MURAL at Kuhn’s Brickyard was designed by Civil War descendant Mark H. Dunkelman, who painted it together with noted muralist Johan Bjurman.
The mural was dedicated on the 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and it’s an important monument to the clash between Colonel Charles Coster’s Union forces and the Confederate brigade led by General Harry Hays. It is consistently identified as one of the least visited memorials in Gettysburg.
Coster’s troops were positioned as a rearguard to protect fleeing Union forces that had not fared well in the preceding battle. They found themselves almost completely unprotected and were forced to make their stand behind a modest wooden fence.
The Confederates significantly outnumbered the Union soldiers and the battle degraded into brutal hand-to-hand combat. Confederate forces, led by Hays and Colonel Isaac Avery, surrounded and killed 563 of Coster’s men while losing nearly 200 of their own.
Photographed at Denali National Park. “Denali” is the only National Park in the United States that trains and maintains dog sled teams. The sled teams are used by park rangers to patrol the wilderness areas of the park in winter where motorized vehicles (snowmobiles) are prohibited. The winter temperatures routinely drop to -20 degrees Fahrenheit. However, because of the unique physiology of these dogs they are quite comfortable at these extreme temperatures. In fact, when invited indoors by rangers on very cold nights the dogs often prefer to sleep out doors. I have been enamored of these magnificent and beautiful dogs for a very long time.
National Park Service
Chattahoochee National Park(Atlanta, GA) Settles Bridge
2009 Chevy Tahoe
(special thanks to the Ranger who allowed me to take a pic of his truck)
Late on 17 September 1862, the final hours of the Battle at Antietam (US Civil War) took place in the vicinity of Lower Bridge.
History is definitely not my strong point. And I certainly do not understand war. So for details of Antietam, I refer you to the NPS.