“Oh, you should have been here last week” people say – or, ”You’re going to miss a big one next weekend”. We’ve yet to be at the right site at the right time to experience a re-enactment. This time, we violate the sanctity of the spontaneous RV lifestyle, and plan ahead by a day or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fall 2010 trip’
Finally, a Civil War Re-enactment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Battle of Cedar Creek Re-enactment, Civil War Sites, Fall 2010 trip on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Harper’s Ferry and the Civil War at the KOA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil War Sites, Fall 2010 trip, Harper's Ferry, Maryland on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my high-school mind, Harper’s Ferry has always been pretty much synonymous with abolitionist John Brown’s Raid. This is definitely the spot, and there’s a major exhibit that deals with Brown and his companions, what they believed, their bloody attempt to seize the weapons at the arsenal here, and the historical aftermath. But almost every [...]
The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Catholic sites, Fall 2010 trip, Maryland, National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife, mother, and widow before she converted to the Catholic faith, founded the Sisters of Charity – and wound up being the first U.S. born canonized saint. Like many other mothers throughout history, she got a lot done. Stone House was the first permanent home of Mother Seton, her children [...]
Passing through Hershey to Gettysburg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dobbin House Tavern, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Fall 2010 trip, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We took a “simulated factory ride” at Taste of Hershey. Not a Disney-quality ride, and not a factory tour. Maybe if we’d brought kids along with us it would have been more fun, but I kind of doubt it – I think Chris had higher standards, even 20 years ago. Gettysburg, on the other hand, [...]
Ephrata Cloister and a Packer game
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ephrata Cloister, Fall 2010 trip, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Sunday, and we’re here at Ephrata Cloister, to learn about this 18th century religious community – while, religiously, coming back to the Navion to catch the score/watch the Packer game. We missed Mass today, so our worship has obviously taken a different form. I listen to what life was like for the [...]
Lancaster County, PA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beacon Hill Campground, Fall 2010 trip, Lancaster County, PA on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the view out my bedroom window. After a few hours we get used to the clomp clomp clomping of horses hoofs, a few feet away. Amish carriages pass by here continually. Much closer than this corn picker. I can raise my head off my pillow and see them pass by. It’s [...]
Longwood Gardens, PA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fall 2010 trip, Longwood Gardens, PA on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll let the gardens speak for themselves. Thank you Pierre du Pont for this beautiful place!
Valley Forge, PA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Revolution, Fall 2010 trip, Pennsylvania, Valley Forge on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Almost every historical site we visit challenges something I thought I knew. Mention Valley Forge, and I envision starving and freezing men in Washington’s army, dying in tattered rags during their winter encampment here. Not so much. Disease killed more men than cold or starvation. And two-thirds of the men who died, did [...]
Moravian Museum at Bethlehem, PA
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bethlehem, Fall 2010 trip, Moravian Settlement, PA on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There’s an historic Bethlehem Partnership that sponsors walking tours of the Moravian settlement here. We took the October themed Graveyard Tour, which included a bit of time at the Moravian Museum (which was otherwise closed) and then followed a costumed interpreter into the graveyard for stories of some of the people buried [...]
The Roosevelts in Hyde Park, NY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fall 2010 trip, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, New York, Presidential Sites on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
FDR was born in this house, and he’s buried here in the Rose Garden. Most everyone knows a fair amount about all that happened in between. It’s the third Roosevelt home we’ve toured since we got the Navion almost two years ago (search “FDR’s Little White House, Georgia” and “Campobello Island, NewBrunswick”) and [...]
