Athol, Massachusetts Uptown Common

This photo was taken about an hour after sunset at the Uptown Common of Athol a small town in the North Central part of Massachusetts, about one hour north of Worcester and 90 minutes east of Boston.  Featured is the Athol Woman’s Club Memory Tree, a special way for townspeople to honor and remember their [...]

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Orange, Mass. Peace Statue

  This, the season of light for so many cultures–and the season in which we all pray for Peace on Earth, seems to be just the right time to post this photo of Orange’s Peace Statue.  This is actually the official peace statue of Massachusetts, designated as such by the legislature in 1998.  It is [...]

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Union Soldiers–A Re-enactment

  These men gathered, in authentic Civil War Union attire, at the new Gettysburg Memorial Visitor’s Center in Pennsylvania.  They demonstrated military formations and mock-firing of weapons.  Gettysburg was amazing—the brand-new museum (visitor’s center) as well as the battlefield tour, which I did with the aid of an audio CD and a map.  I posted this in honor [...]

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Gettysburg Cemetery–In Honor of Our Veterans

  I like the juxtaposition here of the cannon and the cemetery—cause and effect.  This is the cemetery in which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address:  “…that these dead shall not have died in vain, and that Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.” (Panasonic [...]

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Princess and the Pumpkin

  For those of us who love cats, I wanted to post this seasonal photo of our Princess, getting ready for Thanksgiving.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!   (Sony Cybershot, 5.0 megapixels, other info. not saved)

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