PA memories

[Dragging ourselves out of bed and deep sleep early in the morning to capture the mysterious, almost eerie, scenery.  They have ghost tours around town as well, so Craig and I were trying to spook each other out as we drove through the fog. 

It was refreshing to see the landscape here:  big, open spaces, crop fields, pretty towns with tall white steeples jutting out,  rolling hills in the distance, just like the picturesque American country of Grandma Moses' fame.  (We just missed out on seeing Amish country in these parts).  

Our history tour around Richmond, Washington DC and Gettysburg fostered friendship, adventure, and heaps of photo ops!   Here we are at our lodge before heading back home; Fall Break, 2008]

 

lincoln’s address

The opening lines of one of the most powerful speeches in American history, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address , reads:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty….

 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 

[The civil war, as it turns out, was more than just a fight for national unity and abolition of slavery.  With war comes death, destruction, and dollars.  Economy wrapped in armory, armory mangled in economy.  

We acknowledge what Lincoln and other abolitionists did to fight injustice and inequality in their time but sadly, there are still exploited people in this country and the world over.  As George Orwell wrote, "All animals are created equal but some are more equal than others".  To that we add, all animals are created free but some are more free than others. October 2008]