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Category: Travel

Flying to Alaska in Minature

If you have been reading the posts here, you may recall some photos from a trip to Alaska back in ’65. For any number of reasons that was quite a vacation. One of the highlights was, for me, my first airplane flight. We flew from Seattle-Tacoma to Anchorage on Pacific …

Whitby Abby

Whitby Abbey, across from the town of Whitby, North Yorkshite, UK
Whitby Abbey, across from the town of Whitby, North Yorkshite, UK
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The Famous Watermelon

The Lincoln Watermelon
This aluminum statue of a watermelon in Lincoln, IL commemorates the naming of the town by Abraham Lincoln. Associates of Lincoln suggested the name, and the future president christened the town by pouring juice from a watermelon that had been scooped out with a tin cup. Mr. Lincoln is reported to have said at the moment, “I’ve never known anything by the name of Lincoln that has ever amounted to much.”
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