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Harrisburg and The First of the Pennsylvania Signers

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

It was around 12:30 on Sunday, June 14, 2009, as my friend Bob and I departed Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in search of more famous and thrilling sites in this fine state. We had already dramatically altered our itinerary by spending quite a bit of time in Gettysburg. In fact by this point just two days into our travels, the itinerary basically went out the window because we decided to zip on over to Harrisburg and get the state capitol tour completed – an activity which hadn’t been scheduled until Friday. Obviously, our original route was a bit questionable. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gettysburg ’09

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

eg10 After we left Charles Town and our awesome visit with Frank Buckles, Bob and I made the only decision of the entire trip that I regret. We had thought that this trip might have a John Brown theme much as our Virginia trip had had somewhat of a Stonewall Jackson theme, so an obvious choice of locations to visit was Harpers Ferry – most noted for the federal arsenal raid by abolitionist John Brown in 1859. However since we were a little behind schedule after just one day’s worth of travel, we decided to skip it. Only later did we realize that we probably would have been okay on time. Read the rest of this entry »

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Grover Cleveland and Me

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

If I were to ask the average person to tell me everything they knew about President Grover Cleveland, the most common answer would probably be that he was the guy who was President – twice! Yes, Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, the first being from 1885-89 (the 22nd President) and then from 1893-97 (the 24th President) – confusing everyone up to and including President Barack Obama as to the actual count of the number of Presidents who have served our country. That’s right…one term wasn’t good enough for this guy. Read the rest of this entry »

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James Buchanan and Me

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

History has not been all that kind to our nation’s 15th President, James Buchanan, who served from 1857-61, for just one desired term. As the chief executive who had preceded Abraham Lincoln, general consensus is that he came to the job reluctantly, sat idly by as the issues of slavery and secession passed him by, and then with relief exited the Presidency – which he had promised that he would do during his inaugural speech – and left the momentous job ahead in the hands of his successor. In nearly all regards, he deserted the sinking ship and is today regarded as one of the worst of U.S. Presidents. Read the rest of this entry »