FPP Paul Revere

I love the American Revolution and thought this night sky and deep navy fabric depicted Paul Revere's nighttime ride contextually well.  I had to remember H.W. Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," and used it in my middle school classroom to teach poem structure.  Though joined by William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, Paul Revere is the most oft-remembered Lexington and Concord Midnight Riders.

 

FPP Cape Cod NS

In 2017, we visited Arcadia NP and the lighthouse, as I wrote a 2015 research paper on the importance of lighthouses internationally and for America in its early stages of nation-building.  We did not see Cape Cod.

FPP Musket

 Cody and I visited the northeast in the spring of 2017.  One of our stops was the Springfield Armory.  Both Springfield and Chickamauga Armories possess an amazing firearm history.

FPP Bears

My Mom is the bear whisperer.  In her first visit to Yellowstone in 2009, she saw a black bear cub climbing a burnt pine.  In 2010, on her visit to the Smokey Mountains National Park, she sees a black bear grazing on the shoulder.  In a return trip to Yellowstone in 2016, Mom sees a bear.  I've really wanted to see a bear in Texas, and though I've been to Big Bend, I've yet to see one.  I guess I need to take Mom with me.

My grizzly from Katmai National Park & Preserve.  In 2002, I camped in Yellowstone and Grand Tetons, and while travelling south along the John D. Rockefeller, Jr Memorial Highway, and Grizzly bolted across the highway.  That was the first time I observed just how fast bears are.  It had been rummaging through campsites on the north side of Grand Tetons.