Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia – February 2019
Wow, has American history come alive for me on this trip! I keep getting insights about how the natural resources attracted native peoples and their subsistence lives, then colonial settlement and their resource-extraction economies. How the labor forces evolved to...
Misc. Northern Virginia – February 2019
Like many states, Virginia has several fairly distinct regions. Alexandria is a suburb of Washington, DC and in fact, used to be within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. The Leesburg area, 40 miles away from Washington, was primarily farmland and small towns...
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Natl Monument, Church Creek, Maryland – February 2019
I had a basic sketch of Harriet Tubman in my head. Underground Railroad. Led scores of enslaved people to freedom in the north. But really, I had to be with the enormity of this. She had spent her life as a slave, mostly separated from her family, performing brutally...
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