When you hear or read the word ladle what comes to mind?
I was downtown Pittsburgh with my friend Jen and we saw this huge LADLE! We’d never seen it before.
Yes, ladle.
But not a soup ladle and not a gravy ladle.
Did we stand next to it to give you a sense of proportion? No we did not.
The National Historic site of the first day of the American Revolution.
Old North Bridge over the Concord River.
A public art installation.
Here’s one of the fiberglass horses around the town of Lexington Massachusetts.
illumi-neigh-ted
Memorial Day Click for history
Watching her father as Taps is played-
2016 Memorial Day Etna, PA
A Day of Remembrance- Originally blogged May 31, 2010 Reblogged in 2016
Muskingum County World War II/Korean War Memorial Zanesville, Ohio
Twenty four notes. Taps.
The Origin of Taps, The Bugler’s Cry by “Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery”
https://youtu.be/Nhtr5J00ntA?si=RA1dZ4Nw86PvxvMn
From my Grandmother Charlotte Rowley Van Sickle’s Rockford High School Annual 1906. I started reading the faculty pages of my grandmothers high school yearbook. I noticed none of the women were married.
And then I went to Find- a -Grave Memorial Search.
Miss Flora Eddy was the head of the local Woman’s Suffrage movement I don’t know what subject she taught, though.
There are too many Louis Cooper listings even with Harvard and All American Track Team as a clue
“Modern museum exploring the chronological evolution of humans, with focus on the Neanderthal period.” Muzej Krapinskih Neandertalaca
Thank you Joanne who sent the article and photographs from Halifax
The Volunteers Bronze Statue in Halifax, at the Waterfront, Nova Scotia (click link for article written when the monument was unveiled in 2017)
“The bronze sculpture, called “The Volunteers,” features three life-sized figures from three generations: A young girl pulling a wagon full of salvaged metal, an African-Nova Scotian woman holding a tray of coffee and sandwiches, and an older woman seated with a Mi’kmaq basket and knitting.”
The sculptor is Marlene Hilton Moore
Ruth from Jack( blog follower and good friend)
Father of Flag Day” honors have been given to William T. Kerr, who was credited with founding the American Flag Day Association in 1888 while still a schoolboy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Keeping evil spirits out of the garden and home- bottle trees were created to catch those evil spirits. Here’s an article about the American Bottle Tree on Smithsonian Gardens blog.
I photographed this blue bottle tree in Lenox CT as we went for early morning coffee in November. The bottle tree has African origins and has now spread across the country but was primarily evident in the South. Now you can order a bottle trees online from you know where.
