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Massachusetts, United States

Lots to see and do

MIT, Harvard, Wellesley, Amherst, Williams and 100 other colleges, Cape Cod, the Berkshires, Cape Ann…. Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox… MFA and 20 other notable museums, Sturbridge Village, Plimoth Plantation, Freedom Trail…New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont just an hour away… Provincetown to Stockbridge, Rockport to Woods Hole….

over 6 years ago

Coudersport, Pennsylvania

Family Plot

My family was all over town 100 years ago, including the town M.D., the Engineer and Conductor on the local railroad, the lady who did the quilt that is on display in the Hist. Society, the guy who ran the jewelry store, the Minister at the Presbyterian church, a bunch of guys at Masonic Hall, and a whole lineup of old guys laid out on the hill at Eulalia Cemetery. Someday I’ll be up there, too. A nice quiet, pretty little small-town America County-Seat type of place. Not a big tourist center, though. What do you do on Saturday night?

over 6 years ago

Verdun, Lorraine

Humbling

Worth visiting if you are not intimidated by the idea of 1 million men violently dead standing over your shoulder. I visited in 1992. They were still adding bones on a daily basis to the 100,000s collected in the unknown soldier’s ossuary, digging them out of the old fortifications as they searched for unexploded shells.

Whenever President Bush or one of his moronic sidekicks made an ignorant comment about French soldiery, this is what I thought of. I have paid my respects at Pearl Harbor and many times at Gettysburg where an ancestor fought. They don’t carry nearly the emotional impact of this place — the air is heavy with the aura of lost heros.

over 6 years ago
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