Friday, June 24, 2016

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

The long-time headquarters of the National Women's Party became one of the newest national park units (#thanksobama) on April 11, 2016 -- also Equal Pay Day.

Motto of the National Women's Party
The Thinking Woman... 



#votesforwomen!


"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. 
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
~ 19th Amendment (1920)



We've come so far but we've got so far to go



#someday

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt Island








Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

19 foot, 43 ton block of sunset red granite quarried
 35 miles from the LBJ Ranch in TX




"All my life I have drawn sustenance from the rivers and from the hills of my native state. ... I want no less for the all the children of America than what I was privileged to have as a boy."
~President Lyndon Baines Johnson


And so: "The Johnson Administration added 3.6 million acres of land to the National Park System, including Redwood National Park, Arches National Monument and many others."


The LBJ Memorial, located in Lady Bird Johnson Park, was intended to "be a living place where people could enjoy the pleasures and beauties of nature, not a great stone building or a bronze or marble statue." 

And, so we RECREATE:
#epicjumpingshot #recreating


Saturday, June 4, 2016

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Steamtown National Historic Site

An industrial heritage site dedicated to the role that steam railroad transportation - and the people who made it happen - played within America's Industrial Revolution.





View from a ride on a the "Scranton Limited" locomotive