First Saturday in June is National Trails Day.
It’s a life-changing celebration, if you get out on a trail, and then keep going.
Check with the American Hiking Society to see if there’s an event near you. Take a hike in any case.
Maybe take a photo. There’s an annual photo contest.
2015 National Trails Day photograph winner, from Alexandra Novitske, taken at the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, Colorado. American Hiking Society
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Well, maybe chess game of the not rich and not famous.
“Attica Correctional Facility, New York 1972, Cornell Capa #photography.” @Paolo1264
Chess is a great way to soothe a fevered mind, relax, and strengthen reasoning skills.
Photo by Cornell Capa:
Cornell Capa (April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imre Madách Gymnasium in Budapest, he initially intended to study medicine, but instead joined his brother in Paris to pursue photography. Cornell was an ambitious photo enthusiast who founded the world-known International Center of Photography in New York in 1974[2] with help from Micha Bar-Am after a stint of working for both Life magazine and Magnum Photos.
I wonder who were the two men playing the game? What happened to them?
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Kentucky joined the union on June 1, 1792, the 15th state. Tennessee joined four years later, on June 1, 1796, becoming the 16th state.
Fly your flags today in Kentucky and Tennessee — or wherever Kentuckians or Tennesseeans may be — in honor of statehood.
U.S. and Tennessee flags flying together on one staff. Photo by J. Stephen Conn
Kentucky’s state flag features a Native American and European colonist standing together, and the state motto, “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” Photo by Gage Skidmore
Kentucky’s admission to the union pushed the U.S. flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes. President George Washington signed the law that authorized the U.S. flag be expanded to 15 stripes in early 1794. I’ve not pinned down the history of what happened next. So far as I know there was no law expanding the flag to 16 stripes, and in 1818, Congress said the flag would be 13 stripes, with stars equal to the number of states (the law specified no specific pattern for the stars).
A 15-striped Star-spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor in 1814 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that is now the lyric to our national anthem. President James Monroe signed the 13-stripe law four years later, in 1818.
What happened in between? I suspect there are a lot of 15-stripe flags, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find a 16-stripe flag somewhere. A variety of stars-and-stripes flags cropped up, which the 1818 law was intended to squelch.
Residents of the Bluegrass State and the Volunteer State should fly their flags today, in honor of their state’s having joined the union on June 1.
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https://twitter.com/gordonbelt/status/738001021708992512
http://twitter.com/hoyosplacido3/status/604008354571259904
Yes, this is mostly an encore post. Fighting ignorance requires patience. And repetition.
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