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No Place for a Wall
Austin: Sanctuary City
Can Beto flip Texas?
Time of the Kingfish
More than Mardi Gras
Mississippi Delta blues
Holding off extinction
The guns of Fort Pickens
Jimmy Carter, Southern man
Black history is American history
Pin Point's American Story
Finding Hope Along the Road
Charleston, where the past is always present
One nation, divisible
Report from Cape Fear
Telling Wilmington's Secrets
Trouble Under the Dome
The new face of Old Virginia
John Brown's Missing Bell
Dark days in Puerto Rico
Of Moose and Men
The Dark History of Witch City
Beyond Identity Politics
Rockefeller's roads and the trail to the summit
The mill, the mountain and the monument
Politics and introspection at Yale
Back on Campus
Revisiting Reconstruction
Politics under the Big Sky
Tell everyone's story
Smoke in the Big Sky
Where the living is easy
Malaga Island and Africatown
The Opioid Emergency
The ghosts of Gettysburg
The Rust Belt's shiny buckle
The 100-mile view
Saratoga's faint echoes
The healing powers of vacation
Tinkering with legalization
Where the hippies won
Another defeat for Robert E. Lee
The divided states of America
A spring heat wave in Maine
In search of great trees
Opposition vs. Inspiration
Your brain on drugs
What's up Down East
The intentional tourist
Journalism vs. propaganda
Master of the seas
America's original divide
Finding America in its music
A presidential history lesson
Same pew, different churches
Who'll patch up America?
Time for this editor to hit the road
The president we'll miss
The tests facing Trump
2016: Weirdest year ever?
Attack of the smartphones
The endocannabinoid revolution
Take down the POW flags

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Home
About
Road trip
Gallery
Contact
Commentary
Show the National Parks some love
History and legend in the Wild West
Love and Voting
When Poverty Was a Priority
Teaching Jefferson Davis' History
No Place for a Wall
Austin: Sanctuary City
Can Beto flip Texas?
Time of the Kingfish
More than Mardi Gras
Mississippi Delta blues
Holding off extinction
The guns of Fort Pickens
Jimmy Carter, Southern man
Black history is American history
Pin Point's American Story
Finding Hope Along the Road
Charleston, where the past is always present
One nation, divisible
Report from Cape Fear
Telling Wilmington's Secrets
Trouble Under the Dome
The new face of Old Virginia
John Brown's Missing Bell
Dark days in Puerto Rico
Of Moose and Men
The Dark History of Witch City
Beyond Identity Politics
Rockefeller's roads and the trail to the summit
The mill, the mountain and the monument
Politics and introspection at Yale
Back on Campus
Revisiting Reconstruction
Politics under the Big Sky
Tell everyone's story
Smoke in the Big Sky
Where the living is easy
Malaga Island and Africatown
The Opioid Emergency
The ghosts of Gettysburg
The Rust Belt's shiny buckle
The 100-mile view
Saratoga's faint echoes
The healing powers of vacation
Tinkering with legalization
Where the hippies won
Another defeat for Robert E. Lee
The divided states of America
A spring heat wave in Maine
In search of great trees
Opposition vs. Inspiration
Your brain on drugs
What's up Down East
The intentional tourist
Journalism vs. propaganda
Master of the seas
America's original divide
Finding America in its music
A presidential history lesson
Same pew, different churches
Who'll patch up America?
Time for this editor to hit the road
The president we'll miss
The tests facing Trump
2016: Weirdest year ever?
Attack of the smartphones
The endocannabinoid revolution
Take down the POW flags
 Big Bend National Park, Texas

Big Bend National Park, Texas

 Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico

Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico

 Cypress, McKinney State Park, Texas.

Cypress, McKinney State Park, Texas.

 Inside the dome of the Texas State Capitol, Austin.

Inside the dome of the Texas State Capitol, Austin.

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 The atrium in the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La.

The atrium in the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La.

 Sculpture dedicated to AIDS victims, New Orleans.

Sculpture dedicated to AIDS victims, New Orleans.

 St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery, New Orleans

St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery, New Orleans

 Lake Martin swamp, near Lafayette, La.

Lake Martin swamp, near Lafayette, La.

 Mardi Gras in Eunice, La.

Mardi Gras in Eunice, La.

 Pin Point, Georgia

Pin Point, Georgia

 The Angel Oak, outside Charleston, SC.

The Angel Oak, outside Charleston, SC.

 The Diamond Causeway, Skidaway Island, Georgia

The Diamond Causeway, Skidaway Island, Georgia

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 John Brown's Fort, where the abolitionist's intended slave rebellion came to an end, in Harpers Ferry, WV.

John Brown's Fort, where the abolitionist's intended slave rebellion came to an end, in Harpers Ferry, WV.

 Harpers Ferry, WV, where the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers converge.

Harpers Ferry, WV, where the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers converge.

 Ginkgo leaves at the Virginia State Arboretum.

Ginkgo leaves at the Virginia State Arboretum.

 Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine.

Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine.

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 The view from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.

The view from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.

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Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn

White stones mark where soldiers fell on the Little Bighorn Battlefield.

Gus

Gus

Gus, a 100-year-old larch (tamarack) tree near Seeley Lake, Montana.

South Pond

South Pond

A quiet "summer place" in Vermont.

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Riding the Incline

Riding the Incline

Pittsburgh, Penn.

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 Georgetown Island, Mid-Coast Maine.

Georgetown Island, Mid-Coast Maine.

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 The Duffie Oak, in Mobile, Ala.

The Duffie Oak, in Mobile, Ala.

 Marlboro, Vermont

Marlboro, Vermont

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 This was deemed a "significant tree" because it was growing here in Sunderland, Mass., at the time of the signing of the Constitution.

This was deemed a "significant tree" because it was growing here in Sunderland, Mass., at the time of the signing of the Constitution.

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 The Alabama River at dawn.

The Alabama River at dawn.

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 Selma Bridge Re-crossing, 2017

Selma Bridge Re-crossing, 2017

 A wall of gold records at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

A wall of gold records at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

 Broadway, Nashville's center of honkytonk tourism.

Broadway, Nashville's center of honkytonk tourism.

 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

 Cleveland, where else, in summer of 2016.

Cleveland, where else, in summer of 2016.

 The Kennebec River, Bath, Me.

The Kennebec River, Bath, Me.

 Near Georgetown, Me.

Near Georgetown, Me.

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 The Mass. Turnpike in the Berkshires

The Mass. Turnpike in the Berkshires

 A tobacco barn in the Pioneer Valley, western Mass.

A tobacco barn in the Pioneer Valley, western Mass.

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 Near Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Near Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

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 Railroad tracks, West Springfield, Mass.

Railroad tracks, West Springfield, Mass.

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Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg Battlefield

One of a half-dozen or so "witness trees," this tree above Devil's Den was a sapling when the battle raged all around it.

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 Big Bend National Park, Texas
 Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico
 Cypress, McKinney State Park, Texas.
 Inside the dome of the Texas State Capitol, Austin.
IMG_0767.JPG
 The atrium in the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La.
 Sculpture dedicated to AIDS victims, New Orleans.
 St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery, New Orleans
 Lake Martin swamp, near Lafayette, La.
 Mardi Gras in Eunice, La.
 Pin Point, Georgia
 The Angel Oak, outside Charleston, SC.
 The Diamond Causeway, Skidaway Island, Georgia
dome.jpg
IMG_6906.JPG
 John Brown's Fort, where the abolitionist's intended slave rebellion came to an end, in Harpers Ferry, WV.
 Harpers Ferry, WV, where the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers converge.
 Ginkgo leaves at the Virginia State Arboretum.
 Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine.
IMG_5248.jpg
 The view from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.
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Little Bighorn
Gus
South Pond
Gettysburg
Riding the Incline
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bridge.jpg
 Georgetown Island, Mid-Coast Maine.
Georgetown1.JPG
 The Duffie Oak, in Mobile, Ala.
 Marlboro, Vermont
IMG_2522.jpg
 This was deemed a "significant tree" because it was growing here in Sunderland, Mass., at the time of the signing of the Constitution.
IMG_2443.jpg
 The Alabama River at dawn.
Selma.jpg
 Selma Bridge Re-crossing, 2017
 A wall of gold records at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
 Broadway, Nashville's center of honkytonk tourism.
 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
 Cleveland, where else, in summer of 2016.
 The Kennebec River, Bath, Me.
 Near Georgetown, Me.
MeadowsOfDan.jpeg
 The Mass. Turnpike in the Berkshires
 A tobacco barn in the Pioneer Valley, western Mass.
Roosevelt Park.jpeg
 Near Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
SouthboroughReservoir.jpeg
 Railroad tracks, West Springfield, Mass.
Cape Cod bench.jpeg
smart phone public garden.jpeg
Gettysburg Battlefield
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