It was Friday July 11, 2014 and I was in Springfield, Illinois; just a few miles from where Abraham Lincoln had lived for 16 years before becoming President. My head was shaking with excitement as we left the motel and…
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19: NO PRESIDENTIAL SKELTON IN MY CLOSET
Wednesday July 9, 2014 was a day of rest and relaxation for me as my photographer and his wife took Nashville by storm; well, maybe it was more like a slight sprinkle. I knew they had planned on winging it…
18: ROCKIN’ THE COUNTRY IN NASHVILLE
“Music City, U.S.A.” awaited me on July 8, 2014; I was up early and anxious to get into downtown Nashville. I knew of five Presidential sites there and I believed that we could walk to each one of them with…
17: JAMES K. WAS COLUMBIA’S ‘SPECIAL K’
The final Presidential stop of July 7, 2014 sent us south of Nashville for over 40 miles and into the heart of Columbia, Tennessee where we found the ancestral home of James K. Polk. Even though we drove a long…
16: I WALK THE LINE TO OLD HICKORY
My peaceful night standing alongside the TV in our Bowling Green, Kentucky motel room was uneventful, except for a time or two when a small release of ‘hot dog energy’ came from my photographer, or more likely, his wife. It…
15: WHERE GREATNESS WAS BORN
At 4:10pm on June 6, 2014, we arrived at the Hodgenville, Kentucky birthplace site of our 16th President Abraham Lincoln. It was hot, we had been on the road since 4:30am, and we had about 45 minutes to tour the…
14: MY OLD KENTUCKY TOMB
It was nearly 2:00pm on July 6, 2014 when we arrived at the Louisville, Kentucky boyhood home of Zachary Taylor; a house that was named ‘Springfield’ by his father after he built the place in the early 1790s. At the…
13: HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
It was early morning on July 6, 2014; just two weeks after my last tour of duty. I was in my usual spot in the Avenger; safely packed away in my camera case that sat securely on the car’s back…
12. I HAD MY FILL OF FILLMORE
Before nightfall, we had planned on being in Watkins Glen, New York so that my photographer and his wife could attend the wedding of Mark Mortimer and Margaret Franzese the following day. I was hoping to see Mark again as…
11. WINGIN’ IT IN BUFFALO
My visit to the Ansley Wilcox house had put me through the full spectrum of emotions; from excitement to relief. It was exciting for me to stand in the room where Theodore Roosevelt first became our 26th President; and at…