Throughout the night, as I stood sentinel in our Comfort Inn room that overlooked Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery, I watched for wayward spirits roaming aimlessly around the historic burial ground. I saw none, which was okay with me because I’m not…
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144: RINGIN’ THE BELL OF FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA
For most normal people, Sunday is usually a day of rest and relaxation. Those words don’t exist when my photographer and Mongo are on the road together visiting historic sites, which was the case on Sunday May 23, 2021. As…
142: IN THE FATUOUS FOOTSTEPS OF FORTY-FIVE
For some strange reason, my photographer didn’t set his alarm clock for the morning of Friday May 21, 2021. And because of that, Tom got an extra nine minutes of sleep before we headed out on our final day in…
124: “FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO”
Thirty-three days had passed since my trip with my photographer and Mongo to Canton and Kent, Ohio. While the COVID-19 pandemic had seemed to slow a bit in the past month, it was definitely not over. Luckily for us, hotels…
121: TIPPECANOE AND LINCOLN, TOO
The Sun had already risen over the Mississippi in Louisiana, Missouri on Sunday morning July 28, 2019. My photographer’s grand scheme of shooting images of a beautiful sunrise over the river went awry; he couldn’t get his butt out of…
102: ENTOMBED, YET ALIVE, IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL
When the alarm clock went off at exactly 6:00am on Thursday May 16, 2019, my first thought of the new day was I was happy to be alive. Although my head was still kinked slightly to the right and both…
97: THE LEGACY OF LINCOLN WAS ALIVE IN RICHMOND
By 3:00pm on May 12, 2019, we had completed the 16-mile drive from Tuckahoe Plantation to Hollywood Cemetery. The first thing that popped into my resin-filled head when I heard we were in Hollywood was whether or not I would…
44: ‘SHOW ME’ AROUND MISSOURI
It was 2016 and after a long winter of standing on my dresser with two broken legs, it was time once again to face surgery. From the icy grip of Old Man Winter until May, my photographer had grappled with…
28: THAT FATEFUL NIGHT AT FORD’S
Two things went through my mind when the alarm clock went off at 6:00am on Sunday July 20, 2014: First, it was the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his historic first steps on the surface of the Moon. Second,…
20: LINCOLN’S LEGEND LIVES IN SPRINGFIELD
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…