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Welcome to my site. I love history and I love to travel, so here I combine the best of both worlds. I visit historical sites around the United States and include all the good I find and anything new that I learn. If I find a rip-off or a poor value I include that too.
Hotels get a towel rating of 1-10 and I usually don't travel in tens.
In restaurants, I tell you about the good eats I find and whether you should drive out of your way for the price.
I try and include info for students, parents and teachers to use and some of it is a little quirky. I also try to inform as to what historical sites need our support or if there is a big event coming up. I will continue to add pages and revisit sites to improve information, so it will pay to check back.
All hotel and restaurant sites have been cleared to make way for the sites I will be checking out this summer, 2009.
I will also include warnings of areas where you need to be careful. I learned the hard way, because no one gave me a heads up. I won't leave you hanging.
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DEAR FRIENDS in HISTORY!
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GOOD LUCK TO THE NEW PRESIDENT !
Michelle Obama
First Lady
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington D.C., 20500
2/5/2009
Dear Mrs. Obama,
I am writing to request your consideration of an idea that will help the country and embrace the countries history, while supporting it. The idea is that instead of using only Washington D.C. sites for backdrops for speeches, that you, your husband, the Vice President and members of the Cabinet use historical sites instead.
As is the President, I, too, am a history enthusiast and my hobby is visiting, writing about and running a web page about historical sites all over our country. As I travel around, I am saddened, for example, by the poor upkeep of many of the houses used by General Washington during the Revolution. It is not that people aren’t trying; they are forming groups and doing their best to maintain the sites. It is more that our fellow Americans are bypassing the smaller sites for the big sites. In General Washington’s case, travelers go to Mt. Vernon and not for example the Wallace House of New Jersey or the DeWint House in Tappan New York among many. There is the problem, Washington was home once during the Revolution. The other eight years of the war, he moved from house to house through nine states as he planned battles, strategy, and met with many of the other great Revolutionary figures.
“Our trade is preserving the real historic place, in real time, for this and future generations to see and experience—to get a 'charge,' if you will. That experience and a thousand others like it—different in scale or purpose—are the true value of historic preservation. They transform past into present, and present into future—giving context to ideas and anchorage to experience." Robert G. Stanton, director, National Park Service, upon NPS receiving the Louise du Pont Crown in shield Award
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“If we wish to have a future with greater meaning, we must concern ourselves...with the total heritage of the nation and all that is worth preserving from our past as a living part of the present.”
-- With Heritage So Rich, 1966
If you and the President think my idea worthy of your consideration, and use the historical sites as backdrops, then over the next four years (hopefully eight), I believe the public will seek them out and support them. Certainly, the Secretary of State could easily use a number of General Washington’s sites to deliver her speeches on co-operation between countries. There are sixty some Washington sites and countless other historical sites that would all benefit from the exposure. I hope the idea will be one that will be adopted.
Don't repeat history, read my page and learn from my mistakes.
ve The Parthenon in Nashville Tenn.
Washington's Crossing on the Pennsylvania side.
Jackson Square in New Orleans.
No photograph on these pages may be used with out my permission!
