From January 2016

Funding an Army

If you want to declare independence from another country, you have to have an army.  But if you are a new country, not recognized by anyone, how do you go about funding an army? I will be answering this question in the third installment of The Revolutionary War in a Nutshell. The Second Continental Army …

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A Daily Walk in the Woods

Tom and I try to take a walk in the woods every day.  Some people would call it hiking but we haven’t done anything very rigorous lately, so it is more a walk.  Most days we walk the 1.5 mile trail around King’s Mountain Battlefield which has some ups and downs but is paved.  We …

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Hundreds of Little Soldiers

While Tom and I are working at King’s Mountain, we have been playing with hundreds of little soldiers.  Actually not playing as much as painting hundreds of little soldiers.  And maybe not really hundreds – maybe just 196, but it feels like hundreds!  Part of our job is to do various projects.  I hinted at …

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Snow Days!

Over the weekend King’s Mountain National Military Park was hit by Winter Storm Jonas (The Weather Channel started naming winter storms in 2012 to make them easier to follow) so yesterday and today Tom and I had snow days!  I never expected to have snow days when we retired.  For one thing – Tom and …

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Loyalists and Patriots

In the second installment of “Revolutionary War in a Nutshell” we are going to think about how the two sides are labeled:  Loyalists and Patriots.  I had always thought of the Revolutionary War in terms of British and Americans, but I realized that most of the people fighting on both sides were Americans.  There were …

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A Step Up

Do you need a step up? I am relatively tall for a woman and have always been able to reach things in kitchen cupboards without any problem.  In our RV we have some upper cupboards I can reach into, but I am an inch or two too short to get everything in the cupboard.  When …

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Which Kings Mountain?

One of the confusing things about where we are right now is the abundance of places called Kings Mountain.  There are actually four of them and you have to specify which one when you are talking to people. It can get a little confusing.  When we tell people we volunteer at Kings Mountain, they always …

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235th Anniversary

I had never been to a 235th Anniversary celebration before Saturday.  As part of our job here at King’s Mountain National Military Park, Tom and I got to go to the Battle of Cowpens’ 235th Anniversary celebration on Saturday.  We were able to take pictures and video of the National Park Service cannon crew as …

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Aldersgate United Methodist Church

Yesterday Tom and I attended Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Shelby, North Carolina.  We had intended to return to King’s Mountain, but as we talked about it during the week, we realized that neither of us had enjoyed the experience at King’s Mountain very much.  So I spent one evening researching United Methodist Churches in …

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