From National Parks

Millipedes, Apheloria Tigana and Virginiensis

Every morning when I take my walk, I come across one or two yellow and black flat-backed millipedes.  I don’t remember ever encountering these arthropods before but I have enjoyed watching them wander across the road.  Just in case you aren’t up on your nomenclature, arthropods possess an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. In order to …

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Camp Nelson National Monument

In our continuing quest to visit all the National Park sites, Tom and I made a trip to visit Camp Nelson National Monument.  Camp Nelson is located in Nicholasville, Kentucky, southwest of Lexington.  It took us a couple of hours to drive up to it.  The site is one of the newest in the National …

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Campground Update

Tom and I moved from our full hook-up site on June 28 to an electric only site.  I thought I would give you a campground update on how I feel about living at the Wilderness Road Campground. As I mentioned before, Tom and I usually get a full hook-up site when we work in the …

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Main Duty at Cumberland Gap NHP

While we are at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, my main duty is living history.  When we first got here, the rangers all seemed to assume that Tom and I would spend every day doing living history.  Living history is fine and Tom has several talks that he can give.  But my living history program …

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Fitness Trail at Cumberland Gap

Next to the Visitors Center at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a Fitness Trail.  The trail is two miles long and meanders through the area behind the Visitors Center, through Bartlett Park, and around the parking lot. The second day Tom and I reported for work here at Cumberland Gap, we walked the Fitness …

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Mice Ate My Handwoven Towels!

Mice ate my handwoven towels!  I had three towels left from my last batch.  The others had all been gifted to the wonderful rangers we work with here at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.  Ranger Layton, the Volunteer Coordinator, was the only one who hadn’t gotten a towel yet.  On the one day we worked …

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Skylight Cave at Cumberland Gap NHP

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park has over 85 miles of trails.  Skylight Cave is a popular destination along those trails.  After the Wilderness Road Trail, it is the most hiked trail in the park.  But only a small number of people hike anything except the Wilderness Road Trail. A lot of people who come to …

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