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Washington Crossing State Park, Pennsylvania USA

From the Park's Website
Begun in September of 1929, Bowman's Hill Tower was completed in June of 1931 as a commemorative monument to George Washington and his army.

Bowman's Hill Tower stands approximately 380 feet above sea level.

The Tower itself is 125 feet tall and the base measures 24 square feet.

On a clear day, the view from Bowman's Hill Tower encompasses a minimum 14 mile radius of the Delaware River Valley.

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I'm trying to capture the feeling of what I saw in the fog and snowfall

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Greetings Flickrinos

Borrowed my Dad's Elph and was screwing around with the settings. I forget which setting this is.

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One day they would make a park there, with neat lawns and smooth black roadways, and there would be marble statues and bronze plaques to tell the story in bloodless prose. Silent cannon would rest behind grassy embankments, their wheels bolted down to concrete foundations, their malevolence wholly gone, and here and there birds would nest in the muzzles. In the museums and tourist-bait trinket shops old bullets and broken buckles and twisted bayonets would repose under glass, with a rusty musket or so on the wall and little illustrated booklets lying on top of the counter...The town and the woods and the ridges and hills would become a national shrine, filled with romantic memories which are in themselves a kind of forgetting, and visitors would stand by the clump of trees and look off to the west and see nothing but the rolling fields and the quiet groves and the great blue bank of the mountains.
Bruce Catton, "Glory Road"

November 20, 2010
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg USA

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