Comments on: Pleasant surprises in the national parks https://rscottjones.com/pleasant-surprises-in-the-national-parks/ tagline-free since 1998 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site — R Scott Jones https://rscottjones.com/pleasant-surprises-in-the-national-parks/#comment-205 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:18:16 +0000 https://rscottjones.com/?p=717#comment-205 […] of our quest. I commented last month that one of the benefits of our quest was that it brought us to see some really cool places that we otherwise wouldn’t […]

]]> By: Frances Hunter https://rscottjones.com/pleasant-surprises-in-the-national-parks/#comment-204 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:37:41 +0000 https://rscottjones.com/?p=717#comment-204 Great post! I am looking forward to getting to Vicksburg one of these days.

I enjoyed your comments about the magnificent George Rogers Clark memorial in Vincennes. One of the major battles of the American Revolution was fought here. While the monument is spectacular, you can get almost no sense of what actually happened here, leading to the “whaa?” reaction that you mention.

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