Both lies blue. But you know that.Quote:
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Both lies blue. But you know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
Nice delete you did there. Lying by omission now? If you arent quoted you can just pretend you never typed it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
I did and still do want to see the rest of the pics from your trip and I do agree the National Park System is good gov spending, I said so in the thread you deleted. I admitted I was wrong about who started the NPA in a subsequent thread.
I was asked a question about firearms and I answered it and I stand by my statement about firearms training.
Do your self a favor and just delete this thread or post where I said everyone should on a firearm. I can take it if I typed it.
Not again!!! Okay...I'll ask Karen if she can bring up the thread you started about everyone should have a gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
Deja vous all over again. Like the time you insisted I said Truman was responsible for the national parks.
But let's let her sleep right now.
Find it yourself, I didnt delete the thread. I still think that even you should have firearm safety training.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
I admitted I was wrong on that didnt I? I still would like to see the rest of the pics from that trip.Quote:
Deja vous all over again. Like the time you insisted I said Truman was responsible for the national parks.
ETA: Here is the thread ES is talking about, Link.
Probably a bad title for the thread but the idea is still sound.
Maybe Im wrong but I thought that the National Park System started over a hundred years ago with Theodore Roosevelt who was quite an outdoorsman and conversavationist , especially for those times.
In fact the Teddy Bear was named after a Bear Cub that he spared during a hunting trip.
I wish we could get along together as well as Our Cats and dogs do.:love:
Well, not quite.Quote:
Originally Posted by catmandu
Teddy came along a little bit AFTER the National Parks were first created.
See this write-up from the National Park Service web site >>>
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/h...iefhistory.htm
"The national park concept is generally credited to the artist George Catlin.
On a trip to the Dakotas in 1832, he worried about the impact of America's westward expansion
on Indian civilization, wildlife, and wilderness. They might be preserved, he wrote,
'By some great protecting policy of government... in a magnificent park....
A nation's park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty.'
Catlin's vision was partly realized in 1864, when Congress donated Yosemite Valley to California
for preservation as a state park. Eight years later, in 1872, Congress reserved the spectacular
Yellowstone country in the Wyoming and Montana territories
'as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.'
With no state government there yet to receive and manage it, Yellowstone remained
in the custody of the U.S. Department of the Interior as a national park ÷
the world's first area so designated."
So ... George did it! ;)
by Phred
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Originally Posted by catmandu
There really was no need to bump this thread or to bring up the NPS topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
Dogs and cats may not always get along but they can learn to respect each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by catmandu
:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
YOU were the one who posted the [ QUOTE ] mentioning the NPS ...
granted it was 2 MONTHS ago ... we''re justa lil *slow* on the pick-up.
;)
I have a Senior Lifetime Pass. Cost me $10, and I can visit any of the National Parks. Wish I could say we'd seen more of them. Pictured Rocks in the Upper Peninsula is gorgeous, and Petersburg National Battlefield and Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia are both small but very interesting. There are two in my home state of Rhode Island - Tuoro Synagogue in Newport, and Roger Williams in Providence.
Many Ohioans don't know about the Beautiful National Park we have right
here in North/Central Ohio - The Cuyahoga Valley National Park >>>
http://www.nps.gov/cuva/index.htm
OTHER Ohio Parks >>>
http://www.nps.gov/state/OH/index.htm
Not from Ohio? - Find your closest National Park here >>>
http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
When did Roger Williams become a National Park??Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
That was the place Dad had to take us for the Sunday afternoon drive just to get out of the house, where we went to the fireworks on July 4th, and where Dad absolutely had to take us as little kids to take pics of us when the flowers were in bloom. Remember the big flower bed that was planted to look like the American Flag? That takes me WAY back!
It's not the Roger Williams Park you're thinking of. Not the one with the carousel and the zoo. This is Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main St in Providence. Here it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
I never knew there was more than one. What I remember is all the beautiful gardens, a pond with ducks and swans - don't really remember a carousel tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I remember it. It was where I got brave enough to first ride the up-and-down horses :) Then later I even took a chance on catching the gold ring. There is a carousel there now, but I don't think it is the original one. When I was out for my high school reunion, we visited the Park, rode the carousel and checked out the zoo.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
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Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
Thanks for the links Phred. I learned a lot about Ohio CI today. Very
interesting topic.:)