Part of the reason I am hopelessly behind in blogging about our lives is that we were on vacation for a week, arriving back home yesterday.
Last Saturday we loaded up the car and headed north, in pursuit of some cooler weather and good times in Michigan. Along the way we visited the site of Fort Jefferson, south of Greenville. This was one of a line of forts established in the late 1700s to protect the frontier from Indians, which is a little ironic since General St. Clair lost something like 600 men while on a sortie out from this very fort, a record for casualties inflicted by Native Americans in a battle. Nothing remains of the fort, but there are signs describing what archaeological digs on the site have found. And they have a cool stone monument there, so of course we posed in front of it.
We had a few other first-day adventures, including a visit to the Kitchen Aid Blender museum, but the real highlight was the McAlpine Corvair/GTO Museum in Jackson, whose curator is none other than my brother Brian. He is always gracious and let us tour the place yet again.
3 comments:
sounds like you had a perfect vacation !! how is annie doing by now?
sorry - that was me above.
karyn
Karyn, sorry I did not see your question earlier. Annie is doing fine. She is getting pretty involved with activities at Roanoke, and getting good grades too. We just saw her this past week, as she was home for her fall break.
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