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Writing the Backwash with R. H. Sheldon
Travel & Outdoors
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
I visited Gettysburg when I was a young boy. Or so I’m told. I recall nothing about the trip. My guess is that I was more interested in looking down the mouths of cannons than in understanding why those cannons were there. So being at Gettysburg now is, in fact, like visiting for the first [...]
Tags: American flag, Christianity, Christians, Civil War, Civil War casualties, Confederate soldiers, Gettysburg, Gettysburg battle, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee, Tea Baggers, Tea Party, Union soldiers
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The Great Outdoors
Several of us sit around the fire pit, at a campground in northern Ohio. A 28-foot RV towers nearby. It belongs to the two men from Canada, the ones who built the fire. They pop open a bottle of Cabernet and pour the wine into large Bordeaux glasses. They discuss the campgrounds they’ve traveled to, those [...]
Tags: camping, gay camping, Illinois, Illinois State Beach Park, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio
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American Heartland
First I google it. Then I map it. Then I drive there and sit in the parking lot. I’m south of downtown Minneapolis, just past the airport. My last stop before I head into Wisconsin. The building looms large before me, several stories high, its bulk measured not in feet, but in football fields or [...]
Tags: Badlands, Bemidji, Colorado, Devils Tower, Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Nickelodeon Universe, South Dakota
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