Just awesome to be able to see in person despite the Nor Easter’s rain impacting the region. Peak should be later this week! 🍁🍂 📸 Keene, NY (9/27)

“It’s going to be pretty windy this weekend. Do you want to double check the anchor?” “It’ll be fine.”

Imagine being the generation that lost the art of reading. Resist!

Vigilantism is more appealing every day.

Our ancestors were grateful for a little light when they had to work overtime. Count your blessings!

autumn in old cartoons

Add a little mystery!

A 2-year-old boy was kidnapped from his home and driven nearly 200 miles away. Then one trucker spotted the getaway car, and within minutes, three massive semis were closing in around it. Jim Lowe had heard the AMBER Alert when he recognized the car on Interstate 24. He checked the license plate, realized it matched and immediately radioed other truckers ahead. The truckers spread across the highway and moved their semis into position around the car. They boxed it in and began slowing it down, making sure the driver couldn’t get away before police arrived. Officers rushed in, arrested the driver and found 2-year-old Cael Whitehead inside safe and unharmed. Those truckers had never met Cael, but when they realized that little boy was inside the car beside them, they did everything they could to make sure he got home safely.

"...& what did you do during the Lockdowns? she asked"

You may say you’re dedicated to your business, but have you waterboarded yourself with coffee while skateboarding in a Jack-o-lantern for it?

As we head into autumn, you should know that if you use plastic pumpkins, I am judging you.

Good life advice: “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” -Henry David Thoreau Daniel F. Gerhartz, ARC Living Master

Talk about a win-win. These high school students in Virginia learn to repair old cars and then donate them free of charge to single mothers who need reliable transportation.

Something completely lost to most Americans is just how much Virginia drove the War for Independence. Boston gets all the attention because that’s where it turned into a full blown war. The way people think of the War for Independence is that all this stuff happened in Massachusetts then suddenly all the other colonies showed up. Every colony had its own story, had its own particular efforts and reasons for joining in the war, but the actual political leadership was Virginian. Virginians led in all coordinated political measures. Further, a Virginian proposed independence, Richard Henry Lee. A Virginian wrote the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson. And a Virginian led the Continental army, George Washington. Virginia was where the first colony took root, and it was also where America itself was born.

The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow is one of the most famous in American literature, its churchyard being the inspiration for Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

A musket ball caught Daniel Morgan in the back of the neck. It tore up through his mouth, knocked out the teeth on his left side, and came out through his cheek. He was fighting in the French and Indian War, years before the Revolution. Morgan was carrying dispatches across the Virginia frontier with two other men when they rode into an ambush. Both of the others were killed on the spot. Morgan took the ball to the neck but managed to stay in the saddle. He leaned forward, wrapped his arms around the horse's neck and let it run. One of the attackers chased him on foot, expecting the wounded man to drop at any second. But he never did. Morgan rode all the way to the safety of the fort. He lost those teeth, but he survived. And a couple of decades later, that same man would command the force that shattered a British army at Cowpens. American Grit.

Ngl, I'm feeling cowardly of late. It has been grim around here.

How intelligent and well educated do you have to be to try to cheat your cleaning lady? cc:@xenocosmography

“Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors.” — Sam Francis

“And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good.”