It is the third Monday in January, a date set aside to honor one of the greatest civil rights activists…
Tag: National Historical Park
Harriet Tubman – Veteran of the Underground Railroad
Last week we talked about how the movie “Current Wars” made us think about Thomas Edison National Historical Park in…
Thomas Edison: Inventor and Innovator
We just saw The Current War – a movie about Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. It was interesting because we…
Happy Anniversary Harpers Ferry NHP
August 2019 marks the 103rd anniversary of the National Park Service so we looked to see if there were any…
Palo Alto Battlefield: The War Begins
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park, in what is now Brownsville Texas, was the site of the first clash in…
Golden Spike National Historical Park celebrates 150 years
It was 150 years ago, in the year 1869, that the transcontinental railway became a reality. Two rail lines met…
Winter 1777-78 at Valley Forge
As the country lies in the throes of winter, our thoughts turned to the winter of 1777-78 and the third…
Voting Day and Women’s Rights National Historical Park
With the US mid-term elections upon us, it made us think about how recently it was that women got the…
Labor Day at Lowell National Historical Park
When you think of national park units, you don’t often think of a factory. But that is what Lowell National…
Happy Father’s Day from Adams NHP
#HappyFathersDay There is one National Park Unit that commemorates both a father and a son. That is Adams National Historical…