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Join us for this tour from July 6 to July 26, 2021! Book Details: Book Title: Road to the Breaking Category: Adult Fiction (18 +) , 345 pages Genre: Historical …
Motorcycle touring in New Zealand will immerse you in some of the most achingly beautiful landscapes the world has to offer. You’ll touch pristine glaciers, summit mountain passes, cruise along white sandy beaches, and see lakes so blue you’ll think they’ve been Photoshopped. As if this wasn’t enough, the locals have built a network of silky-smooth roads over the years that curve, twist, climb and fall through this magical landscape. And with a population of just 4,796,000 people spread over […]
Indiana has a potential Route 66. Most Hoosiers don't realize it, let alone outsiders. But it's already there. The dots just need connected.
A path through a wooded landscape, 1885, Newton Bennett. English (1854 - 1914)
The Devil's Tramping Ground is a camping spot located in a forest near the Harper's Crossroads area near Bennett, North Carolina. It has been the subject of persistent local legends and lore, which frequently allege that the Devil "tramps" and haunts a barren circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow. Stories about the ring are well known in local communities. These include the disappearance of objects left within the ring overnight, dogs yipping and howling not wanting to go near it, and strange events occurring to those brave enough to spend the night within its boundaries. It has been alleged that nothing has grown within the 40 foot ring for a hundred years. Legend says that this is the very place the devil himself can rise from the depths of fiery hell, and come to earth. It's at this place that the devil is supposed to walk in circles on certain nights and bring his evil into this world.
“The scenery from Bennetts Bluff is the classic view from the road to #Glenorchy #NewZealand”
Why doesn't Michigan have enough money to maintain its roads and bridges?
Join us for this tour from July 6 to July 26, 2021! Book Details: Book Title: Road to the Breaking Category: Adult Fiction (18 +) , 345 pages Genre: Historical …
Some months ago I blogged about the Halcyon Hall, as derelict Bennett College here in Millbrook, NY, once was called. It is a fantastical structure built at ruinous expense by a local hilltopper named Harry Davison. The hotel opened in the early 1890s, was bankrupt by 1903, and sold in 1907 to May Bennett, founder of the college. Through a combination of bad luck and bad planning - in particular, the construction of a heavily financed new science building - the college went bankrupt in 1978. The next thirty-three years have put no one in a particularly good light. Two early prospective buyers - CBS which considered the possibility of a production center, and the Job Corp which proposed a training facility for minority kids - were discouraged either by the town board or the college trustees, or both. A dizzying string of owners and a complex series of subdivisions ensued during decades characterized more by foreclosure proceedings than anything else. The ugliest buildings on the campus - namely, a series of 4-story, flat-roofed, bunker-like, cinder block dormitories - were converted into condominiums and sold. The one really valuable building, the old Halcyon Hall itself, was allowed to rot pending the miraculous birth of one or another ill-conceived conversion plans. By 2011, the place had come to this. Halcyon Hall has been leaking like the proverbial sieve for over a decade, but somehow it basically held together. Last week it began to collapse. Admittedly, the place was looking pretty wobbly before it began to fall in, but this signals the real beginning of the end. Demolition would cost millions, a tab the village can't afford and one the present owner is disinclined to spend without approval for the latest development scheme. The real casualty in all of this is the village of Millbrook, which is about to lose a much loved landmark.
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15 fotografie di architettura dimenticata scattate da J Bennett Fitts in giro per gli Stati Uniti
