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Ray Fort

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Senior Spelling Bee 2005

Job in Denver

Western Diary VII

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Denny Storer

Western Diary IX

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Trip Pictures

Renovare Bible I

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To the Flag

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Black Trials

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Ten Commandments

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The Bead of Sweat

Ross Runkel

Hans Linde

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A Dream

Fools and Jerks

Heeding the Call

What If?? I

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Two Guys In A Store

John H. Johnson

Another Dream

Albert Raboteau

Empty Nest I

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Billy Graham/New Yorker

College 2005

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Redeemer Presbyterian Ch.

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Social Security Debate I

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Am Mus. Natural History I

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Spinning Katrina

Thomas Frank's Kansas

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Parker Palmer

A Few Pictures of the Trip

Bill Long 6/29/05

This is my first experiment with some photos. Tell me what you think.

	I left for my trip on June 15. On June 10 my son Will graduated from South Salem High School with loads of honors, including the school mathematics award. He looks forward to attending private higher education in New York State in the Fall, to major in economics or political science. Will is a delightful young man, smart, funny, and independent in his thinking.
	I came across this grave of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Toussaint and Sacajawea, in the arid Oregon desert outside of Jordan Valley. You don't often see the Lewis and Clark roadside sign in the Oregon desert, so I had to turn down the dirt road to find out what it was.
	This is the explanatory description of Jean-Baptiste. After the L&C expedition (he was born in Mandan in 1805), he was brought up by Clark, sent to Europe in the 1820s to learn several languages, and returned to be a multilingual Mountain Man and, for a time, mayor of a CA town. He died here on the way to MT for gold.
	This is the only picture I know showing paleontologist humor (from the Dinosaur National Monument). The tail of the Stegosaurus is called "Thagomiser." The word occurs only in one place in English--a "Far Side" cartoon, where a hapless fellow, Thag Simmons, was killed by a swing of this tail--making him, I suppose, "Thagomisered." Hence, the name.
	This, friends, is Kansas. Yep. Kansas. It is called the Monument Rocks, and is located about 7 miles off the highway halfway between (drum roll) Scott City and Oakley. It is in the Smoky River Valley, where the ancient river (no more than a trickle in summer now) carves out a stunning valley.
	This is another shot of Monument Rocks. There are two "stands" of these impressive rocks, about 30' high, that I will call the "Kansas Stonehenge." I met no cars in my seven mile drive to and from the Rocks, nor did I see another soul there admiring them. I was in another world.