Just put the first part of the story of my recent trip to the Boy Scout Jamboree on my blog.
Part 1 details the Kentucky portion of the trip with references to things of interest to surveyors.
Check it out if you are interested.
"We next made our way to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, National Historic Park. Unfortunately, the Memorial Building was closed due to renovations."
You probably felt the same way I did when I pulled up to the entrance to the Four Corners Monument on my way to the ACSM Conference in Phoenix last April and found it closed for renovations. Grrrrr.
Here’s a couple of photos I took at the Lincoln Birthplace on the way home from the Rendezvous last fall. There's not much clearance inside that memorial building and I didn't have a wide angle lens along.
You didn't miss much. The cabin that's in there doesn't have anything to do with Lincoln. It was originally a two-story structure from a local farm that some P. T. Barnum wanna-be whittled down to one story and toured around the country with "the house Lincoln was born in."
> You probably felt the same way I did when I pulled up to the entrance to the Four Corners Monument on my way to the ACSM Conference in Phoenix last April and found it closed for renovations. Grrrrr.
Hmmm. Was that after all the reports about it being in the "wrong" spot? Maybe they were secretly trying to move it a little closer to where it was supposed to be. 😉
There’s an interesting article about the Four Corners monument on Page 7 of the August issue of the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado newsletter Side Shots.
Also see NSPS Governor Warren Ward’s report on Page 18.
Four Corners Article
> There’s an interesting article about the Four Corners monument on Page 7 of the August issue of the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado newsletter Side Shots.
Good article. If Earl's lurking - Good Job!
Thanks for posting.