And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere but where I do - on a hill in West Virginia. The wind might blow me off the ridge someday, but IF YOU CHOOSE your home-place wisely, there are no floods or landslides.
Wonder if it dammed up the stream at the base? If so a decent amount of water could pile up - until the dam breaks. And then things would really get interesting.
Forest Falls was aptly named.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to live anywhere but where I do - on a hill in West Virginia. The wind might blow me off the ridge someday, but IF YOU CHOOSE your home-place wisely, there are no floods or landslides.
ReplyDeleteThe angle of repose...
ReplyDelete...hardly the "whole mountain".
ReplyDeleteWonder if it dammed up the stream at the base? If so a decent amount of water could pile up - until the dam breaks. And then things would really get interesting.
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