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.
My aunt was born there in 1914. Her dad was a miner and her mom (my grandma) was an immigrant from Lancashire, UK. They were previously living on the Iron Range in Michigan and moved to Georgetown just before my aunt was born. Her dad died in a mining accident shortly afterwards, IIRC, and grandma met and married my grandpa, another hard rock miner, carpenter, and one-time shipwright. Life was hard for them chasing good mining jobs wherever the latest strike was made.
Georgetown is a neat little historical place. Behind the camera is the Georgetown Loop Railway with a 90 ft high trestle. First built in the 1800s to haul silver from Silver Plume. Thomas Edison made a very early b&w movie film of it.
I am sure that you mean "contrails" from cross country passenger jets heading east and west. And contrails, for the uneducated, are simply jet engine water exhaust the freezes at 6 miles (30,000 feet) altitude.
Jet and prop engines both cause fundamentally the same phenomenon: condensation trails formed when hot, moist exhaust meets cold, dry air, causing water vapor to freeze into ice crystals.
I thought it looked like Colorado and I was right, but I also thought it might be Cripple Creek, but it is a different mining town…
ReplyDeleteLooks like Georgetown, CO. I-70 on the left side of the photo.
ReplyDeleteA visual search indicates that it's Georgetown, Colorado.
ReplyDeleteMy aunt was born there in 1914. Her dad was a miner and her mom (my grandma) was an immigrant from Lancashire, UK. They were previously living on the Iron Range in Michigan and moved to Georgetown just before my aunt was born. Her dad died in a mining accident shortly afterwards, IIRC, and grandma met and married my grandpa, another hard rock miner, carpenter, and one-time shipwright. Life was hard for them chasing good mining jobs wherever the latest strike was made.
DeleteGalt’s Gulch?
ReplyDeleteWho is John Galt?
DeleteA: Fictional hero of an amoral atheist author who found out the truth on March 6, 1982, unfortunately too late.
Georgetown is a neat little historical place. Behind the camera is the Georgetown Loop Railway with a 90 ft high trestle. First built in the 1800s to haul silver from Silver Plume. Thomas Edison made a very early b&w movie film of it.
ReplyDeleteStunning scenery to look at every day.
ReplyDeleteSilverton Colorado
ReplyDeleteNot a chemtrail in sight.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that you mean "contrails" from cross country passenger jets heading east and west. And contrails, for the uneducated, are simply jet engine water exhaust the freezes at 6 miles (30,000 feet) altitude.
DeleteBet he means "chemtrail".
DeleteAnd the contrails for cloud seeding are another for the educated.
DeleteAre those the same jet engines used on the B-17 and B-24?
ReplyDeleteJet and prop engines both cause fundamentally the same phenomenon: condensation trails formed when hot, moist exhaust meets cold, dry air, causing water vapor to freeze into ice crystals.
ReplyDeleteFor sure not Silverton, CO. Most likely Georgetown, CO..
ReplyDeleteThought it was Telluride, CO
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