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(131,107 posts)Looks like I should visit.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)I don't think it is too awfully far from you.
I took this from the deck of an Airbnb which I can heartily recommend.
elleng
(131,107 posts)and it's only about 60 miles from my DC suburban friend's home, 125 from my southern MD home.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Despite the number of trips I've made to the East Coast the lushness never ceases to impress me.
We stayed there while on a trip to Antietam. Lots of history in that town, site of John Brown's raid, etc..
I recommend the trip!
elleng
(131,107 posts)Lived near Antietam for a few years, and yes, it's very lush around here (and there.)
k8conant
(3,030 posts)I live 10 miles from there on the Blue Ridge and my mailing address is Harpers Ferry.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Stayed in a great Airbnb there, run by a couple who foster rescues.
I am always amazed at how incredibly beautiful it is around there. We were there at the end of July, 2018, and it was green and lovely (unlike my part of California at that time of year).
k8conant
(3,030 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)One of my favorite memories as a kid was my mom taking me there. She was a history teacher and civil war expert. I remember her telling me about John Brown as we walked around .
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)She instilled me with a love of History in general from a young age. Had me reading Bruce Catton's writings when I was a young kid. I went on to earn both BA and MA in History, largely because of her influence.
John Brown; Herman Melville referred to him as The Meteor of the War.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)I too marvel at how green everything is back East! So unlike our California.
And look at all the water in the river!
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Yeah, we're usually on fire that time of year.
We flew back for a long weekend at the end of July, last year. The weather had been extra wet that summer (lots of water for the rivers) and had been raining pretty continuously for days until the evening that we arrived at Dulles. The next three days were beautiful; sunny, warm, humidity wasn't horrible. The night we flew out it started raining again.
Perfect timing.
Callalily
(14,894 posts)I wouldn't mind visiting.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)...but its certainly worth the trip, especially if youre into the history of the US.
packman
(16,296 posts)Santa Fa Trail 1940
tclambert
(11,087 posts)You know, the bone spurs he can't remember. So he would have had to stay home fighting his own war against STDs.
(Added: I just looked up the cast. Reagan played George Armstrong Custer! Errol Flynn played JEB Stuart. Raymond Massey played John Brown.)
3Hotdogs
(12,406 posts)I got to a street and there was a sign on the street about not following G.P.S. directions. The sign is correct.
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)We stopped at Harper's Ferry when we were on a driving trip to see Civil War battlefields from Gettysburg on south when I was pregnant with our oldest. 1986. Ended up in Atlanta. We started out (from L.A.) intending to fly to Austria and then see Italy. It was right after Reagan bombed Tripoli and there were all kinds of protests going on in Europe. I had very bad feelings about the trip (not speaking German or Italian) and not wanting to be identified as Americans. There had been a woman--pregnant--whose boyfriend had put her on a plane at Heathrow and planted a bomb in her carry on. I told my husband, that's it, I'm not going so we got off the plane at JFK and didn't take the connecting flight to Europe. Came up with the Civil War battlefield trip instead so we'd still end up in Atlanta for a reunion with his family as originally planned.
Fascinating history.
Turned out my intuition served me well. We later found out that we would have been in Vienna when Chernobyl blew and due to winds I would have gotten a huge dose of radiation (5 months pregnant) and been worrying for the rest of my pregnancy.