One might need to take a quiet wagon ride to pick out their pumpkins in order to have them in time for Halloween.
Pumpkin Wagon
Picture of the Day for August 13, 2016
Modes of transportation has changed over the centuries, although horse drawn wagons have had a long history of use as horses were domesticated around 4000 BC and the wheel invented in 3500 BC. This wagon hasn’t been that long but it has seen a fair number of years and probably hauled a variety of loads.
Old Wagon
Picture of the Day for December 1, 2015
The start of December means that winter is just really starting and there will be more snow and cold coming for many months yet. I don’t think this wagon will be big enough to haul winter farther north. And for the earlier generations, this mode of transportation wasn’t closed in or have a heater to kept a person warm, so I guess I can’t complain about winter but I still might anyway!
Heavy Wagon
Picture of the Day for June 23, 2015
I had to pick up a lot of limbs from the wind and rain yesterday morning, so I was glad to have a sturdier structure to be inside than a covered wagon during a storm. The pioneers were a brave bunch of people to travel west all those miles in just a covered wagon, carrying all their belongings and food to make a start a new life.
Covered Wagon
Picture of the Day for June 14, 2015
The earliest reference to the suggestion of a “Flag Day” was by Victor Morris of Connecticut, where the city of Hartford observed that day in 1861 but it did not become a tradition.
Bernard J. Cigrand generally is credited with being the “Father of Flag Day,” with the Chicago Tribune noting that he “almost singlehandedly” established the holiday. A grade school teacher in Waubeka, in eastern Wisconsin, Cigrand held the first recognized formal observance of Flag Day at the Stony Hill School in 1885. From the late 1880s on, Cigrand spoke on the need for the annual observance of a flag day on June 14, the day in 1777 that the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes.
In 1916, inspired by Cigrand’s actions, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 to be Flag Day, but the day was not officially established by an Act of Congress until 1949.
Flag Day
