I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
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New Germany, New Switzerland, …
I wrote about going camping over Memorial Day weekend at New Germany State Park in Maryland. The area was settled by Germans moving south from a trail that ran through Pennsylvania and Maryland. That trail was later used by General Braddock in the French and Indian War (the Seven Years War?) and then probably by [...]
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