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What A Time

FAMILY OUTINGS

The falls doesn’t drop in one long stream from the top to the
bottom like the Yellowstone Falls. The water tumbles
dropping 20- 25 feet, swirling around in a pool, and falling
another 20 feet in a white foaming bath onto more jagged
rocks.

The Virginia path drops further and is more rugged than the
Maryland. The Maryland path drops once, and then with all its
power runs across some large boulders looking like a
monstrous rapid.
I was always anxious and careful around the falls, and the
jagged sharp rocks. Many people have fallen and drown in the
raging waters. Years later, in my teens I would test this river
from above and below the falls but never over them

Of all the homesteads, or plantations, George Washington’s
Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello were my
favorite.
I liked the ride along the Potomac to get to Mt. Vernon. It
was a secluded park highway that made one think of the slow
easy going American South. It’s dual highway lazily curves
winds along the river with trees and picnic areas along the
way. By the time we reached Mt. Vernon the dream of our
founding fathers plantation above the Potomac was a reality.
It’s southern columns stand as a monument to a past world
with a grassy field of green stretching miles along the river. It
was important for me as an image of our world.

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