Category Archives: Weekly View

View 224: Vietnam Veterans Memorial

In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, I watched the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite after supper.  Cronkite would introduce stories and maps of this area half way around the world called Southeast Asia where the Vietnam War was … Continue reading

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View 223: Manned Spaceflight

Visited the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport which is the companion facility to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum on the National Mall.  It houses one of the largest collections of historic air and space craft … Continue reading

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View 222: Field Trip to a Soda Pop Plant

C’mon boys and girls, it is time to collect  your permission slips, hop on the bus and take a class field trip.  Today, we are going to visit a soda pop plant which makes among other flavors, Pepsi Cola. Put … Continue reading

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View 221: Syracuse St. Patrick’s Day Parade

For thirty years, the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Day Parade has had to put up with snow, sleet, cold, rain and wind.  Never has it had the day it had this year. Blue skies and temperatures in the low 70’s F … Continue reading

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View 220: Little Taughannock Falls

I have shown you plenty of photos of Taughannock Falls over the last year.  At 215 feet (65.5m), it is one of the tallest waterfalls east of the Mississippi River.  The gorge the falls created over centuries contains the creek … Continue reading

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