WASHINGTON, D.C. – If you’ve been sitting around the house waiting on spring and thinking about getting outdoors to camp and hike or just sit by the fire under the trees and listen to the birds sing, this is a good week to do it. It’s National Park Week, and camping is “fee free” from…
Images from Skyline Drive in Virginia – Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. — It is the last weekend of the season at Mathew’s Arm, the northern most campground in the national forest. We scouted it out on Thursday, secured a campsite and toured the first 22 miles of Skyline Drive, stopping…
By Bob Wells – I always try to break up my posts and have some variety so today I’m going to post photos from last July when I was in the Grand Tetons National Park. For a long time the Grand Tetons have been on my Bucket List of places to intensively photograph but the…
By Glynn Wilson – Reading the national press coverage on the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, even listening to the reporting on National Public Radio, you would think the biggest problem the parks face is a lack of visitors. The entire story is framed as if the parks were just another capitalist tourist…
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” – Genesis 2:7 Fetuses and frozen embryos don’t breath air. Under the Microscope – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You can’t fix stupid. There…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you find yourself in the Washington region and happen to be traveling down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to see all the monuments and museums in the nation’s capital city, you might notice an exit sign for Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens. If you have the…
Lone Offenders and Small Groups Continue to Pose a Persistent Threat – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Be on the lookout for violent threats from domestic and foreign terrorists, according to a new National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin issued Wednesday. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s about time to hit the MoJo Road one more time in this amazing life journey chasing bliss and enlightenment in nature near the heart of political power in America. MoJo in this case refers to Mobile Journalism, as well as the Luck and…
O wondrous youth Through this grand ruth Runs my boy’s life, its thread The General’s fame, the battle’s name The rolls of maimed and dead I bear with my thrilled soul astir And lonely thoughts and fears And am but history’s courier To bind the conquering years A battle’s ray, through ages gray To light…
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” – Benjamin Franklin The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – I must not be finished, because I feel a change coming on, a change in the way I feel about America’s national holidays. For most of my adult life, I tended to feel…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Where else in America can you see in person a painting by Leonardo da Vinci? No where. Ginevra de’ Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de’ Benci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in…
Live Video – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the White House for the first time on Thursday night on the one year anniversary of the national emergency declaration over the coronavirus pandemic, and broke the news that his administration will beat previous announced deadlines for getting Americans vaccinated and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It won’t be so long now. The excruciating wait will be over in a few days. Exacerbated by the stress, anxiety and existential dread of the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty, it will all be over soon one way or another. We should know…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Back in the late 20th century, when the written word and truth still seemed to matter, I was hanging out in the Great Smoky Mountains and came up with a cool title for a travel-nature column for The Southerner magazine, something I still use from time to time…
On the Road Again – By Glynn Wilson – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Everyone thought the Republican National Convention had moved from here to Jacksonville, Florida and was then canceled and moved to Washington, D.C., so no one was quite prepared for what happened Monday. We got word over the weekend that some Republican delegates were…
By Glynn Wilson – America will be celebrating independence in a few weeks on July 4 and holding an election in a few months on Nov. 3, so this seems like a good time to assess where we are psychologically after three and a half months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the Independence Day celebration in the nation’s capital and around the country on the Fourth of July, patriotic American pride and national morale are showing record lows, according to public opinion research, largely based on the disgraceful performance of the occupant of the White…
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
By Glynn Wilson – GROVE OAK, Ala. — Jamie Godwin began telling me her story at a party by a campfire on a bluff looking out over Shoal Creek in St. Florian, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. She is inspired in part by the story of a native American medicine woman named Teh-la-nay, who once walked…
Members of the National Park Service Advisory Board Resign in Protest – By Glynn Wilson – Due to a lack of leadership from President Donald Trump and the compromised members of his cabinet, the government of the United States is in a full-scale national crisis. If a compromise is not reached by Friday, which seems…
