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  • Oom Gert’s story
    “Oom Gert vertel” is C. Louis Leipoldt’s narrative poem about an old man who explains to a young visitor what happened in his small town during the Boer War, 1899-1902.  As part of the British Cape Colony, the town was subjected to martial law so that its residents would not rebel against the British crown [...]
  • Yellow Mountain
    There were a couple of reasons why I decided to conquer the 5127′ summit of Yellow Mountain in the Nantahala National Forest.  First of all, it would make a good moderate leg-stretcher at approximately 10 miles, 3000 vertical (up and back).  Secondly, it would take me fairly close to the area that I wrote about [...]
  • Escape of the locomotive raiders (Part 2)
    This is a continuation of my post about the Andrews raiders, who hijacked a locomotive in April 1862 with the intent of disrupting Confederate movements of supplies and troops.  They were all captured; eight were hanged; another eight escaped from prison in Atlanta (in four pairs) and made remarkable journeys to freedom.  Photographs of the [...]