Memorial monument - Mount Greylock

mneedham

mneedham

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We've done a lot of hiking this weekend and I wanted to take the kids somewhere to talk about Memorial Day. We went to Mount Greylock in the Berkshires, some of the best views in NE of the U.S. in my opinion.. Anybody who has done the AT is familiar with it, the AT crosses the summit of Greylock at about 3500 feet elevation. Is was misty when we got there, but it started burning off after about an hour. The tower is a memorial and so we got to talk about sacrifice of soldiers around the world, and messed around on the AT for a little while.. We had lunch at Thunderbolt Shelter, I felt a little guilty about eating the amazing picnic lunch my wife brought in the midst of AT hikers eating gorp and trail food, but I got over it...

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Especially appropriate timing, beautiful pictures, even the fog fits the occasion.
Even the kids look serious! :)





Don't feel guilty. You're not the one who told those hikers they had to eat that gunk. :eek:
 
Punisher - Thanks - I think the kids were still a dizzy from the spiral staircase:D

Esav - I've eaten my share of that gunk too.....
 
i was born&raised in north adams ma.at the foot of this great place. allways loved hiking up it and camping there.
 
dulledge2 said:
i was born&raised in north adams ma.at the foot of this great place. allways loved hiking up it and camping there.
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It sure is a great place.. I plan on being back there camping directly in the next couple weeks.
 
Beautiful shots mneedham, looks like a perfect and fitting day.
 
My grandpa was in the CCC and helped build the monument. When I was a child he took my brother and me to see it and showed what he built on it; I was so proud. My grandpa went on to serve in the Navy during WW2.
My summer job in college was working for the Mass. DEM where I once had the privilege of cleaning up around the monument.

Thanks for posting and bring back good memories.
 
BarberFobic1992 said:
I guess they forgot to bring the U stamp so they used a V instead.... :D
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In old Latin, the letter "U" didn't exist, but the letter "V" did and was used.

Skip ahead many years to when the letter "U" did (and does) exist, but many entities, including some in the US government thought it clever and fashionable to us the letter "V," even though we now have a perfectly functional letter "U."

Or they could have forgotten the U stamp, which makes everything I just said worthless (but none the less fascinating, of course).

For what it's worth, I've been a graphic designer, typographer, calligrapher and student of letter-forms and their origins for many years.
 
After all, we put V and V together to get W and call it double-U.
We use the Roman V for U the same way we use Roman numerals.
 
Or as one of my students said when I asked the other day 'What language did the Romans use?' 'Roman?'


Oh dear God - and these are COLLEGE STUDENTS!


In ten years we will fall to Ethiopia in a bloodless war.

TF
 
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